CHVRCH-CVSTOMES
VINDICATED
.
The
first
Sermon
.
1
COR.
11.16
.
If
any
man
lust
to
bee
contentious
,
Wee
have
no
such
Custome
,
nor
the
Churches
of
God
.
THE
customes
of
the
Church
,
through
the
stubborne
humours
of
contentious
men
,
are
growne
so
obsolete
and
out
of
custome
in
most
places
,
that
I
feare
I
may
bee
thought
to
breake
the
custome
,
while
I
seeke
to
vindicate
and
defend
her
customes
.
But
when
I
looke
back
unto
purer
times
,
and
finde
how
the
Church
could
stand
upon
her
customes
in
the
very
infancy
and
childhood
of
the
Gospell
,
Ioh.
9.23
.
before
the
customes
were
come
to
age
,
I
make
no
doubt
but
the
same
customs
being
grown
at
length
to
mans
estate
,
in
the
ripenesse
,
and
maturity
of
the
Church
,
may
now
have
leave
to
speak
for
themselves
,
at
least
in
their
owne
defence
.
Si
quis
videtur
contentiosus
;
If
any
seeme
,
&c.
Contentions
and
customes
appeare
unto
us
at
the
first
sight
like
two
sturdy
and
valiant
Champions
,
ready
to
assault
each
other
in
a
single
combat
:
Contention
stands
up
like
proud
Goliah
,
swelling
and
powting
against
all
the
customes
of
the
Churches
.
Upon
the
issue
of
this
Skirmish
hangs
all
the
peace
and
liberty
of
the
Church
:
for
if
Contention
win
the
day
,
and
chance
to
prove
maister
of
the
field
,
then
farewell
the
Church
and
all
her
customes
;
but
if
the
Church
prevaile
and
get
the
maistery
,
then
downe
the
winde
goes
contention
,
and
down
goe
they
that
love
contention
.
You
would
be
glad
I
trow
to
see
the
issue
of
this
battell
,
stay
but
a
while
and
stand
your
ground
;
and
when
the
Philistime
hath
brav'd
himselfe
against
the
armies
of
the
living
God
,
you
shall
see
how
little
David
shall
knock
him
downe
,
as
it
were
with
a
stone
taken
from
the
Churches
Scrip.
Non
habemus
consuetudinem
:
Contention
is
the
first
that
makes
the
challenge
,
and
if
you
desire
to
know
the
ground
of
this
deadly
quarrell
;
you
must
be
pleased
to
consider
three
things
.
1.
Time
and
place
where
the
quarrell
first
began
,
and
that
was
in
the
Church
;
in
the
Church
of
Corinth
;
in
her
yong
dayes
,
when
S.
Paul
himselfe
was
yet
alive
.
2.
The
nature
,
and
quality
of
this
contention
:
for
it
was
a
poore
and
slender
quarrell
against
a
Ceremony
,
and
no
more
.
3.
By
whom
the
quarrell
was
begun
,
and
that
's
implied
here
,
to
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
some
busie
fellow
of
a
wrangling
humour
,
that
loved
contention
more
then
peace
.
Loe
this
you
have
for
the
notifying
of
contention
:
and
then
for
the
Churches-customes
you
have
three
like
circumstances
.
1.
The
nature
and
quality
of
the
customes
,
for
wee
must
not
stand
upon
every
custome
,
but
upon
a
decent
and
reverend
custome
.
2.
Who
they
are
that
maintaine
the
customes
;
noted
here
to
be
Churches
of
God
.
3.
Who
were
the
founders
of
the
customes
;
and
they
are
implyed
here
to
bee
the
Apostles
of
Christ
that
could
not
erre
in
doctrine
,
much
lesse
in
the
ordination
of
a
custome
.
These
are
the
chief
heads
both
of
this
custome
,
and
of
that
contention
;
and
when
I
shall
come
in
the
end
to
compare
them
both
together
,
and
to
lay
mouth
to
mouth
,
eyes
to
eyes
,
and
hands
to
hands
:
I
meane
such
a
grave
and
decent
custome
,
against
such
a
slight
and
trifling
quarrell
:
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2
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2
Kings
4.34
.
the
Churches
of
God
that
kept
the
custome
against
that
one
single
Church
that
broke
the
custome
:
3
the
Apostles
of
Christ
the
founders
of
this
custome
,
against
that
one
contentious
man
,
the
ringleader
and
broacher
of
innovation
;
I
shall
thinke
it
fit
to
refer
the
cause
to
your
own
judgement
,
whether
ye
thinke
such
a
custome
maintained
by
all
the
Churches
,
and
allowed
by
the
warrant
of
the
blessed
Apostles
,
be
not
worthy
to
beate
downe
such
a
fond
and
frivolous
quarrell
but
newly
brought
into
the
Church
of
Corinth
,
by
that
filly
sect-master
that
stands
upon
record
for
a
contentious
man
.
Of
all
these
I
shall
have
faire
occasion
to
speak
something
.
And
first
I
must
begin
to
deale
with
contention
,
a
troublesome
and
turbulent
spirit
I
am
like
to
finde
him
,
He
never
appeares
to
us
in
a
still
voice
,
as
the
Lord
appeared
unto
Eliah
;
but
whensoever
he
comes
,
he
comes
in
a
tempest
,
storming
and
blustering
against
all
good
order
,
both
of
Church
and
State
:
Did
you
ever
heare
the
pedigree
of
Contention
?
There
was
a
bastard
begotten
by
anger
,
nursed
by
pride
,
and
maintained
by
wilfull
contradiction
,
and
when
they
came
to
give
him
a
name
,
they
bestowed
upon
him
the
name
of
Contention
.
As
was
the
name
of
the
childe
so
was
his
nature
,
for
a
soone
as
ever
hee
began
to
goe
,
hee
went
backward
like
the
Sea-crab
:
as
soon
as
ever
he
began
to
read
,
he
read
backward
like
the
Hebrewes
:
as
soone
as
ever
hee
began
to
row
,
hee
rowed
backward
evermore
,
against
tide
&
stream
.
Pitty
such
a
crosse
,
disorderly
mate
should
finde
harbour
in
any
civill
society
,
as
a
City
at
unity
.
If
contention
must
needs
bee
,
let
it
bee
sent
to
Bedlem
,
or
Paris-garden
where
it
may
converse
with
none
but
dogs
and
Beares
,
or
men
more
wilde
then
those
salvage
creatures
;
never
let
it
enter
into
Gods
inheritance
,
lest
the
fiends
of
hell
take
more
delight
in
the
quarrels
of
Gods
people
,
then
men
are
wont
to
fancy
to
themselves
when
they
see
the
quarrells
of
dogs
and
beares
.
It
were
to
bee
wished
that
these
discords
of
schisme
and
dissention
,
that
make
musicke
onely
for
the
devill
,
may
never
be
heard
in
the
Church
of
God
:
but
I
feare
me
as
long
as
the
Church
consists
of
men
,
and
men
consist
of
sundry
passions
,
we
shall
hardly
be
free
from
all
contention
.
The
devill
is
growne
such
a
cunning
politician
,
that
when
he
cannot
rob
us
of
our
truth
,
hee
will
doe
the
best
he
can
to
rob
us
of
our
peace
;
and
when
hee
cannot
plucke
up
the
good
wheat
of
wholesome
doctrine
that
is
sowne
in
our
field
by
the
good
seeds-man
,
he
does
all
that
he
can
to
mingle
the
wheat
with
the
tares
and
darnell
of
contention
.
Aug.
epist.
48.
Neque
propter
paleam
relinquam
aream
domini
,
neque
propter
pisces
malos
rumpimus
retia
.
And
what
though
?
shall
we
therefore
forsake
the
good
field
,
and
renounce
the
wheat
of
wholsome
doctrine
because
wee
finde
it
mingled
with
some
cockle
?
Shall
wee
forsake
the
Church
,
and
shipwrack
the
faith
,
and
cast
off
the
truth
,
because
we
cannot
have
it
cleane
from
all
kinde
of
weeds
?
Nay
rather
,
if
we
may
have
the
word
and
Sacraments
as
so
cheape
a
rate
,
and
pay
nothing
for
it
but
a
little
contention
,
let
us
never
complaine
of
a
deare
bargaine
.
Contention
hath
beene
and
will
ever
be
the
unwelcome
companion
of
the
Church
militant
:
Christ
himselfe
came
not
into
the
world
to
bring
peace
,
militant
Church
were
turned
triumphant
.
Take
a
short
survey
of
all
the
Churches
,
whether
Jewish
or
Christian
,
Easterne
or
Westerne
,
ancient
or
moderne
;
and
you
shall
not
finde
any
one
of
them
that
ever
could
free
themselves
from
this
eating
gangrene
of
contention
.
I
am
sure
the
Jewish
Church
had
no
such
priviledge
:
for
as
long
as
she
swarmed
with
sundry
sects
of
Pharisees
,
and
Sadduces
,
&
Essens
,
and
Herodians
,
and
Hemerobaptists
,
lib.
13.
Philo
Iud.
Euseb.
&
aliot
.
In
the
Christian
Chur
:
and
Samaritans
,
and
I
know
not
what
,
that
differed
both
in
course
of
life
,
and
point
of
beliefe
,
how
could
shee
bee
free
from
all
contentions
?
But
it
may
bee
in
the
Christian
Church
there
was
no
contention
for
all
that
:
No
?
does
Epiphanius
reckon
up
no
lesse
then
fourescore
heresies
raging
in
the
Church
of
God
like
the
Bulls
of
Basan
,
and
shall
we
beleeve
there
was
no
contention
all
that
while
?
But
,
say
they
had
some
contentions
in
those
times
betwixt
the
Orthodox
and
the
heretickes
,
yet
I
hope
among
the
Orthodox
themselves
there
was
perfect
union
.
But
whatsoever
you
may
think
of
those
times
,
as
if
they
had
rest
from
all
contention
;
yet
if
you
knew
the
differences
betwixt
the
best
learned
of
those
ages
:
(
.i.
)
Anicetus
and
Polycarpus
,
Chrysostome
and
Epiphanius
,
Ruffinus
,
Stephanus
and
Cyprian
,
Victor
and
the
Easterne
Churches
,
Prosper
and
the
Doctors
of
France
,
and
many
hundreds
more
that
might
be
named
;
you
would
soone
beleeve
that
the
Churches
in
their
times
could
hardly
bee
free
from
all
contention
.
But
what
if
contention
crept
into
the
Church
in
after
ages
,
yet
I
hope
in
the
Apostles
time
,
and
the
Churches
planted
by
their
hands
,
we
shall
not
heare
of
the
least
murmuring
,
or
whispering
of
contention
:
Surely
if
ever
the
Church
were
free
from
all
contention
,
it
is
most
like
to
be
in
those
dayes
of
innocence
;
and
yet
if
you
look
into
1.
Cap.
of
this
our
Epist.
and
the
11.
ver.
yee
shall
heare
S.
Paul
complaine
of
some
contentions
:
It
is
reported
to
me
by
those
of
the
house
of
Cloe
,
that
there
are
contentions
among
you
.
To
heare
of
contentions
among
the
members
of
the
Church
was
a
small
matter
:
but
if
you
looke
into
the
22.
Cap.
of
S.
Luke
ver.
24.
It
makes
mee
wonder
so
much
the
more
why
the
Church
of
Rome
at
this
day
should
stand
so
much
upon
the
unitie
of
the
Church
,
and
beare
us
in
hand
that
their
unity
and
concord
in
religion
is
a
certaine
badge
and
character
of
the
true
Church
.
