own table and before all the people will bee glorified by an open and manifest declaration of our conformitie to him and not to mens devices Doth it not most plainly declare to all generations for ever that to do or conforme to any thing of Religious use in Gods publick worship which he hath not commanded is a most feareful sin which he will greevously punish yea cleane contrary even to profane the Lord for when we do not herein tie our selves precisely to keepe and do all the word of the Law and those onely which are written not in mens cannons and constitutions but in this booke even the sacred and inspired scriptures we doe most plainely manifest that whatsoever outwardly wee professe yet in our hearts wee doe not stand in awe of or feare that glorious and fearefull name The Lord thy God yea and notwithstanding our saying or often repeating Lord Lord and making a most open profession of all fundamental poynts concerning the act of Iustification nay though it be graunted that those excellent devices of pompe and state and all variety of delicacies most pleasing Inventions ordeyned to haue state in Gods publick worship doe exceedingly worke upon the affections of carnall men and draw them by these means to come neere unto God in the place of his publik worship with their lips making outward semblance of great devotion and reverence of his majesty which before they never regarded yet seeing this feare of God or religion is begotten in them not by Gods own ordinances but by conforming to the precepts and cannons of wise and learned men it is onely carnal and worldly what holy devout and charitable shewes soever it makes and is so far off from knitting or ioyning our soul to God which is our greatest happinesse as it Removes ou◠heart more and more from him which is our greatest misery So that this Christian liberty which these men do so boast of that if God have not forbidden it then we may safely conforme unto it and so not tying our selves strictly to that onely which is commanded or written in the word is a meere slavery and bondage and the very next yea most direct way to bring us back again in these ships of humane Inventions into spiritual Egypt where under colour of most learned prophecying Iezabel playes false even closely professeth spirituall bawdry the most abominable mother of that damnable Idolatry All will worship then euen whatsoeuer God hath not commanded though it be ordeined by men of neuer so great wisdom vnderstanding and discretion and all other most excellent parts and vpon most wise considerations good purposes and holy Intentions is notwithstanding nothing in all the world but meere alluring enticementes to make the way plain for spirittuall filthines and therefore by no means upon any terms to be cōformed vnto but to be held and adiudged most vnlawfull yea execrable and therefore to submit our selues thereunto especially in these daies of knowldge must nedes at the verie best though not in euerie one in the same degree be but Nadabs and Abihues case For if will worship or mens Inventions bee tollerable in these why not vpon like consideration in any other if in new Ceremonies why not in new sacraments for if wee acknowledge man to haue priviledge or prerogatiue diuino Iure in devising some Religious actions or gesture in Gods publicke worship do what they can out of this seed by degrees of absolute necessitie will the popes supremacie arise seing all the other Eight Commanments haue a kind of dependancie for so much as concerns the outward man upon the second as all the duties of the inward man haue of the first and therefore the conforming to and so Iustifying the lawfulnes of the seed must needs give strong approbation to the goodnes of the fruit Seing then the warrantie vertue or power of everie Religious calling action ceremonie or gesture comes not from the doer but from the ordainer and that all the good Intentions or learned Imaginations in the whole world can neither devise them nor make them lawfull or profitable let us acknowledge that God onely can take a Ribbe out of Adam and make it a fit helpe for man and that hee onely can ordeine callings Ceremonies gestures for his Church worship yea make them profitable helps for his servāts therein though he take them any where and from whence soever he pleaseth yea though they had formerly been Idolized or made blind lame or leaprous yet he yea he onely can cleanse them and make them holy for is it possible that an evil tree humane wisdom should bring forth good fruit any acceptable service or is there any primarily good but God from whom Every good gift doth come Either the Lord is the author of the calling gesture and Ceremony or else of absolute necessity it follows there cannot possibly in any rerespect or to any intent purpose be any goodnes therein at all And therefore the Churches of Christ have no promise of a blessing but absolutely of a Curse by conforming thereunto especially seing all humane Inventions or traditions of this nature assume by little and little yea at length without blushing chalendge to themselves euen by divine right that holy respect religious reverence w ch is only due to Gods ordinances which sin al they doe commit who teach for doctrines concerning the governmēt of the Church or the ceremonies and gestures in publick worship of God mens precepts even the meere opinions or authorities of fathers the grave Counsels or cannons of learned men and not one divine drame of the holy and inspired