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or choice, but what they had received from
Chrift, they faithfully communicated to the Nations.
And this mull needs be a gr^at? truth,
becaufe Chrift is the only Law-giver to his
Church ^ God hath appointed him to be Head
over all things to the Church : All power is given
to him as Mediator in Heaven and Earthy wc
are to hear him in ail things whatfoever he hath
faid ; Bujheep hear his zmce^ and afiranger they
will notfollow^ for they how not the voice of ft rangers
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are to contend for that Faith (and no other)
which was once delivered to the Saints, noE
what hath been fince brought in by humane Invention,
under the pretence of Decency and
Order j for we are not to add to his Words,
left ^ he reprove us, and we be found Liars.
It was the high Commendation of the Church
at Corinth^ That they kept the Ordinances, as PW
had delivered them, and that they followed him
therein, as he followed Chrift, and we are to'
walk fo, as we have them for an Example
Away therefore with all this pretence of Decency
and Order, where we have ndciier command
nor Example for our Guide, as there is
none in all the Holy Scripture for this mode
of finging which they have fet up*
But I hope it is not yet fo bad with them
as It was with that Enemy of the Cnrillian Rehgion,
Samuel Parker^ D. D. and late Bilhop
pt Oxford^ to fay as he doth in his EtcL Polity
pag, 178. ' That aD the pious Viilani^s chat evet
* have diflurbed the Chriftian World, have
* flieltered themfelvesin this grand Maxime 'that
* Jefus Chrift is the only Law-maker to hh
* Church. And alfo oppoles the Maxime it felf.
But