They
have
found
that
pearle
it
seems
in
the
field
of
their
Church
,
which
could
never
bee
found
in
former
ages
;
and
though
we
sell
all
that
we
have
,
like
the
good
Merchant
in
the
Gospell
,
to
get
possession
of
that
pearle
,
they
will
make
us
beleeve
we
shall
be
gainers
by
the
bargaine
.
It
is
a
good
purchase
indeed
to
buy
truth
at
what
rate
soever
,
but
to
buy
truth
attended
with
unitie
,
were
a
purchase
in
my
minde
beyond
the
rules
of
Numeration
.
But
is
this
purchase
to
be
had
at
Rome
?
Yes
surely
:
for
all
the
members
of
their
Church
are
so
colligated
and
bound
together
in
a
kinde
of
subjection
and
subordination
to
one
head
,
that
you
shall
seldome
heare
of
any
contention
among
them
that
ever
breakes
out
into
open
flames
.
A
happy
Church
they
must
needs
have
,
if
things
be
answerable
to
their
vaunts
,
but
if
it
doe
not
appeare
upon
just
triall
out
of
the
best
Records
of
their
owne
Church
,
Did
you
never
heare
of
any
difference
betwixt
the
Thomists
and
the
Scotists
,
A
goodly
unity
I
durst
to
warrant
you
that
shines
in
the
midst
of
so
many
quarrells
,
and
a
goodly
Church
by
the
same
reason
that
must
be
knowne
by
this
jarring
unity
:
if
they
have
no
better
badge
and
livery
of
their
Church
then
such
a
counterfeit
pretended
unity
,
we
shall
never
have
cause
I
dare
say
either
to
be
fond
of
their
church
,
or
to
be
jealous
of
our
own
.
And
yet
t
is
a
wonder
to
see
with
what
a
face
of
brasse
and
impudence
the
Romanists
of
these
times
are
wont
to
upbraid
us
with
the
quarrells
of
our
Church
,
as
if
Rome
had
engrossed
all
the
unity
:
Your
Church
,
say
they
,
Pacianus
citat
.
à
Bellar
.
Christianus
(
inquit
)
est
mihi
nomen
,
Cat
●olicus
cegnomen
.
Ierom.
cont
.
Lucifer
.
prope
fi●em
.
what
is
it
but
a
beast
of
many
heads
,
patched
up
with
divers
and
sundry
factions
,
while
one
adheres
to
Luther
,
another
to
Calvin
,
a
third
to
Zuinglius
,
another
to
Arminius
,
as
if
we
delighted
more
to
be
called
from
names
of
men
,
then
to
be
called
Christians
from
the
name
of
Christ
,
or
Catholiques
from
the
faith
professed
by
them
.
For
our
parts
be
it
knowne
to
all
the
world
we
hate
to
be
called
from
the
name
of
any
man
be
he
what
he
will
,
yea
though
it
be
the
name
of
Peter
and
Paul
,
we
are
free
enough
from
those
contentions
which
S.
Paul
imputes
to
this
Church
of
Corinth
;
We
know
that
these
were
the
common
darts
which
both
the
Heathens
of
old
,
and
the
Turks
of
latter
times
were
wont
to
cast
against
the
Christian
faith
,
Let
them
free
themselves
from
their
own
contentions
,
and
then
they
may
the
better
object
ours
;
in
the
meane
while
as
long
as
we
see
no
other
remedy
,
we
will
set
us
down
by
the
Church
of
Corinth
,
and
patiently
beare
both
her
lot
and
ours
.
We
can
hardly
look
to
be
in
better
state
then
the
Apostolique
Churches
,
and
if
they
were
faine
to
suffer
contention
,
why
should
we
grudge
to
bear
the
like
?
our
case
can
hardly
be
worse
then
theirs
,
for
they
had
contentions
in
this
ver.
schismes
in
the
18.
ver.
heresies
in
the
19.
ver.
and
therefore
if
all
these
should
fall
to
our
lott
,
(
which
God
of
his
mercy
turne
away
from
us
)
yet
we
have
learned
of
the
blessed
Apostle
not
to
think
strange
of
any
such
tryall
,
as
if
some
new
thing
were
fallen
upon
us
,
but
patiently
to
share
in
that
common
calamity
that
equally
belongs
to
all
the
Churches
.
When
all
is
done
,
the
Church
of
Corinth
shall
be
our
apologie
,
we
suffer
no
more
then
she
hath
done
,
and
seeing
we
are
joyned
with
her
in
the
same
cause
,
let
us
make
enquirie
a
little
further
,
and
perhaps
we
shall
match
her
somewhat
nearer
in
the
speciall
ground
and
reason
of
contention
.
Though
every
Church
hath
some
contention
,
Of
all
the
quarrells
that
ever
were
moved
in
the
Church
,
you
will
think
that
this
in
my
text
was
one
of
the
least
:
Nothing
was
opposed
,
for
for
ought
we
find
,
but
a
bare
ceremony
,
and
the
outward
gesture
in
praying
or
prophesying
was
the
onely
cause
of
this
sharp
contention
.
A
poore
occasion
to
make
a
difference
when
they
were
agreed
upon
the
substance
:
yet
considering
withall
what
mischiefe
may
grow
upon
the
Church
by
the
least
quarrell
once
begun
,
the
Apostle
thinks
it
meet
to
bestir
himselfe
,
and
to
quench
the
fire
of
contention
,
that
it
may
not
break
out
into
greater
flames
.
Our
wise
Apostle
was
not
to
learne
that
a
ceremony
of
it selfe
was
of
little
reckoning
,
but
when
a
ceremony
is
enjoyned
by
lawfull
authority
,
Aug.
de
doct.
Chri.
lib.
4.
he
knew
well
enough
that
obedience
or
disobedience
in
a
small
matter
was
not
to
be
counted
a
small
matter
.
There
is
the
same
reason
of
obedience
or
disobedience
,
whether
in
smaller
or
in
greater
matters
:
for
t
is
not
the
thing
commanded
that
binds
the
conscience
,
but
the
power
from
whence
the
commandement
comes
;
be
the
thing
commanded
never
so
great
,
it
commends
the
obedience
never
the
more
:
be
the
thing
commanded
never
so
small
,
it
cannot
excuse
the
disobedience
.
Christ
commends
the
good
servant
because
he
was
faithfull
in
the
least
things
,
in
eating
an
apple
,
or
gathering
of
sticks
when
t
is
forbidden
,
with
greater
punishments
then
fouler
sins
,
because
it
proceeds
from
meere
wilfulnesse
:
so
the
Apostles
of
Christ
and
their
lawfull
successors
may
safely
punish
the
least
contention
against
a
ceremony
,
when
they
see
it
proceeds
from
meere
stubbornnesse
,
as
well
as
some
greater
and
fouler
sins
that
spring
from
weaknesse
and
infirmity
.
More
danger
there
is
in
this
poore
contention
then
the
common
sort
of
men
doe
commonly
think
,
Pro.
18.19
.
not
onely
because
it
kindles
a
fire
among
brethren
of
the
sam
faith
and
the
same
religion
,
whose
aemulous
vyings
and
mutuall
contestations
among
themselves
cannot
chuse
but
aggravate
and
increase
the
flame
,
but
also
because
t
is
commonly
grounded
upon
I
know
not
what
pretence
of
misguided
conscience
that
makes
the
quarrell
the
more
presumptuous
.
Other
sinnes
,
whether
of
adultery
,
theft
,
or
drunkennesse
,
dare
not
appeare
in
open
light
:
and
if
they
doe
,
you
shall
find
them
ready
to
plead
guilty
:
but
the
sinne
of
schisme
that
spurns
men
on
against
the
orders
of
the
Church
,
is
so
bold
and
sawcy
of
its
owne
nature
,
Cypr.
lib.
3.
ep.
9.
Haec
sunt
initia
haereticorum
,
ut
sibi
placeant
,
et
Praepositum
superbo
tumore
contemnant
.
Psa.
55.
ver.
12.
&
13.
that
it
ever
stands
upon
justification
,
and
being
vainly
past
up
with
selfe-conceit
,
it
dares
out-face
all
authority
.
Other
sinnes
fight
against
the
Church
,
not
directly
,
but
by
way
of
consequence
;
but
this
fights
against
her
with
downright
blows
:
and
therefore
as
the
Prophet
David
,
in
a
figure
of
Christ
,
complains
more
grievously
of
the
plots
of
his
nearest
friends
,
then
of
all
the
treacheries
of
known
foes
;
so
the
Church
of
Christ
his
onely
Spouse
hath
more
cause
to
complaine
of
the
civill
uncivill
wars
of
her
own
children
,
then
of
all
the
oppositions
of
forraigne
enemies
,
that
seek
to
bring
her
into
bondage
.
T
is
a
maxime
agreed
upon
by
weeping
crosse
that
contention
goes
before
destruction
:
there
's
no
State
nor
Kingdome
of
the
world
but
have
made
it
true
by
their
owne
experience
:
and
if
the
Church
of
God
be
divided
against
her selfe
by
sundry
factions
,
and
her
children
like
a
rowted
disordered
Army
begin
to
fall
upon
their
own
fellows
,
what
priviledge
have
we
more
then
others
against
the
generall
sentence
of
our
Saviour
.
A
Kingdome
divided
against
it selfe
cannot
stand
.
Optatus
said
of
the
factions
of
the
Donatists
,
that
were
not
much
unlike
to
these
contentions
,
that
betwixtour
yea
,
and
your
nay
,
the
cause
of
Religion
lyes
a
bleeding
;
and
have
not
we
brought
it
to
the
same
passe
by
our
domesticke
quarrells
among
our selves
,
that
betwixt
the
conformity
of
some
,
and
the
inconformity
of
other
some
,
many
a
Christian
soule
stands
unresolved
,
and
meanes
to
continue
a
meere
neutrall
.
As
long
as
the
languages
are
confounded
,
the
building
of
the
Church
can
never
goe
forward
;
as
long
as
the
ship
is
tost
with
waves
,
many
are
afraid
to
come
a
shipboard
,
some
that
are
without
are
loth
to
come
in
,
and
some
that
are
within
are
loath
to
continue
;
so
the
poore
Church
being
suspected
and
forsaken
on
both
sides
,
is
faine
to
complaine
with
the
Prophet
Ieremie
:
Woe
is
mee
,
that
ever
I
was
made
the
cause
of
contention
.
We
cannot
chuse
but
see
,
unlesse
wee
wilfully
shut
our
eyes
,
Oh
the
day
,
that
ever
religion
should
be
guilty
of
so
much
irreligion
!
O
yee
sonnes
of
men
,
how
long
will
you
love
vanity
,
how
long
will
you
dote
upon
your
owne
misery
?
Are
wee
all
agreed
about
the
garment
,
and
shall
we
differ
about
the
trimming
?
are
wee
agreed
about
the
freehold
,
and
shall
wee
quarrell
about
the
bounds
?
Away
with
those
unkinde
,
Philip.
2.
unhappy
contentions
that
procure
the
losse
and
shame
of
both
sides
,
If
there
be
any
joy
,
if
any
love
,
if
any
compassion
either
to
your selves
,
or
to
the
Church
,
or
to
the
cause
of
reformation
,
fulfill
my
joy
,
and
the
joy
of
our
Apostle
,
and
the
joy
of
the
Church
,
and
the
joy
of
Christ
Jesus
,
and
with
it
the
joy
of
your
owne
soules
,
that
wee
may
heare
no
more
of
these
fond
contentions
.