scripture and thus by the alluring contentments which alwayes accompany these humane devices they steale away the heart and make it goe a-whoring after them with a most violent delight in and approbation of thē far beyond Gods owne ordinances even as the filthy though snout faire or painted harlot steales away the affection of the husband from his wife to her selfe and therefore conformity must needs bee at least accessarie unto this sacriledge are you not much bound to your learned pastors who take such paines to perswade you to it Now in the act of receiving the Lords supper at the Lords owne table some gesture is absolutely and for the former as I may say essentially necessarie but a wrong and a false gesture is utterly unlawfull will any in his right minde deny either of these Therefore in the act of receiving we may onely conforme to the true gesture and not indifferently to anie unlesse they can prooue by Gods word that every gesture warranted onelie by the precepts of men is the true and lawfull gesture the want of which warrant and yet pressing conformitie to them is absolutely to make the commandements of God concerning these things in question of none authoritie and to set up and exalt in their steads mens meere traditions and devices The
maine question then is which is the true gesture for on all sides it will be granted that that onely is to be conformed unto Shall we take the Reede of reason or the Rule of mans wisedome and learning to measure this withall verily no for these savour not the things of the spirit neither are they neither can they be subiect to the Law of God Let us looke therefore what was in the beginning Our Lord and Saviour used without all question in the first institution of the Supper whatsoever was essentially necessarie either for substance or decēcie but a gesture yea a tru gesture in the institution was essentially necessarie for a false gesture had been sinne and without a gesture it could neither be delivered nor receiued therefore that which hee used was and is without all contradiction the true gesture and therefore also that which was and is onely and for the action essentiallie necessarie Seeing then he used a table gesture and all they that did represent the whole universall and particular succeeding Churches to the end of the world did receiue the blessed Sacrament of the most pretious body and bloud of our Lord with a table gesture unlesse like Divine authoritie for another gesture as well as for altering the time place and number of communicants can bee produced Gods holy word and my blessed Saviours and his Apostles example are sufficient and sound warrant for my faith to beleeue that a Table gesture is the onely true and lawfull gesture and that no other in any respect ought to be conformed unto But here starts out a gallant company of most braue fellowes that haue laine close in ambush till fit opportunitie served and they set verie hotlie upon the hinder parts of the truth with a terrible noise crying out That this is utterly against the current of the Scripture yea directly against that libertie wherewith Christ hath made us free For howsoever to conforme to the Iewish ceremonies is not onely to be intangled againe with the yoake of bondage for looke whose ceremonies we use or conforme to we make our selues thereby his bondmen but to loose the whole profit and benefite of all Christ his merits yea even to be utterly abolished from Christ and to fall from grace how fearfull a thing therefore is conformity to unwarranted ceremonies yet notwithstanding in cases of conveniencie though nothing of the like extremitie as ours and for the preservation of the Churches peace as verie now it fares with us the same Apostle was content for a time to conforme himselfe to divers of those verie ceremonies and therefore where the like causes doe concurre we may yeeld to the like effects Here of necessity wee must make a stand they come on so hotly as if they meant to share the spoyle forthwith and making strong head against them as with a valiant crue of Targetteers of good proofe VVee referre therefore to their learned consideration first that the Iewish ceremonies here spoken of were in their first original good and holy being ordained by God himselfe so was never any of these things in controversie but at the very first unwarrantable and therfore wicked and sinfull and secondly we giue them to understand out of the English long bow that though these ceremonies were indeed to be abolished yet the time of their enduring was not fully expired till that the Gospell was planted and lastly by the report of a Canon their security is to be admonished and themselues informed that the ceremonies of the Law were to be buried with honour and entombed in princely sepulchres but these of mens devising with all possible reproch contempt and disgrace so that here is no proportion betwixt the liberty of Paul and that which they pretend and brag of unlesse therefore they can shew that in some place where the Gospel was planted Paul did conforme to some of the said ceremonies as of religious use in Gods publicke worship they may verie well lay down their weapons and betake them to their heeles VVhat needs that quoth a bold Corporall when a better man then ever Paul was did absolutely conforme in the first famous Church that was called Christian even Peter the Prince of all the Apostles but good sir the Holie Ghost his directly reproving him by PAVL for the same doth