C .t.} A commestarie v j+onthe a76. yet can there be no foundnes in the faith,becaufe all ofthem arepatched together of fables : topage ouer the former as tooblafphemous to bee once named among Chriflians, thevalename oftheir Aicaton is fuft- a.ofIewea. ciently eletellable. The Iewi¡h fables whereof their Talmud is full we haue feene inpart,befides that their Cabala is ful ofhumane deuifes;but euen in the things which primarily were the Lords owne icaflitutions, they are become the embracersof fables.Ifnow they vrge (as they doe) diflinòtions ofperfons: he iea Jere, not who is oneoutwardor in the letter,but ttom349. beetbat isonewithin. If circumcifion a note ofthat diflinb} ion; now that is circumcifion which is not in the flefh, but in the heart. If dif1inólion of dales ; feeing Chrifl our Paffeouer is facrificed , we mull not keepe s.cor.5.9. feafltwithold leauen, neither with the leaxenedbread ofmalicioufueffe, but with thevnleauened breadoffinceritieandtratb. If dirt;nFtionofmeates; that which goeth into the bellie deftleth not amen: and whatfoeueris fold in the fbambles wee may cate , asking no queflion for confcience fake. 3.0fPapits. For the Popifh fables we neede goe no further then their litres, and legends, of many of which dclufions they are now afhamed. But if we adde their Canons , con1citutions, decrees , and humane traditi= ors (urged as things necetiarie binding the confcience) concerning dayes, meats, garments, orders, and fuch voluntarie worfhip: we might cafily fee their whole religion placed in fuch outwardobferuations;neg lebliog and deprauingwhatfocuer is offubtlance, to the true and fpiri- tuall worfhippeof God ; as though Chrifiian religion flood in things corruptible, or in rhiigs indifferent, or bodilyexercife: and not rather in things fpirituall,neceffarie, and permanent. Hach the holy Giusti laid Rom.ç+.17, in the Scripture that theh`ingdonteofGodicnotmeateanddrinlVe,ó,etrighte- oufnefe,peace, and ioy in theholy Ghofi? and that meat and cloath are for the belly andbacke, andperifh with thevfc, for God (hall defiroy both? Let theblinded Papiti keeps his coard and cowle at his backe , cloath himfelfe with fackecloath all his life, fart fourty daies ifhe can, or rather neuer Bate meate, neuer touch monie, neuer marrie wife, he ¡hall neuer find the kingdomeofGod in thefe ; beeing things whichGodneuer re- quired at his hands,& yet thefe precepts ofmans braise are the rules of ail his religion. But yet here is a goodly thewof wifedome: what is it not profitable to abtlair.e fromflefh euery fryday, and.allLent; that by the one the flefh may be tamed, and by tins other our Lords fufferings remembred? and mull not the Minifler, who is to deliver thebleffed bodieof the Lord be vnlikeother men, yea farce more holy then they, and therefore mua he not hue tingle at home, andbe (mein hallowed garments abroad? But where is the wordof the Lord to free thefe from beeing fables ? The Lord lookethnot towhat we arebent, or canpre- tend,
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