T
is
a
shame
to
be
seene
in
any
quarrell
against
a
ceremony
,
If
ever
contention
against
a
ceremony
could
threaten
to
bring
us
within
danger
of
sin
,
I
doubt
this
quarrell
in
my
Text
will
trench
hard
upon
it
,
because
it
trenches
so
neare
upon
Apostolique
power
.
The
very
Apostles
of
Christ
had
a
hand
themselves
in
this
holy
custome
;
for
among
some
other
orders
composed
by
them
for
the
furtherance
and
decoration
of
Gods
service
,
they
ordained
this
rule
for
all
the
Churches
,
that
the
men
when
they
came
to
prayer
or
prophecie
should
uncover
their
heads
,
and
the
women
should
veyle
or
cover
their
heads
,
as
oft
as
they
appear'd
in
the
congregation
.
That
this
injunction
was
in
force
in
the
Apostles
time
,
for
ought
I
find
,
no
man
denies
:
yea
some
there
be
that
give
the
reason
of
that
Canon
,
that
the
late
converted
Christians
might
not
fashion
themselves
to
the
customes
of
the
Heathens
,
where
the
men
were
wont
to
sacrifice
with
their
heads
covered
,
and
the
women
with
their
heads
bare
,
and
their
haire
disheveld
,
as
a
greater
signe
and
pledge
of
holinesse
.
Whatsoever
the
reason
were
,
I
am
sure
of
this
,
that
the
one
member
at
least
of
that
reverend
order
,
that
I
mean
that
concernes
the
men
,
is
so
fully
ratifyed
and
confirmed
by
the
Canon
of
our
Church
,
that
no
man
may
presume
to
cover
his
head
during
the
whole
time
of
divine
Service
,
For
the
women
indeed
we
have
no
commandement
in
our
Church
,
for
nature
it self
&
the
rules
of
modesty
have
taught
them
freely
to
yeeld
conformity
.
But
for
the
men
,
at
least
some
of
them
in
some
places
,
where
they
have
beene
traind
in
a
course
of
schisme
,
they
are
so
loath
to
stoop
to
this
Apostolique
order
,
that
the
Church
is
fain
to
interpose
her
power
to
bind
them
to
it
by
a
double
bond
.
That
any
man
covers
of
wilfull
stubbornnesse
against
the
Canon
of
the
Apostle
,
it
were
little
charity
to
beleeve
:
for
my
part
I
rather
impute
it
to
meere
weaknesse
;
and
could
they
be
throughly
resolved
that
the
reason
of
this
Canon
were
yet
in
force
,
I
presume
there
is
none
of
them
all
of
what
sort
soever
,
but
would
thinke
themselves
bound
to
yeeld
conformity
.
They
think
perhaps
that
this
Apostolique
order
may
concern
the
Ministers
of
the
Church
,
it
is
laid
upon
fuch
as
pray
and
prophecie
:
but
by
their
leave
,
if
the
hearing
of
a
Sermon
be
not
prophesying
as
well
as
the
preaching
,
and
that
in
the
sense
and
meaning
of
our
own
Apostle
,
of
praying
and
prophesying
as
well
to
the
women
as
the
men
,
either
to
speak
or
preach
in
the
congregation
?
But
say
it
concerne
the
people
as
well
as
the
Ministers
,
as
being
equally
ingaged
in
praying
and
prophesying
,
yet
perhaps
it
may
lay
a
tye
upon
the
people
of
those
times
,
and
not
upon
the
Churches
in
after
ages
.
seeme
contentious
.
Perhaps
you
may
say
,
this
Apostolique
Canon
may
not
be
sutable
to
these
times
,
no
covering
at
all
,
of
a
coyfe
or
night-cap
in
stead
of
a
hat
(
as
our
Church
hath
dispenced
with
the
Apostles
rule
)
in
case
of
weaknesse
and
infirmity
,
we
shall
never
incur
the
Apostles
censure
,
nor
seem
to
the
Church
to
be
contentious
.
But
the
most
of
our
people
for
ought
I
see
are
ready
to
uncover
in
the
time
of
prayer
,
baring
of
the
head
in
the
time
of
preaching
:
belike
they
are
willing
to
shew
reverence
when
they
speak
unto
God
by
their
earnest
prayers
,
but
they
think
it
too
much
to
shew
the
like
when
God
speaks
to
them
by
his
sacred
ordinance
.
Let
me
aske
them
,
is
it
not
as
great
a
favour
to
receive
a
blessing
,
as
to
crave
it
?
and
shall
we
not
receive
the
blessing
with
as
much
reverence
when
t
is
offered
,
as
wee
would
crave
it
when
t
is
wanting
?
Saint
Paul
for
his
part
makes
no
odds
betwixt
prayer
and
prophesie
:
and
if
any
man
think
that
the
Canon
of
the
Church
will
not
reach
to
both
because
it
mentions
no
more
but
the
whole
service
,
let
him
please
to
compare
the
words
of
the
Canon
to
the
rubrick
of
the
service
book
,
that
the
Sermon
or
exhortation
is
no
other
but
a
part
of
divine
Service
.
There
is
no
dispensation
for
ought
I
can
see
more
for
the
Sermon
then
for
the
prayer
:
5.
Cypr.
ep.
73.
Quale
.
est
ut
quia
hoc
Novatianus
facere
audet
,
nos
putemusnon
esse
saciendum
.
neither
can
I
beleeve
for
mine
own
part
that
any
man
of
reason
or
sound
religion
would
ever
stick
at
this
reverend
order
,
but
that
t
is
the
use
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
with
which
they
dare
not
comply
in
outward
ceremonies
,
for
feare
of
the
danger
of
superstition
.
Indeed
t
is
like
enough
this
Apostolique
order
hath
been
abused
,
and
scarce
can
you
name
any
thing
else
that
hath
not
been
abused
to
superstition
,
yet
when
the
thing
it selfe
is
charged
upon
us
by
the
Apostle
,
August
.
debap
.
con
.
Don
lib.
6
cap.
44
Jpsi
gentiles
sl
quid
rectum
babuerunt
non
improbarunt
sanctipatres
,
et
in
hunc
modum
lib
3.
ca
11.
and
the
superstition
is
brought
upon
it
by
the
fault
of
men
,
we
must
not
presume
for
the
fault
of
men
to
stir
a
duty
of
Saint
Pauls
prescribing
,
but
wee
must
learne
a
better
way
of
reformation
,
to
mend
the
fault
of
our
owne
devising
,
and
let
the
duty
still
remaine
.
To
be
warie
of
superstition
is
a
good
thing
,
but
there
is
another
extreame
to
be
avoided
,
which
religion
hates
as
well
as
that
:
and
if
we
run
so
far
from
superstition
that
wee
fall
into
profanenesse
,
and
think
we
have
never
driven
superstition
far
enough
,
unlesse
we
drive
together
with
it
all
decent
order
from
the
Churth
of
God
,
I
feare
we
shall
bring
a
mischiefe
upon
the
cause
of
religion
,
while
wee
seeke
to
avoid
an
inconvenience
.
Say
the
Lord
hath
forbidden
superstition
,
Psal.
2.11
.
Heb.
12.28
.
&c.
yet
I
trow
he
hath
commanded
reverence
all
along
,
and
if
the
baring
of
the
head
in
the
house
of
God
during
the
time
of
divine
service
be
not
a
signe
of
holy
reverence
,
I
am
yet
to
learne
what
reverence
meanes
.
Sure
we
make
it
a
signe
of
reverence
in
civill
worship
,
for
servants
uncover
to
their
masters
,
children
to
their
parents
,
subjects
to
their
prince
,
yea
and
to
the
chaire
of
his
state
to
,
as
a
type
and
figure
of
his
presence
:
and
will
you
refuse
to
give
the
same
reverence
in
divine
worship
to
the
great
King
of
all
the
earth
,
when
he
claimes
it
of
you
by
the
same
titles
of
respect
,
If
I
be
a
father
,
where
is
my
honour
;
if
I
be
a
Lord
,
where
is
my
reverence
?
You
will
not
come
into
the
court
of
a
Prince
as
Chrysostom
notes
,
but
you
will
compose
your selves
in
gate
,
and
eye
,
and
habit
,
and
gesture
,
Hom.
24.
in
Act.
&
36.
in
1.
Cor.
Idem
Martyr
,
in
loc.
&
Erasm
.
de
morum
civil
.
in
templo
in
huc
modum
:
Si
quis
regem
hominem
alloquuturus
circumstante
procerum
corona
nec
caput
aperiat
,
nec
genu
flectat
,
non
iam
pro
rustico
sed
pro
insano
haberetur
.
least
you
may
offend
in
any
respect
,
and
will
yee
come
into
the
pallace
of
the
great
King
with
wandring
eyes
,
and
mincing
feet
,
and
heads
covered
,
as
if
you
made
no
more
of
the
house
of
God
,
then
of
a
taverne
or
barbars
shop
?
I
heare
good
Iacob
crying
out
when
the
Lord
appeared
to
him
by
the
way
to
Haran
:
[
a
](A10268-e15080-b)
a
Gen.
28.19
,
20.
Lev.
19
30
Exod.
30.18
.
Surely
the
Lord
is
in
this
place
,
and
I
was
not
aware
;
how
fearefull
and
terrible
is
this
place
,
this
is
no
other
but
the
house
of
God
,
and
the
gate
of
heaven
:
and
canst
not
thou
behold
the
presence
of
God
in
the
assemblies
and
congregations
of
his
Saints
,
when
thou
speakest
to
him
by
thy
zealous
prayers
,
or
hee
to
thee
by
his
sacred
word
?
I
heare
the
Lord
charging
the
Jewes
,
that
they
should
reverence
his
very
Sanctuary
,
as
being
the
place
where
the
Lord
appeared
;
and
shall
not
we
reverence
his
word
,
and
his
sacraments
,
and
his
oracles
,
and
his
ordinances
,
when
we
appeare
before
him
in
his
holy
Sanctuary
?
Did
the
wise
King
give
it
in
charge
,
that
wee
should
looke
to
our
feet
when
we
enter
into
Gods
house
,
to
put
off
his
shoes
when
he
appeared
before
the
Lord
,
and
doe
we
thinke
much
to
put
off
our
hatts
?
unto
Dagon
,
and
the
Syrians
so
much
to
their
god
Rimmon
,
Let
me
aske
the
question
with
divine
Salvian
,
Wherefore
do
ye
come
to
the
house
of
God
,
Doe
ye
come
to
pacifie
and
asswage
his
wrath
,
and
doe
yee
kindle
and
provoke
his
wrath
?
Is
it
the
same
work
both
to
honour
God
,
and
dishonour
him
too
?
To
sue
for
his
favour
,
and
set
a
barre
against
his
favour
?
Wilt
thou
presume
to
offer
unto
God
that
surly
service
,
which
thou
wouldst
take
in
scorne
from
thine
owne
servant
?
Must
God
take
that
for
an
honour
to
himselfe
,
which
thou
thy selfe
wouldst
take
for
a
foule
dishonour
?
Must
he
account
it
a
pacification
,
which
thou
thy selfe
wouldst
take
for
a
provocation
?