fully answer all obiections of that kinde But here fearing a foil they wynd about and make two half circles and with one wherin the principal of their force cōsists they make quick reply and say that God commaunded that in all matters too hard for vs to iudge we must repaire to the magistrate preist cōform according to that which they shall inform not decline to the right hand nor to the left now both these they say in this controuersie about the gesture and the other ceremonies do directly determine that kneeling euen as it is urged is absolutely the true and best gesture and all the other things in question both lawfull and most convenient and therefore all that will do presumptuously and not conforme to these things ex animo ought not to be fined in thousands and committed to perpetuall imprisonment but even to loose their liues for that is to take away Evill from Israell Hereunto keeping our first ground without any alteration or disorder in our Ranks we do say that the Priesthood is quite remooved out of the Church and ought not so much as once to be mentioned in these dayes of the cleere light of the Gospell as a title in any respect unbefitting the ministers of the word yea seing that goverment is absolutely taken away this law being meerely politicall is utterly repealed The other 2 quarters or half circles having by this time well refreshed themselves thinking they had us now at a great advantage and in a strait ioyn with the former so make one full compleat body and making great shew of a Resolution even to set their rest upon it they come forward with great courage and in very good order and reply that the Equitie of that law is morall and binds perpetually and therefore by direct consequent obligeth us to conformity Here the Corporal cries yeeld yeeld But to this knowing that there is not one iot of manhood or true valour in them and that when it comes to the push indeed they dare not for their liues abide the triall by dint of the sword of the spirit wee ioyne with them and receive their shock most ioyfullie and tell them that this is very true and we do most readily subscribe thereunto seeing then these and all other types were removed to Christ this Equitie being morall doth perpetually bind all Christian Churches in matters too hard and difficult to heare him yea in all things seeing hee is that beloved Sonne in whom God is well even fully and perfectly and onely pleased look what he
accursed for I am a great King saith the Lord of hosts and my name is terrible among the heathen Seeing then everie David Churches or particular persons after Gods own heart doth banish such lame ceremonies blind callings and sicke gestures from all the parts of Gods publick worship as things which his soule hateth Oh thou sonne of David smite them and deliver us from them for our verie soules doe abhorre them and put it into the faithfull heart of thy friend and servant Iacob to put away these strange Gods and earings and so to cleanse all his kingdoms by burying these humane Inventions under the oke which is by Shechem And you the faithfull servants of that sonne of David though the driving out of the temple or place or callings appointed for Gods publicke worship not onely the more grosse abuses which had been they will confesse no more then was fit and convenient but even All humane Inventions which he found therein with the sheep and oxen things commanded by God to be used in his service yet this maner of providing them and making them readie for the people of God not being commanded by the Lord made them abominable and powring out the changers mony thereby discovering the gainfulnes of those places which onely kept and held in these abuses and overthrowing the tables And the rest of our Saviours cariage who is Lord and blessed for ever when he would manifestly and mightly declare himselfe to bee the onely and sole king or supreame head of his Church in generall and of all the nationall or severall congregations therein in particular by exercising dominion not onely in the fundamentall points of faith and justification but in everie things of Religious use seeme it never so small even in these circumstances or appurtenances seemed unto flesh and bloud something rude and indiscreet and that the businesse was not so carried as the peace of that Church wherein he was borne and bred required or as the reverence of the Ecclesiasticall persons in authority deserued yea seeing as carnall reason doth think and censure these matters were but things indifferent though there was questionles many excellent parts in him yet his discenting from the Church government so ancient so reverent yea and by generall consent uppon most graue and learned consultation with all possible wisdom with such good successe so long established must needs argue exceeding great weaknes in him by our learned adversaries louely oratory because hee was so violent in these small triviall matters as if the verie substance of Religion had consisted in them surelie goodmen they seeme to be hartelie sorie that he overshot himselfe more in this then all the things that ever he did in his whole life and did not performe this action with such moderation and discretion as was fit and as a matter of such high consequence deserved notwithstanding all this and whatsoever had been or shall be said against such proceedings I humblie beseech all such as unfeinedlie desire to serve the Lord Christ to Remember that it is as a perpetuall law to bind