rr.,"S - :rPIP-.ro-wcTrratemacr , C ti A P.2. Epiffle to the Thefaloniant. V E H.1 S. 3, 4, 20, at. a Timo. i. 1.3, 4. and 3.14, t g. Titus 3.9. Galat. t. 8, 9. True, but this do9riine was in part tradita onely, not written. Rem. t Then was Irenw.s and other ancients deceived; whole fentence is, that they wrote the materi- als of what they preached, and left them fo to bee rule of faith. 2 Yet who fo could afl'ure mee of any thing taught by 'Paul, which hee wrote not, I fhould not deny it grea- teR reuerence and credit. Beattus eft dare q i. m accipere, though I read not in Euangelicall Rorie, yet I reuerence as Chrifls (peach, becaufe Luke hash recorded it. And that prophecie of Enoch mentioned by Saint lude, I doubt not to haue beetle his prophecie. But as to the Cardinals rules to trie Apoflolicall traditions, I finde them vncertaine. For how will he allure mee, That any the points betwixt vs controuerfed, and pretended to haue foundation vpon Apo( }oIicall tradition, were vniuerfally receiued by the whole Church? When all ages, haue afforded men molt Orthodoxe, that haue otherwife belieued and prauuifed. Once I am lure, what they wrote, is theirs; ìvhat elfe they fpake, no authoritie can af_ertaine me. / The rule is cer- taine ; they deliuered nothing do&rinall to bee receiued, that is contrariant to what they wrote; for did not the fame fpirit guide their tongue, that their pen ? What now ? When I finde direct, or confequentiail repugnan- cie, and contradiction, twixt their pretended traditions, and writings? Muff I thinke filch traditions Apoflolicall? Heed what is deiiuered by Apoules and Prophets; fith vpon no certainetie thou cantl be refolued, except by their writings, what they deliucr to be obferued, there to hold thee fafl without declining, in all matter of faith, and mo- rail prauife. Lord, that foretitnes had beene fo prouidently heed - full ? How doe I pert Wade my felfe, Antichrill; had beene yet to feeke his faith and religion ? Elfe fo palpable in he- rdic and fuperflition, as neuer to conuey has miry Attie rnyfferie. But whiles men thought to mend by adding to written pteícripts, and ouercreduloufly gaue way to titles Apoflolicall; `:e'_'..0 :,.; : -';5:.`
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