Away
with
such
a
proud
and
sawcy
submission
,
away
with
such
a
rude
,
unmannerly
service
;
Let
us
never
be
guilty
of
such
dishonour
unto
God
,
Let
us
never
bee
guilty
of
such
dishonour
to
our selves
:
If
we
stand
not
so
much
upon
our
owne
honour
,
yet
take
heed
how
wee
betray
the
honour
of
God
;
if
we
feare
not
so
much
the
censure
of
men
,
how
we
fall
into
the
hands
of
God
:
Let
it
never
be
said
of
the
Christian
religion
,
that
the
heathens
worship
their
owne
handy
works
with
more
reverence
and
devotion
,
then
we
adore
the
maker
of
all
things
:
let
it
never
be
laid
to
the
reformed
Churches
,
that
wee
have
chosen
to
our selves
an
easie
and
slovenly
kinde
of
service
,
to
the
shame
and
dishonour
of
religion
:
If
other
Churches
are
guilty
of
that
fault
,
oh
let
not
us
suffer
for
their
offence
;
if
any
of
our
peevish
brethren
have
offended
,
oh
let
not
our
mother
beare
the
blame
.
Shee
hath
done
what
she
can
for
the
honour
and
reverence
of
her
husband
,
for
shee
hath
made
a
law
to
binde
her
children
,
shee
hath
practised
that
law
in
the
godly
examples
of
her
governours
,
she
hath
censured
the
breach
of
it
in
some
of
her
stubborne
and
rebellious
children
;
and
if
all
this
be
not
enough
to
perswade
reverence
,
what
can
she
doe
more
,
but
give
them
over
to
the
just
censure
of
her
husband
,
who
will
surely
prove
a
sharpe
avenger
upon
the
heads
of
those
that
love
contention
.
We
have
seene
the
ground
of
this
vaine
contention
,
together
with
the
time
it
began
to
hatch
;
That
some
notorious
schismatique
began
this
quarrell
,
we
may
easily
judge
by
S.
Pauls
(
Si
quis
)
no
famous
schisme
ever
began
without
some
head
and
ringleader
of
the
faction
,
yet
because
the
head
of
this
trifling
faction
,
may
seem
to
be
a
man
of
unworthy
parts
,
as
most
of
that
brood
have
ever
beene
,
the
Apostle
would
not
vouchsafe
to
give
him
a
name
,
for
feare
he
should
give
him
too
much
honour
.
All
the
title
he
gives
him
here
is
(
contentiosus
,
a
contentious
man
,
)
to
teach
us
that
whosoever
strives
against
the
orders
of
the
Church
,
specially
those
that
tend
to
reverence
,
hee
may
enjoy
the
name
of
a
contentious
man
,
and
must
not
look
for
a
better
title
.
Whatsoever
may
be
thought
of
other
ceremonies
,
yet
.
I
am
sure
this
quarrell
in
my
text
will
beare
the
title
;
Church
allowes
a
coife
or
nightcay
in
case
of
weaknesse
and
infirmity
,
and
men
,
shall
wilfully
refuse
to
enjoy
that
favour
,
to
pick
a
quarrell
with
the
Church
of
God
;
what
Advocate
will
undertake
to
plead
their
cause
that
they
may
not
stand
upon
record
for
contentious
men
?
I
should
be
loath
to
say
that
the
bare
omission
of
this
order
,
or
any
other
should
conclude
a
man
to
be
contentious
;
Nay
,
S.
Paul
himselfe
doth
not
goe
so
farre
,
till
he
had
shewed
the
ground
of
this
holy
order
:
but
if
any
shall
wilfully
oppose
themselves
after
lawfull
warning
and
instruction
,
then
we
have
our
warrant
from
the
blessed
Apostle
to
write
them
downe
for
contentious
men
.
To
seeme
contentious
is
a
small
matter
,
but
S.
Paul
himselfe
goes
a
great
deale
further
,
and
sets
him
downe
to
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
is
to
say
,
a
lover
of
contention
,
as
if
he
loved
contention
as
he
loved
his
life
,
and
doted
upon
it
as
the
wanton
dotes
upon
his
mistresse
.
We
know
it
is
one
thing
to
fall
into
contention
,
and
another
thing
to
fall
in
love
with
contention
it selfe
:
with
the
love
of
contention
is
such
a
fearefull
sicknesse
,
and
frenzie
of
the
soule
,
that
it
seemes
to
be
past
all
hope
of
cure
.
Where
this
love
of
contention
is
,
there
is
much
transgression
,
Nay
there
is
a
whole
swarme
of
ugly
vices
,
there
is
envy
,
there
is
pride
,
there
is
tumult
,
there
is
malice
,
there
is
revenge
,
there
is
murther
,
there
is
sedition
,
there
is
treason
,
there
is
schisme
,
there
is
heresie
,
there
is
all
things
;
as
if
all
the
maladies
of
the
soul
were
epitomized
and
summed
up
in
this
word
,
(
contentious
)
Take
but
a
view
of
this
one
contention
in
my
text
,
and
see
what
bordering
mischiefe
hangs
upon
it
:
the
Apostle
is
so
well
acquainted
with
all
the
neighborhood
,
[
*
](A10268-e15890-b)
*
Viz.
18
,
&
19.
verses
he
makes
it
shake
hands
with
schisme
and
heresie
,
as
if
they
both
tooke
head
from
the
love
of
contention
.
Perhaps
the
neighborhood
of
schisme
will
hardly
stagger
us
,
for
many
thinke
it
a
title
of
honour
,
and
when
they
suffer
in
that
cause
,
they
thinke
they
suffer
as
a
Christian
:
but
S.
Paul
that
was
better
acquainted
with
the
nature
of
schisme
,
is
bold
to
rank
it
with
the
foulest
sinnes
that
can
be
named
,
Adultery
,
Murther
,
Idolatry
,
Witchcraft
,
and
such
like
;
and
S.
Augustine
will
tell
us
,
if
wee
can
beleeve
him
,
that
when
it
is
put
on
with
wilfull
violence
,
and
maintained
with
heat
of
pharisaicall
pride
,
it
proves
no
lesser
sinne
in
the
sight
of
God
,
then
either
Adultery
,
Theft
,
or
Murther
,
and
hath
beene
commonly
revenged
with
greater
punishments
.
If
you
are
not
stirred
with
the
danger
of
schism
that
borders
so
neare
upon
the
love
of
contention
;
what
doe
you
thinke
of
the
nature
of
heresie
that
is
commonly
entailed
to
the
sin
of
schisme
?
Surely
the
Apostle
had
never
coupled
heresies
and
schismes
both
together
,
but
that
he
knew
well
enough
that
schisme
is
nothing
else
but
a
greene
heresie
newly
hatcht
in
the
Church
of
God
,
and
heresie
nothing
else
,
but
a
growne
schisme
that
is
come
to
ripenesse
and
perfection
.
There
is
neither
of
them
both
but
spring
from
the
same
fountaine
,
for
contention
is
the
head
of
both
the
factions
,
and
as
it
spurs
on
the
one
with
earnest
violence
against
the
discipline
of
the
Church
;
so
it
eggs
on
the
other
with
headstrong
fury
against
the
doctrine
of
the
Church
.
Though
every
contentious
man
bee
neither
a
schismatick
,
nor
an
heretick
,
yet
he
hath
a
disposition
to
be
made
both
,
he
runnes
so
fierce
upon
a
full
carere
of
headstrong
passion
,
like
a
man
that
gallops
downe
a
hill
,
that
hee
can
hardly
take
up
and
stay
his
pace
untill
he
come
to
the
bottome
of
heresie
.
No
man
becomes
an
hereticke
on
a
suddaine
,
but
windes
into
it
by
certaine
steps
;
and
loe
the
staires
are
set
by
the
blessed
Apostle
:
First
contention
,
in
this
verse
;
then
schisme
in
the
18.
then
heresie
in
the
19.
to
teach
us
that
if
we
desire
to
avoid
heresie
,
we
must
first
begin
to
cut
off
schisme
,
and
if
we
desire
to
flye
the
danger
of
schisme
,
wee
must
first
begin
to
strike
at
contention
.
These
waters
of
contention
must
be
stopped
in
the
first
breach
,
These
Bab
lonish
brats
must
be
dashed
against
the
walls
,
This
Cockatrices
egge
must
be
cracked
in
the
shell
,
that
it
may
not
bring
forth
a
flying
serpent
.
Oh
who
will
take
these
foxes
,
these
young
foxes
in
the
neast
,
that
they
may
not
infest
the
tender
grapes
!
Oh
who
will
quench
these
coales
of
dissention
,
that
they
may
not
increase
to
a
greater
flame
.
Stand
to
your
tackle
O
yee
Champions
of
the
Lord
,
and
let
not
the
enemy
get
ground
upon
you
:
If
it
be
possible
,
as
much
as
in
you
lies
have
peace
with
all
men
:
If
discord
arise
betwixt
man
and
man
,
let
it
never
incroach
upon
Gods
inheritance
,
Behold
how
good
and
joyfull
it
is
brethren
to
live
together
in
unity
:
O
blessed
Peace
,
wee
are
all
thy
clyents
;
nothing
can
comfort
us
without
thy
company
,
Pray
for
the
peace
of
Ierusalem
;
they
shall
prosper
that
love
thee
,
peace
bee
within
thy
walls
,
and
plenteousnesse
within
thy
pallaces
:
for
my
brethren
and
companions
sake
,
I
cannot
chuse
but
wish
thy
peace
.
Let
every
one
bestirre
himselfe
in
the
Lords
worke
,
as
it
were
in
a
time
of
common
danger
;
one
to
speake
for
peace
,
another
to
labour
for
peace
,
another
to
fight
for
peace
,
another
to
pray
for
peace
,
that
so
by
the
blessing
of
God
upon
our
joynt
endeavours
,
we
may
live
to
see
the
happy
greeting
and
salutation
of
the
Psalmist
,
Mercy
and
truth
shall
meet
together
,
righteousnesse
and
peace
have
kissed
each
other
.
Truth
shall
bud
on
t
of
the
earth
,
and
righteousnesse
shall
look
downe
from
heaven
:
The
Lord
shall
shew
his
loving
kindnesse
,
and
our
land
shall
give
her
increase
:
Righteousnesse
shall
goe
before
him
,
and
he
shall
direct
our
goings
in
the
way
.
Even
so
be
it
:
Lord
say
Amen
.
CHVRCH-CVSTOMES
VINDICATED
.
The
second
Sermon
.
1
COR.
11.16
.
If
any
man
lust
to
bee
contentious
,
Wee
have
no
such
Custome
,
nor
the
Churches
of
God
.
IN
this
very
place
upon
the
like
occasion
about
five
years
since
,
we
made
an
entrance
upon
this
theame
,
and
being
now
pressed
againe
upon
the
same
service
,
I
thought
my selfe
directed
and
led
by
the
hand
to
the
further
explanation
of
the
same
Scripture
,
that
as
I
spake
before
you
at
that
time
of
the
contentions
.
of
the
Church
that
let
themselves
against
the
customes
,
so
now
I
may
speak
before
you
of
the
Churches
customes
,
that
strenuously
oppose
against
contention
.
What
I
then
delivered
concerning
contention
,
I
will
not
call
to
your
mind
againe
,
I
desire
that
custome
being
defendant
may
have
a
fair
and
legall
hearing
,
as
well
as
contention
that
was
the
plaintife
in
the
cause
.
Whether
any
such
spirits
live
amongst
us
that
deserve
the
title
of
contentious
,
I
could
not
say
,
nor
yet
can
:
for
my
part
I
confesse
I
know
of
none
,
neither
doe
I
speak
to
gall
any
,
I
did
but
onely
put
a
case
as
S.
Paul
does
,
If
you
know
of
any
contentious
men
what
ever
they
be
,
You
must
be
sure
to
use
all
gentle
meanes
,
before
you
come
to
sharpnesse
and
severity
:
for
many
will
lead
,
that
will
not
drive
,
and
yeeld
themselves
to
a
gentle
entreaty
,
that
will
not
be
forced
by
compulsion
.