Gods servannts even all posteritie for ever that when the outward and publick worship of God is thus corrupted and defiled by mens Inventions in the ceremonies callings gestures and actions thereof all those in whom the spirit of true Zeale doth abide must be so far of from conforming upon any termes unto these things or any of them as upon pain of Gods high displeasure according as it is written of them they must in one degree or other manifest their Iudgement in the dislike of them and everie of them yea though they expose their persons their credit and reputations to the like disgraces and Rebukes by so doing Finallie you reverend and learned adversaries seing civill policie is the strongest argument that can be pressed for that conformitie which with might and main you doe so eagerly perswade unto Consider I beseech you the issue of the verie like course a remarkable president against our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ The Scribes and Pharisees you know though still they cried out for arguments and miracles reasons and signes to prove his divine authority yet it was well knowen among themselues though they made outward shew of the contrary that hee was a teacher come from God but yet considering that his doctrine though holy and divine in all things tended directly to the overthrow of their Ecclesiastall pollicie and government so that their authoritie and dignitie their reputation and greatnesse must of necessitie come downe if the truth which hee taught were once received they concluded meerely at first in civill pollicie that though hee were a holy man in life and of great power in his ministerie and did exceeding much good thereby yea and held nothing but what was truelie grounded on the word of God yet of absolute necessitie upon the causes and considerations aforesaid he must be opposed even because hee must and so from this seeming small beginning they fell to plots and devices how to bring his opinions into disgrace with the state in generall and with some speciall persons that were of greatest and highest account therein in particular perswading them that they were his verie purposed plots and craftie devices to crosse their designes and so by degrees they came to a politicke mallice of his person arising onely from the hatred of his doctrine which was the mother of their most fearefull and finall apostasie never resting themselues till by flattering insinuations false accusations open slanders falsifying mens testimonies or depositions and like abhominable practises the particulars whereof are a most worthy worke to discover and at length by false witnesses and plaine periurie they not onely brought his doctrine and person into open and generall hatred but most maliciouslie practised and perfidiously procured his cruell and bloudie death If then in your ignorance you haue spoken a-against the Sonne of man in this cause of his servants who dare not conforme to humane inventions but labour for reformation that by the Magistrates authority al these novelties might bee driven away and their favourers whipped out of the Temple upon your repentance it shall bee forgiven but if when you haue considered their arguments and reasons against conformitie you see the euidence of the spirit according to the Scriptures appearing therein and yet for these or such like politike cōsiderations you thereunto moving you persist willingly in the defence of conformitie your case is most dangerous and to be lamented Take heed therefore of transgressing maliciously though it bee never so pollitickly the Lord of hostes the God of Israell will not be mercifull unto such the fervent prayer of all the faithfull is against it Enter not then into the Councell or convocations with the wicked how to iustifie and defend their courses or if that bee past stand not therein be not stiffe and resolute in such wicked proceedings
a spirit in man and therefore it may bee that some are called spirituall men yet we should allwayes find this to be true in all controversies o◠proceedings about matters of Religious nature not many such how excellent soever much lesse the greatest part of them though most wise after the flesh no though their counsell in their dayes be esteemed as free from error as the oracle of God are notwithstanding chosen of God to doe any speciall good to his Churches or servants for indeed though their titles be spirituall yet their wayes and courses doe plainly testifie that their hearts are Carnall and fleshly and therefore they do not savour the things of Gods spirit no they seeme meere foolishnesse unto them because indeed they are spiritually discerned therfore they esteem them verie fooles and asses that will loose a good living rather then conforme to mens Inventions in Gods worship thus doe they assume that sufficiencie to themselues which is wholy of God Almightie whose inspiration onely giveth understanding especially in all matters of Religious use and yet will these aspiring spirits presume to set the H. Ghost to schoole most presumptuously reade large lectures of discretion unto him in his servants because they will not conforme without his direct warrant pretending that there is great truth no lies in the things they presse and yet cannot possiblie proue them to bee commanded of God as all trueth necessarie for the Church to conforme unto is as though if there were any kind of truth in them the holy Ghost would not lead and direct us therein and least they should put