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Ufarpers in the World, both Princes and Prieftsj
have alkdged, for impofing their Hamane Inventions
upon the Confciences of ncten about
divine worfliip? And will Mr. Mm (who hath
dilTented from them about the external modes
of fome parts of inftituted worfliip) take upon
him to juftiBe thofe Men in their fo doing ? Surely
his Brethren have caufe to take it ill at his
hands: For he that builds again the things
he hath deftroyed, makes himfeif a TranfgreP
for.
And I pray coniider. All our Obedience in the
Worfliip ofGod is the Obedience of Faith ^ and
if the Scripture be the Rule of Faith, our Faith
is not in any of ins concerns to be extended
beyond it, no more than the thing to be regulated
is to be extended beyond its Rule.
The Famous B afil co\x\d fay, ^^v^a 'k^l&cj^n
x5 vTipiKpa/icti Kdv^yopU, &c. It hath the manifel!:
guilt of Infidelity and Pride to rejeiH: anything
that is written, or to add or introduce any
thing that is not written. And this is the
fumm of all we contend for.
And in his Epiftle 80. ad Enflath. he rejeds
all pretences ofCuftoms and Ufages of any fore
of Men, and will have all differences tobedeteraiined
by the Holy Scripture.
Chryfoflom in his Hooiily on PJalmsf). fpeaks
after the fame manner: Who is this that proraifes
thefe things ? He anfwers, Pa^d: For we
are not to fay anything without Tellimony, or
upon our meer reafoniiigs : For if aijy thing be
fpoken without Scripture-teftimouy, the minds
of the hearers flaftuate, now afl;eating, anon hefitating-,
fometimes rejetoig what is fpoken as
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