You
shall
do
well
in
the
first
place
to
set
before
them
your
own
example
,
for
so
the
Apostle
doth
in
the
1.
ver.
You
may
take
occasion
to
commend
them
for
their
zeale
and
strictnesse
in
some
thing
else
;
for
so
the
Apostle
hath
taught
you
,
ver.
2.
You
must
not
faile
to
instruct
them
in
the
meaning
and
signification
of
the
ceremonies
,
for
so
the
Apostle
taught
you
,
ver.
3.
What
shall
I
say
?
you
may
perswade
them
by
reason
,
by
authority
,
by
decency
,
by
nature
it selfe
,
for
none
of
these
hath
Saint
Paul
omitted
,
and
if
all
this
be
not
able
to
perswade
(
for
who
can
perswade
a
contentious
man
,
you
shall
not
perswade
though
you
doe
perswade
,
not
perswade
his
practice
I
meane
,
though
you
perswade
and
convict
his
conscience
)
then
you
must
beare
him
downe
with
the
Churches
custome
,
and
tell
him
plainly
to
his
face
that
the
customes
of
the
Church
must
stand
in
force
maugre
the
spight
of
contentious
men
.
The
power
of
custome
no
doubt
is
great
,
and
that
of
the
Church
not
least
of
all
,
but
lest
I
may
be
thought
to
presse
the
custome
before
I
have
taught
you
to
understand
the
custome
,
you
shall
give
mee
leave
to
speak
something
concerning
the
theorie
of
the
custome
,
that
so
I
may
rise
with
the
more
force
to
the
practice
and
observation
of
the
custome
.
While
I
entreat
of
Church
order
,
me
thinks
I
am
bound
to
keep
order
,
and
because
the
nature
of
the
subject
will
scarce
afford
any
quaint
order
,
I
will
content
my selfe
with
a
plaine
method
.
Three
things
there
be
that
offer
themselves
.
-
1.
The
use
of
the
Church
in
having
of
customes
.
-
2.
The
right
of
the
Church
in
making
of
customes
.
-
3.
The
power
of
the
Church
in
pressing
of
customes
.
For
the
custome
,
Church
of
Corinth
:
2.
there
he
commends
their
zealous
care
,
because
they
had
kept
the
most
of
them
.
3.
and
then
he
condemns
their
halting
obedience
,
because
they
had
failed
in
some
particulars
.
What
those
ordinances
were
is
all
the
matter
that
concerns
us
,
and
because
there
is
mention
made
of
one
or
two
,
and
the
Apostle
tells
the
reason
of
them
,
wee
must
judge
of
the
Lion
by
his
paw
,
and
guesse
that
the
rest
were
all
of
the
same
stamp
,
being
all
commended
at
one
time
to
one
and
the
selfe
same
Church
of
Corinth
.
What
our
Apostle
meant
by
his
ordinances
,
ver.
2.
and
by
his
orders
,
ver.
ult.
the
same
he
meanes
by
his
customes
here
:
all
matters
of
rite
and
outward
ceremony
annexed
to
the
preaching
of
the
Word
and
administration
of
the
Sacraments
,
not
as
parts
of
Gods
holy
worship
,
but
as
appendices
thereunto
onely
for
the
order
of
Gods
house
,
and
disposition
of
his
service
.
Such
were
the
customes
of
the
Church
of
Corinth
,
outward
gesture
,
whether
it
be
kneeling
,
standing
,
bowing
,
crossing
,
uncovering
,
or
whatsoever
else
of
the
same
alloy
,
as
they
were
freely
used
in
the
Church
of
Corinth
,
so
they
must
needs
be
allowed
in
every
age
in
all
the
assemblies
of
the
Christians
.
You
shall
never
heare
of
any
famous
Church
since
the
Apostles
time
that
hath
not
freely
enjoyed
some
customes
of
this
kind
;
and
you
shall
never
reade
of
any
learned
orthodox
father
since
the
Apostles
time
that
ever
oppugned
the
use
of
these
customes
.
In
the
primitive
Church
.
August
.
ep.
118.
ad
Ian.
Amb.
in
4.
Ephes.
Socra
.
hist.
li.
5.
ca.
22.
z●zomen
.
li.
7.
ca.
9.
Tertul.
de
veland
.
vir
.
I
could
easily
shew
you
upon
good
authority
that
all
the
ancient
Churches
had
their
severall
customes
,
and
that
while
they
enjoyed
the
same
faith
,
and
which
is
more
to
be
observed
and
admired
,
the
difference
and
contrarietie
of
their
customs
did
neither
dissolve
the
bond
of
charity
,
nor
disturb
the
unity
of
religion
.
The
Apostolique
Churches
had
their
customes
to
,
yea
,
for
ought
we
know
,
severall
customes
,
yet
all
by
Saint
Pauls
free
allowance
:
contentious
men
would
faine
keep
up
,
yet
withall
hee
seemes
to
imply
by
way
of
concession
,
that
they
had
some
customes
of
another
kind
,
which
he
would
not
suffer
to
be
borne
downe
,
by
the
heat
of
wilfull
opposition
.
Those
customes
what
ever
they
were
,
were
not
onely
allowed
to
the
Church
of
Corinth
,
one
Church
,
but
in
the
plurall
number
,
as
of
many
.
And
if
the
Churches
in
the
purest
times
had
all
their
customes
,
and
those
in
the
Apostles
time
their
customes
to
,
I
wonder
why
the
Churches
in
these
times
,
and
the
Church
of
England
among
the
rest
,
the
gracious
Mother
of
us
all
,
may
not
bee
quietly
suffered
to
enjoy
her
customes
.
Were
the
ceremonies
and
orders
of
the
church
an
ornament
to
religion
in
the
Apostles
dayes
,
and
are
they
now
become
in
these
latter
times
a
stain
and
blemish
to
religion
?
had
the
Churches
of
God
their
earerings
,
their
bracelets
,
and
their
jewels
in
the
nonage
and
childhood
of
religion
,
and
must
they
now
be
stript
of
all
in
the
growth
and
ripenesse
of
the
gospell
?
Alas
poore
mother
,
what
hast
thou
done
to
be
so
shamefully
used
of
thine
own
children
?
alas
good
children
,
what
doe
you
meane
to
offer
such
wrong
to
your
deare
mother
?
Did
David
bring
a
scorne
upon
his
person
when
hee
uncovered
himselfe
before
his
subjects
,
Cato
Vtican
draw
a
scorne
upon
his
justice
when
hee
went
to
his
pretorian
seat
without
his
robes
,
and
may
not
we
bring
the
like
upon
Gods
service
,
if
we
should
repaire
to
the
seat
of
God
in
common
garments
?
I
beseech
you
for
the
honour
of
God
,
for
the
honour
of
religion
for
the
honour
of
your selves
,
think
upon
your
bold
and
rash
adventures
:
it
is
not
the
custome
she
regards
so
much
as
your
obedience
to
the
custome
:
and
if
you
be
so
stiffe
and
cruell
to
your
mother
,
that
she
may
not
enjoy
her
ancient
customes
,
why
should
she
allow
your
ancient
discipline
(
as
you
call
it
)
which
you
can
never
demand
upon
better
warrant
?
You
say
the
Apostles
had
the
Discipline
,
but
we
are
sure
of
this
,
they
had
the
customes
,
and
if
you
seeke
to
rob
us
of
those
rites
which
we
know
the
Apostles
once
delivered
,
why
should
we
give
way
to
your
new
pretended
forme
of
Geneva
discipline
,
which
I
doubt
the
Apostles
never
heard
of
?
Shew
us
that
warrant
for
your
discipline
,
as
wee
have
shewed
you
for
our
customes
,
and
wee
shall
have
cause
to
hearken
to
you
:
In
the
meane
while
wee
have
right
enough
to
enjoy
our
ceremonies
by
the
Apostles
leave
if
not
by
yours
;
and
though
you
thinke
it
a
ragge
of
Rome
,
and
a
relique
of
Popery
and
superstition
;
yet
we
shall
rejoyce
and
triumph
at
all
your
taunts
,
as
long
as
we
can
say
with
the
blessed
Apostle
,
habemus
consuetudinem
,
wee
have
a
custome
,
&c.
To
have
a
custome
is
not
much
,
No
man
heares
of
the
customes
of
the
Church
for
the
ordering
and
disposing
of
Gods
service
,
but
presently
he
begins
to
examine
our
Patent
,
and
to
renew
the
question
of
those
Priests
and
Elders
,
Qua
potestate
?
By
what
authoritie
doe
you
these
things
,
and
who
gave
you
that
authority
?
The
Church
I
trow
will
doe
nothing
without
a
warrant
,
and
if
shee
have
that
warrant
from
her
husband
,
bequeathed
unto
her
in
his
Testament
,
reade
us
the
Will
and
it
sufficeth
;
But
if
shee
take
her
power
from
the
will
of
man
,
or
from
the
favour
of
Princes
,
or
from
the
authoritie
of
her
governours
;
then
you
must
give
us
leave
to
put
in
a
caveat
,
untill
it
be
tryed
by
the
Law
.
Loe
this
is
the
plea
of
all
the
sectaries
in
the
world
,
Calv.
adver
.
Anabapt
.
[
Shew
us
your
ceremonies
in
the
word
of
God
and
we
shall
be
willing
to
obey
]
and
it
prevailes
the
more
with
many
a
man
,
because
it
seemes
to
give
to
the
written
word
:
but
if
it
appeare
upon
just
tryall
that
the
word
of
God
(
with
honour
and
reverence
be
it
spoken
)
was
never
constituted
as
the
judge
for
the
speciall
designation
of
particular
ceremonies
;
then
wee
come
upon
them
,
like
the
strong
man
armed
in
the
Gospell
,
that
take
away
their
weapons
wherein
they
trust
,
and
liave
them
nothing
to
object
.
Whilest
I
take
upon
me
to
make
this
good
,
rule
of
faith
and
manners
,
and
it
was
the
only
scope
of
the
holy
Apostles
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to
leave
a
perfect
record
of
all
those
things
that
might
essentially
conduce
to
our
salvation
:
For
other
accidentall
adventitious
circumstances
that
were
no
part
of
the
service
of
God
,
but
onely
an
ornament
to
the
service
,
it
seemed
not
good
to
the
Spirit
of
God
that
they
should
passe
by
the
same
Patent
.
Well
may
they
passe
in
generall
tearmes
(
as
many
things
are
conveyed
in
every
deed
under
the
name
of
the
appurtenances
)
but
they
are
never
expressed
in
that
gracious
Patent
by
any
speciall
intimation
.
Well
may
they
belong
to
those
traditions
which
the
Apostle
delivered
by
word
of
mouth
,
but
they
can
be
no
part
of
that
holy
tradition
which
he
delivered
to
the
Church
by
his
written
Epistle
.
Well
may
you
referre
them
to
those
rituall
orders
which
our
Apostle
promised
to
compose
when
he
came
to
Corinth
,
I
have
received
from
the
Lord
.
The
truth
is
,
all
that
I
can
finde
in
the
new
Testament
concerning
ceremonies
,
is
nothing
else
but
a
generall
warrant
,
that
you
have
in
expresse
tearmes
:
1
Car.
14.40
.
That
all
things
bee
done
decently
,
and
According
to
order
;
but
for
the
speciall
practisie
and
application
of
this
order
;
whether
this
or
that
be
more
agreeable
to
the
rule
,
there
the
word
is
so
mute
and
●●lent
,
that
you
〈◊〉
finde
the
least
title
.
No
doubt
the
Apostles
composed
some
speciall
orders
:
Churches
observed
what
he
delivered
;
and
if
〈◊〉
of
those
can
bee
found
in
〈◊〉
Scriptures
,
why
should
we
look
for
a
speciall
warrant
for
the
ordering
and
disposition
of
things
indifferent
.
If
the
Churches
were
bound
to
those
strait
conditions
,
Cartwright
himselfe
,
Iewish
Church
,
that
shee
had
many
and
sundry
customes
,
at
least
twenty
for
our
one
,
about
sacrificing
,
and
preaching
,
and
burying
,
and
marrying
,
and
fasting
,
&c.
which
were
no
where
expressed
in
the
law
of
Moses
.
Whether
the
Christian
Church
had
the
same
liberty
no
man
can
doubt
that
hath
read
any
thing
;
for
beside
the
records
of
the
ancient
Fathers
,
who
give
us
some
hints
of
sundry
customes
about
prayer
,
and
baptisme
,
and
singing
of
Psalmes
,
and
celebration
of
Easter
,
which
I
could
never
finde
in
the
word
of
God
:
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.
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lib.
de
corona
militis
.
Tertullian
for
his
part
is
resolute
and
peremptory
upon
his
own
knowledge
,
that
for
matter
of
rite
and
outward
order
,
Si
legem
expost●●es
scriptu●●r
〈◊〉
i●venies
nu●●am
:
If
you
looke
for
the
Law
of
the
word
of
God
,
you
shall
be
sure
to
finde
none
.
But
to
shew
this
liberty
of
the
Church
in
some
particulars
.
Where
can
you
finde
in
the
holy
Scriptures
that
we
ought
to
pray
standing
on
the
Lords
day
?
yet
that
was
the
custome
of
the
ancients
for
a
certaine
season
,
to
preserve
the
memory
of
the
resurrection
.
Where
can
you
shew
in
the
word
of
God
that
we
ought
to
communicate
every
day
?
yet
that
was
the
use
in
the
ancient
Church
,
Where
doe
you
reade
in
the
word
of
God
that
you
ought
to
receive
the
Communion
fasting
?
yet
that
was
the
universal
custom
of
all
the
Church
in
Saint
Augustines
time
,
To
be
short
,
if
you
think
the
letter
of
the
word
be
so
requisite
to
every
custome
,
you
were
best
to
survey
the
writings
of
the
Apostles
,
and
see
what
order
you
can
find
for
standing
holydayes
:
what
speciall
warrant
for
set
fasts
upon
certaine
dayes
:
what
expresse
charge
to
keep
the
first
day
of
the
week
for
the
Christian
Sabbath
:
baptize
a
young
Infant
:
I
doubt
you
will
find
no
more
but
a
generall
warrant
for
any
of
these
,
though
they
have
been
constantly
observed
in
all
ages
:
and
if
every
of
these
have
been
held
by
custome
,
being
onely
grounded
upon
the
generall
warrant
of
the
Scriptures
,
and
deduced
from
thence
by
good
consequence
without
any
speciall
intimation
,
why
should
we
be
tyed
to
a
speciall
order
for
the
ruling
and
disposing
of
every
ceremony
?
If
the
speciall
warrant
of
the
Word
be
so
necessary
,
you
were
best
to
blame
the
Apostles
of
Christ
,
Instit.
li.
4.
●a
.
10.
sect.
30.
because
they
forgot
to
entreat
of
particular
rites
:
and
if
a
generall
warrant
be
not
sufficient
,
you
were
best
to
blame
the
Churches
of
God
,
because
they
took
too
much
upon
them
.
For
the
Apostles
,
first
,
you
cannot
blame
them
;
for
Calvin
himselfe
can
tell
you
that
they
had
no
commission
from
the
Lord
to
set
downe
a
forme
of
outward
discipline
;
inasmuch
as
he
foresaw
how
that
depended
upon
the
state
of
the
times
,
neither
could
he
judge
any
one
forme
to
be
agreeable
to
all
people
.
He
knew
well
enough
that
the
Church
was
subject
to
waxes
and
wanes
,
to
fulls
and
changes
,
and
vicissitudes
;
and
therefore
as
a
rare
and
cunning
workman
can
hardly
make
a
garment
for
the
moone
,
as
Plutarch
notes
,
that
should
equally
fit
her
at
all
seasons
,
as
well
in
the
new
as
in
the
full
,
no
more
could
the
Apostles
judge
any
one
form
of
unchangeable
custome
to
be
agreeable
to
all
times
and
the
various
conditions
of
all
people
.
But
then
perhaps
you
will
blame
the
Church
because
she
presumes
to
run
of
her selfe
without
a
speciall
commission
for
every
custome
:
No
surely
,
but
where
the
Word
of
God
is
dumbe
and
silent
,
there
the
voice
of
the
Church
must
be
attended
:
In
this
case
the
very
silence
of
the
word
gives
consent
that
the
cause
belongs
to
another
court
:
and
seeing
the
word
is
silent
concerning
ceremonies
,
and
speaks
nothing
of
them
in
explicite
termes
,
where
may
we
looke
for
a
certaine
direction
and
resolution
in
that
case
,
but
from
the
power
of
the
Church
,
and
from
the
authority
of
her
pastors
?
Saint
Augustine
being
asked
his
opinion
concerning
a
custome
used
in
his
time
,
takes
occasion
to
answer
in
briefe
,
not
onely
for
that
,
but
for
all
others
of
the
same
stamp
,
that
where
the
Word
of
God
determines
no
certainty
,
there
the
custome
of
the
Church
,
and
the
constitutions
of
her
Pastors
are
to
be
taken
for
a
law
.
That
this
was
the
generall
judgement
of
all
the
Churches
in
all
ages
,
if
any
man
doubt
,
let
him
reade
the
Canons
of
the
Councels
:
Church
had
power
of
things
indifferent
.
There
is
no
Divine
of
our
owne
side
of
any
note
that
stick
at
this
power
,
Beza
,
Bucer
,
Zuinglius
,
Chemnitius
,
Peter
Martyr
,
and
generally
all
the
Worthies
of
these
latter
times
that
freely
allow
it
with
one
consent
,
you
shall
take
the
opinion
of
Calvin
,
one
for
all
,
who
sets
it
down
for
a
certaine
rule
upon
the
light
he
drew
from
this
present
Cap.
that
every
Church
of
what
place
soever
may
safely
compose
such
a
forme
of
discipline
,
as
may
be
most
agreeable
to
it selfe
,
because
the
Lord
therein
hath
prescribed
no
certainty
.
The
truth
is
,
the
Apostle
himselfe
is
so
cleare
in
this
,
that
no
man
can
make
any
further
doubt
:
for
when
he
seeks
to
suppresse
an
upstart
custome
by
a
(
non
habemus
talem
,
)
and
grounds
himselfe
upon
this
reason
,
because
they
nor
the
Churches
had
none
such
,
what
doth
he
but
inferre
by
way
of
consequence
,
that
the
practice
of
the
Church
;
and
determination
of
her
Pastors
,
is
warrant
enough
for
any
ceremony
.
It
makes
me
wonder
the
more
,
and
who
doth
not
wonder
at
the
froward
humour
of
some
peevish
Novelists
,
that
think
all
the
practice
of
the
Church
in
things
indifferent
,
to
be
nothing
else
but
usurpation
,
and
all
her
decent
and
reverend
customes
that
serve
for
the
furtherance
of
GODs
service
to
bee
nothing
else
but
a
meere
wil-worship
.
Their
spight
is
so
great
against
the
present
government
,
because
it
crosses
their
selfe-will'd
humours
,
that
they
will
scarce
allow
that
power
to
the
Church
in
the
meanest
things
,
that
every
Church-warden
and
meane
Artificer
would
soon
challenge
,
if
they
might
be
left
to
their
owne
liberty
.
Belike
the
Seers
of
the
Lord
are
become
blind
,
that
they
cannot
discerne
the
meanest
things
;
or
else
the
stewards
of
the
Lord
are
become
unfaithfull
,
that
they
may
not
be
trusted
with
the
poorest
ceremony
.
But
well
fare
the
good
and
courteous
Samaritan
;
he
was
not
halfe
so
strait
to
the
good
Inkeeper
when
he
gave
him
the
care
of
the
wounded
traveller
in
the
Gospell
,
so
willing
was
he
to
enlarge
his
favour
,
that
beside
the
two
pence
hee
left
to
discharge
the
reckoning
,
hee
gave
him
leave
to
spend
more
,
and
to
runne
upon
the
score
till
his
next
returne
.
No
doubt
a
large
allowance
given
to
a
stranger
,
but
if
we
be
the
wounded
travellers
,
as
indeed
we
are
,
that
unhappily
miscarried
in
Adams
sinne
,
and
if
the
two
pence
he
left
us
to
discharge
the
reckoning
may
seeme
to
allude
,
as
most
expound
it
,
to
the
two
Tables
of
the
Testament
,
I
wonder
what
course
we
may
take
to
spend
the
overplus
that
he
may
allow
it
at
his
comming
.
In
necessary
expences
for
food
or
physick
wee
need
not
spend
above
our
two
pence
:
in
points
of
faith
and
works
of
supererrogation
,
we
must
not
spend
above
our
allowance
:
perhaps
we
may
spend
somewhat
more
to
advance
the
honour
of
the
good
Samaritan
:
and
if
we
spend
the
overplus
in
his
honour
for
the
furtherance
and
advancement
of
his
service
,
I
make
no
doubt
when
he
comes
againe
to
take
the
account
of
all
our
expences
,
he
will
not
stick
to
allow
the
overplus
,
with
an
ego
reddam
,
I
will
pay
it
.
But
they
may
chance
to
say
,
Con.
Tridér
.
decret
.
1.
Se●●
.
4.
Paripietatis
affectu
traditiones
una
cum
libris
veteris
&
novi
Testamenti
suscipimus
.
this
faire
allowance
given
to
the
Church
,
may
make
too
much
for
the
Church
of
Rome
,
that
makes
the
voice
of
the
Church
,
the
voice
of
God
,
and
equalls
the
power
of
her
owne
traditions
with
the
peerelesse
authority
of
the
written
word
.
And
what
if
some
offend
in
excesse
and
lavishnesse
,
must
we
therefore
offend
in
defect
and
want
?
what
if
they
give
the
Church
too
much
,
must
we
give
too
little
or
nothing
at
all
?
what
if
they
straine
the
power
of
the
Church
,
even
to
points
of
doctrine
,
and
articles
of
faith
,
shall
wee
abridge
and
scant
her
power
,
that
shee
may
not
reach
to
points
of
discipline
?
Nay
rather
let
the
Scripture
enjoy
her
right
in
matter
of
faith
,
and
the
Church
her
interest
in
matter
of
custome
:
that
's
a
priviledge
given
to
the
Scripture
,
this
a
permission
left
unto
the
Church
:
He
that
is
Lord
of
all
,
may
doe
what
he
will
with
his
owne
goods
,
whether
hee
give
more
or
lesse
to
the
sacred
Scripture
,
what
is
it
to
thee
,
Sume
quod
tuum
est
,
&
vade
.
O
Church
,
take
thine
owne
,
and
go
thy
way
,
thou
hast
power
enough
to
use
a
ceremony
,
thou
hast
power
enough
to
make
a
ceremony
;
let
us
now
proceed
a
little
further
,
and
see
what
power
thou
hast
to
presse
a
ceremony
.
The
making
of
a
ceremony
is
not
much
,
But
if
you
give
us
leave
to
make
a
custome
,
and
give
us
no
power
to
presse
the
custome
,
you
doe
as
much
in
effect
,
as
if
you
gave
us
a
gift
with
one
hand
,
and
sought
with
the
other
to
snatch
it
from
us
.
Saint
Ierome
gives
counsell
to
Lucinius
,
that
all
the
customes
of
the
Church
,
that
were
no
prejudice
to
the
faith
,
should
be
strictly
observed
:
and
S.
Paul
is
so
stiffe
for
the
custome
here
,
that
he
will
not
suffer
it
to
bee
overborne
by
the
stubborne
humour
of
contentious
men
.
Now
if
the
customes
had
such
a
stroke
in
the
first
beginning
and
infancy
of
the
Gospell
,
when
they
could
not
be
of
many
yeeres
standing
,
what
power
may
belong
unto
them
in
these
latter
times
,
being
now
confirmed
by
long
use
,
whereby
they
are
become
the
more
a
custome
?
There
is
no
company
nor
society
of
men
but
stand
upon
the
right
of
their
owne
customes
,
Could
you
but
shew
for
your
Civill
customes
,
what
we
can
alledge
for
our
Church-customs
,
good
leave
may
you
have
to
stand
upon
them
;
but
I
doubt
,
by
your
favour
,
it
will
be
long
enough
ere
you
can
shew
the
Apostles
seale
for
the
warrant
and
justification
of
your
customes
.
Some
customes
you
have
,
I
must
needs
grant
,
which
you
may
safely
hold
by
the
same
right
,
as
being
not
determined
by
the
written
laws
,
of
that
nature
are
your
Wayes
,
and
Mounds
,
and
fines
,
and
quitrents
,
and
suits
,
and
services
,
and
commons
,
and
releefes
,
and
heriots
,
and
1000.
more
of
the
like
kinde
,
that
must
be
judged
by
the
custome
,
because
the
Law
therein
hath
prescribed
no
certainty
;
but
when
you
set
up
customes
of
your
owne
devising
,
which
former
ages
never
heard
of
,
to
stint
the
Church
to
a
kinde
of
pension
,
and
to
justle
out
the
lawes
in
that
case
provided
,
well
may
you
force
us
to
suffer
such
customes
,
but
you
shall
never
perswade
us
to
allow
them
.
The
Lord
foresaw
in
his
owne
wisdome
that
such
injurious
customes
were
like
to
grow
upon
his
owne
law
,
to
buy
out
their
tithes
for
ready
mony
,
they
should
yeeld
a
fifth
part
over
and
above
the
reall
value
of
the
thing
redeemed
,
to
prevent
ungodly
compositions
.
If
any
custome
or
composition
of
these
times
shall
freely
allow
that
fifth
part
over
,
well
may
they
hold
and
enjoy
their
customes
,
but
if
they
come
short
of
that
proportion
,
as
commonly
they
doe
which
are
most
urged
,
that
scarce
allow
one
fifth
for
all
the
due
;
I
trow
every
honest
and
well
disposed
heart
will
first
consult
with
his
owne
conscience
how
his
plea
will
hold
in
the
inner
court
,
before
he
stand
upon
such
a
custome
.
Such
customes
as
these
in
their
owne
nature
,
as
being
delivered
to
us
by
word
of
mouth
,
beside
the
warrant
of
the
word
,
are
much
alike
to
some
Romish
traditions
,
which
our
adversaries
seeke
to
obtrude
upon
us
:
but
if
the
word
of
God
be
sufficient
against
the
one
,
as
I
trow
it
is
,
I
hope
it
may
be
thought
as
sufficient
against
the
other
,
and
so
the
matter
is
soone
agreed
.
Consider
I
pray
how
God
shall
blesse
the
labours
of
our
hands
,
as
long
as
wee
seeke
to
binde
his
hands
?
how
shall
he
vouchsafe
to
enlarge
us
,
as
long
as
we
seeke
to
straighten
him
?
how
can
we
looke
for
a
full
increase
,
while
wee
meane
to
allow
him
no
increase
?
It
is
not
for
me
to
cry
downe
these
customes
,
wherin
every
one
pretends
some
interest
,
but
if
you
stand
so
much
upon
these
upstart
customs
,
that
tend
to
the
hinderance
of
religion
;
I
trow
there
is
no
man
can
thinke
ill
of
us
,
if
we
plead
hard
for
the
ancient
customes
,
that
serve
to
the
honour
of
religion
,
and
to
the
furtherance
of
Gods
service
.
You
must
needs
know
that
Mos
populi
dei
is
a
great
deale
more
then
Mos
populi
;
Inst.
l
4.
ca.
10.
sect.
30.
they
are
but
only
humane
customs
that
proceed
from
man
&
tend
to
man
;
but
the
customes
of
the
Church
,
that
serve
for
the
furtherance
of
devotion
,
if
you
please
to
beleeve
Mr.
Calvin
himselfe
,
are
not
only
humane
,
but
also
divine
,
and
so
may
the
better
be
stood
upon
.
You
say
well
(
may
some
reply
)
so
they
bee
good
and
wholesome
customes
,
To
this
objection
let
the
wise
Lawgiver
make
an
answer
:
Cat.
apud
Liv.
decad
.
lib.
4.
Singulos
per
dies
n●vum
aliquid
affectant
.
Iren.
lib.
1.
Ob.
2.
Sol.
There
is
no
Law
(
sayes
he
)
profitable
and
commodious
unto
all
;
that
is
the
thing
to
be
enquired
,
whether
it
suit
with
the
greater
part
;
and
if
it
be
liked
of
the
most
and
better
part
,
wee
must
not
alter
a
Law
so
generally
allowed
,
to
give
content
to
a
few
humorists
,
that
will
hardly
bee
pleased
with
any
Law
.
But
another
will
say
,
these
pretended
customes
are
a
great
impeachment
to
Christian
liberty
.
If
any
man
think
so
,
let
[
*
](A10268-e21770-b)
*
Inst.
l.
4.
c.
10.
supr:
Ob.
3.
Calvin
answer
(
if
they
will
take
his
word
)
That
the
outward
orders
of
the
Church
can
lay
no
bond
upon
the
conscience
,
as
long
as
they
are
no
fixed
and
perpetuall
laws
,
but
externall
rudiments
of
humane
weaknesse
and
infirmity
.
Whatsoever
they
are
may
another
say
,
as
long
as
they
deale
in
things
indifferent
,
they
may
bee
used
indifferently
,
and
not
pressed
upon
such
as
cannot
brooke
them
.
I
marry
,
Thes.
eccl.
Belg.
art.
6
we
should
have
a
goodly
Church
in
a
short
time
.
Such
a
liberty
(
M.
Calvin
can
tell
you
)
could
not
chuse
but
cause
great
confusion
,
and
that
confusion
and
disorder
could
not
chuse
but
breed
sundry
quarrells
.
I
,
No
,
Give
us
a
law
without
a
binding
power
,
and
t
is
like
a
bell
without
a
clapper
:
every
man
will
be
ready
to
put
it
off
like
a
slipper
or
pantofle
at
his
pleasure
,
so
the
Church
her selfe
&
all
her
customes
shall
become
a
scorn
and
by-word
to
contentious
men
.
It
may
be
some
may
urge
further
,
binding
power
.
Those
it
seems
were
framed
by
the
Apostles
,
and
generally
allowed
by
all
the
Churches
;
and
if
it
were
not
so
indeed
,
Saint
Paul
had
never
implyed
so
much
by
his
(
nos
habemus
,
&
Ecclesiae
Dei
)
we
have
them
,
and
the
Churches
of
God
:
whensoever
you
make
it
appeare
that
any
of
your
customes
were
either
delivered
by
the
Apostles
,
or
universally
received
of
all
the
Churches
,
you
shall
finde
us
ready
to
subscribe
without
more
adoe
,
that
we
may
not
be
thought
to
be
contentious
.
Whether
any
of
our
customes
be
such
or
no
,
Sol.
Ambr.
in
4.
Ephes.
at
least
if
it
were
his
ownwork
.
To.
3.
tit.
7.
cap.
63.
I
dare
not
avouch
upon
any
certainty
:
I
heare
St.
Ambrose
complaine
in
his
time
,
that
the
Churches
had
swarved
from
the
Apostolique
customes
;
and
Waldensis
likewise
in
his
time
,
that
the
Apostolique
traditions
could
hardly
be
discerned
from
such
as
were
meerely
ecclesiasticall
:
yet
if
the
rule
of
Saint
Augustine
goe
for
current
,
as
t
is
allowed
by
some
of
our
best
Divines
,
that
whatsoever
hath
been
generally
observed
in
any
age
,
and
yet
not
prescribed
in
any
Councell
,
may
be
certainly
beleeved
to
be
Apostolicall
.
I
see
no
reason
but
some
of
our
owne
customes
which
found
such
generall
allowance
in
the
daies
of
our
Fathers
,
whereof
wee
can
find
no
beginning
,
neither
in
the
Councels
of
the
Church
,
nor
in
the
writings
of
the
Fathers
,
may
safely
passe
for
Apostolicall
.
It
were
to
be
wished
(
if
wishes
might
stand
for
good
proofs
)
that
all
the
customes
of
the
Church
were
onely
such
,
and
that
nothing
might
be
used
in
any
one
,
but
what
were
allowed
by
all
the
rest
:
when
antiquity
and
universality
meet
both
together
in
the
same
custome
,
without
suspition
of
distraction
.
But
what
if
our
customes
be
not
such
,
have
wee
therefore
no
right
to
stand
upon
any
,
unlesse
they
come
home
to
Saint
Pauls
conditions
?
I
warrant
you
habemus
talem
will
be
sufficient
for
a
ceremony
,
though
we
cannot
say
,
habemus
candem
:
for
neither
the
[
a
](A10268-e22450-b)
a
Doct.
Field
,
li.
4.
c.
20.
ut
sup.
Apostolique
customes
can
bind
us
,
nor
any
else
that
have
been
generall
,
unlesse
the
present
Church
give
free
allowance
;
and
seeing
wee
have
the
same
power
in
things
indifferent
,
the
same
I
say
to
frame
a
custome
,
the
same
if
need
be
to
[
b
](A10268-e22490-b)
b
Tert.
de
veland
.
virg.
.
Caetera
quidë
disciplinae
admittunt
novitatem
correctionis
.
E●
Aug.
ep.
ad
Jan.
vel
emëdari
oportet
quod
fi●bat
,
vel
institui
quod
non
fiebat
.
change
a
custome
,
let
not
us
dispute
any
more
either
of
the
novelty
or
particularity
of
the
custome
,
but
readily
submit
to
the
Churches
order
without
any
further
disputation
.
Before
the
custome
was
ordained
,
it
was
free
for
every
one
to
put
in
a
caveat
;
but
when
the
rule
is
once
setled
,
there
is
no
further
place
for
disputation
:
a
simple
obedience
without
any
speciall
inquisition
,
in
such
a
case
,
is
most
absolute
:
and
if
the
Church
can
hardly
erre
,
as
you
heard
before
,
in
the
ordination
of
a
custome
,
why
should
I
doubt
that
I
should
erre
in
yeelding
obedience
to
the
custome
?
No
argument
holds
against
a
custome
,
Many
arguments
had
he
used
in
the
former
verses
,
some
from
[
*
](A10268-e22700-b)
*
Ver.
13.
Ver.
7.
Ver.
14
decency
,
some
from
authority
,
some
from
nature
,
according
as
the
nature
of
the
matter
would
best
allow
:
and
now
being
desirous
to
strike
home
,
and
to
set
a
barre
against
all
reply
,
he
brings
them
up
to
the
Churches
custome
,
that
if
the
rest
of
his
arguments
could
not
perswade
,
yet
this
might
be
sure
to
enforce
obedience
.
Blessed
Saint
Paul
,
thou
hast
now
taught
us
an
easie
way
to
put
an
end
to
all
contention
that
ever
shall
arise
concerning
ceremonies
,
henceforth
if
any
shall
seeme
contentious
,
wee
shall
not
need
to
beat
him
downe
either
with
Fathers
,
or
Councels
,
or
Apostles
,
or
Scriptures
,
no
nor
yet
the
authority
of
other
Churches
;
what
shall
wee
need
to
goe
about
when
Saint
Paul
hath
shewed
us
a
nearer
way
,
If
any
private
man
shall
attempt
in
time
to
come
to
bring
upon
us
a
new
custome
,
either
in
praying
,
or
preaching
,
or
baptizing
,
or
communicating
,
or
marying
,
or
burying
,
whatsoever
it
bee
,
or
by
whomsoever
it
bee
allowed
,
wee
will
say
no
more
then
S.
Paul
does
,
Non
habemus
talem
,
wee
have
none
such
:
You
may
not
set
up
a
new
custome
.
On
the
other
side
,
if
any
shall
seek
to
put
down
the
old
,
whether
in
standing
,
or
kneeling
,
or
crossing
,
or
bowing
,
or
uncovering
,
or
whatsoever
else
of
the
same
alloy
,
that
hath
beene
either
prescribed
in
our
booke
of
Canons
,
or
religiously
continued
in
the
reverend
practice
of
our
mother
Churches
,
we
shall
need
to
say
no
more
then
S.
Paul
implies
,
habemus
talem
,
we
have
such
a
custome
allowed
amongst
us
,
and
you
have
no
power
to
put
it
downe
.
Indeed
custome
is
a
good
plea
for
outward
rite
,
customes
of
men
,
but
the
truth
of
God
;
nor
must
we
regard
what
men
have
done
,
but
what
Christ
hath
said
for
our
direction
.
Ad
legem
&
testimonia
,
to
the
law
and
the
testimonies
must
we
goe
for
tryall
,
there
must
wee
seeke
for
our
direction
;
but
for
matter
of
rites
,
and
outward
discipline
,
which
are
things
in
themselves
meerely
arbitrary
,
and
no
where
expressed
in
the
word
of
God
:
we
can
never
use
a
more
strong
demonstrative
argument
then
S.
Paul
hath
used
in
the
words
of
my
text
,
We
have
,
or
,
we
have
not
such
a
custome
.
The
very
name
of
custome
hath
some
weight
,
because
the
allowance
of
the
Church
is
added
to
it
,
yet
it
is
not
the
allowance
of
every
Church
,
that
takes
up
a
rite
of
her
owne
head
,
contrary
to
the
order
of
other
Churches
;
but
the
unanimous
consent
of
sundry
Churches
agreeing
in
one
,
that
gives
the
name
and
force
of
a
custome
.
S.
Paul
doth
not
stand
upon
the
custome
of
one
Church
,
much
lesse
doth
he
urge
it
against
all
the
rest
;
but
loe
he
stands
upon
the
generall
use
of
the
Apostolique
Churches
,
and
urges
the
harmony
of
the
most
,
against
the
private
use
of
the
Church
of
Corinth
;
to
teach
us
that
if
any
question
should
arise
in
time
to
come
about
the
different
orders
of
sundry
Churches
,
that
wee
could
hardly
know
which
to
follow
,
we
should
ever
preferre
the
customes
of
the
most
,
and
specially
those
which
are
most
Apostolique
,
before
the
private
orders
of
some
few
that
have
degenerated
from
the
rule
.
You
see
the
nature
of
S.
Pauls
customes
,
(
talis
)
you
have
a
custome
I
warrant
you
against
all
exception
;
and
if
any
man
seeme
to
be
contentious
,
you
may
safely
plead
it
in
open
Court
(
habemus
talem
)
we
have
such
a
custome
.
But
I
feare
I
shall
exceed
the
time
,
and
so
break
the
custome
while
I
stand
so
long
upon
the
Churches
custome
;
but
if
I
have
tyred
the
patience
of
any
in
tracing
this
strange
unusuall
argument
,
I
desire
the
blame
may
rest
upon
them
whose
wilfull
and
stubborne
oppositions
have
forced
mee
to
breake
my
usuall
custome
.
For
most
of
you
,
this
labour
might
be
spared
,
for
I
have
seene
your
order
and
approved
it
,
but
others
there
are
of
that
crosse
and
peevish
spirit
,
that
I
thinke
if
S.
Paul
himselfe
would
supply
this
place
,
he
could
hardly
win
them
to
conformity
.
Let
the
Church
stand
upon
her
customes
while
she
will
,
the
rulers
of
the
Church
observe
the
custome
,
and
all
the
Doctors
of
the
Church
both
old
and
new
allow
the
custome
,
yet
they
resolve
to
hold
their
custome
,
their
custome
of
wilfull
contradiction
.
If
any
custome
at
all
goe
downe
with
them
,
it
must
be
the
custome
of
some
forraigne
Church
:
Great
is
Diana
of
the
Ephesians
,
and
they
are
apt
enough
to
admire
her
customes
;
but
for
the
customes
of
our
owne
Church
,
George
Paul
in
the
life
of
Archb:
Whitgift
.
Apoc.
3.17
18
,
19.
which
all
our
neighbours
so
much
renowne
;
and
our
very
adversaries
themselves
account
an
honour
to
our
reformation
,
they
must
not
be
allowed
upon
any
tearmes
.
Alas
poore
Mother
,
thou
sayest
thou
art
rich
,
and
wantest
nothing
,
and
knowest
not
that
thou
art
poore
,
and
naked
,
and
miserable
,
and
blinde
,
that
thou
canst
not
judge
of
the
least
custome
:
Thou
must
buy
thy
gold
of
them
if
thou
wilt
be
rich
,
and
thy
raiment
of
them
,
if
thou
wilt
be
cloathed
,
and
thy
eye-salve
of
them
if
thou
wilt
be
cured
of
thy
blindnesse
;
and
yet
the
most
of
them
will
freely
confesse
(
if
they
are
not
too
ingratefull
)
that
they
themselves
have
been
debtors
unto
thee
,
not
onely
for
the
light
of
heavenly
truth
,
but
for
the
helpe
of
outward
supportation
.
Did
the
fame
of
thy
children
never
spread
beyond
the
Alps
,
or
their
glory
beyond
the
Lemanian
lake
?
Why
then
should
thy
children
despise
thy
customes
,
and
dote
upon
the
love
of
forraign
Churches
,
unlesse
they
meane
to
play
the
parts
of
ungracious
children
,
to
discredit
the
wombe
that
brought
them
forth
,
and
the
pappes
that
brought
them
up
.
For
our
parts
,
wee
are
loath
to
discredit
our
neighbour
Churches
,
such
as
have
joyned
with
us
in
the
reformation
;
whatsoever
customes
they
have
,
we
envy
them
not
,
good
leave
may
they
have
to
stand
upon
them
,
and
if
any
of
us
should
converse
among
them
,
we
would
not
stick
to
use
their
customes
.
The
rule
that
S.
[
a
](A10268-e23950-b)
a
Apud
Aug.
ep.
ad
Casulanum
.
Quando
Rome
sum
,
&c.
&
ad
quamcunque
aliam
ecclesiam
veneritis
ejus
m●●em
servate
,
si
pari
scanda●um
,
nec
vultis
,
aec
facere
.
ibid.
Ambrose
gave
to
his
friend
S.
Augustine
,
when
he
asked
his
opinion
concerning
fasting
on
the
Saturday
,
which
was
the
custom
at
Rome
,
but
not
at
Millaine
,
that
when
hee
was
at
Rome
,
he
used
to
fast
,
and
when
he
was
at
Millaine
hee
used
to
eate
;
the
same
must
we
alwayes
observe
in
matter
of
Rite
,
as
S.
Augustine
teaches
,
If
wee
will
neither
offer
nor
suffer
scandall
.
Let
mee
give
the
counsell
that
[
b
](A10268-e24060-b)
b
Ier.
ep.
ad
Lucin.
Ego
illud
te
breviter
admonendum
puto
,
&c.
Necalierū
consuetudi
.
nem
ali●rum
contrario
modo
subverti
.
Ierome
gave
to
his
friend
Lucinius
,
that
thou
keepe
the
customes
of
the
Church
inviolable
,
and
suffer
not
the
customes
of
one
Church
to
be
undermined
,
to
bring
in
the
customes
of
another
.
Thou
maist
easily
offend
either
way
,
but
chiefly
in
opposing
thine
owne
Church
:
for
if
it
be
matter
of
scandall
as
you
heard
before
,
to
refuse
the
customes
of
forraigne
Churches
whensoever
we
chance
to
communicate
with
them
,
how
can
we
free
our selves
from
cause
of
scandall
,
when
we
spurne
at
the
rites
of
our
owne
Church
,
and
refuse
to
conforme
to
her
authorised
customes
?
I
must
say
no
more
of
these
kinde
of
men
,
for
I
doubt
my
doome
is
passed
already
;
I
must
goe
for
a
formalist
,
a
time-server
,
and
I
know
not
what
if
I
plead
so
hard
for
the
Churches
custome
;
but
if
I
suffer
in
this
cause
,
S.
Paul
may
best
answer
for
me
,
he
hath
deceived
me
if
I
be
deceived
,
and
if
he
have
a
share
in
this
hard
censure
,
I
shall
bee
well
content
to
suffer
with
him
,
although
they
should
make
me
yet
more
vile
.
Howsoever
it
be
,
I
shall
yet
intreat
for
all
that
,
and
I
will
not
intreat
in
mine
owne
name
,
but
in
the
words
of
the
blessed
Apostle
;
Now
I
beseech
you
brethren
by
the
name
of
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
that
you
all
speake
one
thing
,
and
that
there
may
be
no
schismes
and
dissentions
among
you
.
Let
no
man
strive
against
the
customes
of
the
Church
,
for
that
will
turne
to
his
owne
confusion
,
these
warres
are
like
the
warres
of
Saul
and
David
,
where
the
house
of
Saul
grew
still
weaker
,
and
the
house
of
David
gathered
strength
.
It
is
hard
to
kick
against
these
pricks
,
for
you
may
sooner
gall
your
owne
feete
by
a
foolish
opposition
,
then
you
can
blunt
or
spurne
down
the
Churches
custome
.
There
is
neither
comfort
nor
gaine
in
this
rash
adventure
,
but
onely
the
shame
of
your
own
mother
;
but
if
you
will
yeeld
your selves
like
dutifull
children
to
observe
the
custome
,
or
like
stout
champions
to
plead
the
custome
,
you
have
the
warrant
of
the
Apostle
to
defend
you
,
and
the
countenance
of
your
Mother
to
encourage
you
,
and
the
promise
of
your
Father
to
reward
you
,
even
the
Father
of
peace
,
and
the
Father
of
all
comfort
,
who
shall
sanctifie
you
all
throughout
,
and
keepe
you
both
in
soule
and
body
,
and
spirit
,
blamelesse
untill
the
day
of
Iesus
Christ
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.