this off as a peculiar promise to the Apostles he hath purposely by precept and practise expresly in all such occasions tied us absolutely to the Scriptures you haue done foolishlie therefore in this O yee reverend and learned men that ye◠haue not rested on the word of the Lord in these thing in controversie which you so eagerly presse conformitie unto but as it were upon the hoast of the Aramits on the Ancient fathers general counsels and canons humane reason and the learning and wisdom of the world heare therefore the word of the Lord henceforth you shall haue wars one or other shall set upō your ceremonies all other your humane inventions and never giue that argument over till all ordinances in the Church which God hath not planted by the authoritie of the Scriptures bee utterlie rooted out And this your Idoll of conformitie the ripe fruit of your proud hearts wil deceiue you yea though thereby you are growen confident because you haue at length setled your seats as safely as in the clefts of the Rock and made your nests the verie next to the Eagle himself in the supremest mountaines of the highest Region yet will I bring you down from thence saith the Lord for though by thy wisdom and deepe pollicies or undiscerned subtleties thou hast gotten thee great riches and prefer 〈…〉 nts and hast increased very greatly thy power and authoritie and so art lifted up in thine heart as in a chaire of securitie conceiting thy selfe that thou art wiser then Daniel and hast more learning and wisdom greater reason and stronger arguments for thy conformitie then all those that are of perfect or sincere hearts towards the Lord and are contrarie minded and therefore dare no way conforme unto you with whom their feare even hee whom they serue will shew his strength yet behold God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound you that are so wise yea vile and despised persons which in the opinion of the world being compared with you did not so much as seeme to exist or bring to naught your strongest arguments for this your great goddesse conformitie and that by a plaine demonstration of their vanity yea though they be neither prophets or sons of the Prophets nor so much as brought up at the feet of some prophet but in comparison meere strangers yet they bee as a terrible nation and their arguments shall be as drawen swords against the verie beautie of thy wisdom yea they shal defile thy brightnesse your so admired vnderstanding by laying open your most dissembling and cunning practises yea in some of you horrible and fearefull blasphemies Many haue had I confesse too religious estimation of your learning and other venerable endowments but finding it plaine that in this Controversie with poore Christians you haue cast off the word of the Lord and trust in violence and wickednesse and stay thereupon for the iustifying of your courses not regarding the lawes of God or man but by one devise or other will breake through all therefore there is great hope that this iniquitie which lies swelling within you will make you so top-heavie as your verie height the onely thing you so wisely foresaw to be necessarie and therefore so providently by your deepe reaches haue attained will be an unavoydable cause of your sudden and violent downefall yea and with that detestation as no one humane invention seeme it never so tollerable shall bee left for the meanest use and office in the worship and publick service of the Lord no not so much as a little sheard to fetch fire or water for as all Gods ordinances are good so no humane invention of religious use in Gods worship can be good no not one And wheras it is obiected y t the reverend Fathers of our Church hold thē lawfull and good Iure diuino even so that Reuerend father Deterano Chamberlen to Vrban 6. publickly taught with great approbation of many great Divines that the verie meaning of Christ in saying giue to Caesar the things that be Caesars was but till his ascention and that when he was lifted vp he would drawe all these things vnto him that is Baronies Earledomes yea and kingdomes too even all that was Caesars and that it is therfore of Diuine Institution that the ministers of the Gospell might challenge and enioy these things as their proper and peculiar right both revenewes and honours and that it was grievous sacriledge for any prince to withhold the same or any ciuil authority from them or to this effect was that which he held which hath sprong out of that slip which he then set the seueral plants wherof haue wōderfully thriven in al christendom so likewise many great schollers and very learned divines haue held it an invincible argument that the Popes gouernment Hierarchie and supremacie is lawfull because it hath prospered and so long endured with good success for els say they God would neuer haue suffred it Is it not also avowed by many wise and reuerent Doctors that Iames the brother of our Lord according to the flesh did bring in the Masse and ioyned it to the scripture and therefore that it is of Apostolicall institution and ought to be conformed unto In like
for if once you sit downe or settle your selues with resolution to proue the lawfulnesse of the seates of these scorners or money-changers you are neere vnto cursing and farre from the blessing yea the Lord thinking upon his congregation which he hath possessed of old and on the rod of his inheritance which he hath redeemed and measured out for himselfe and on mount Syon wherein hee hath dwelt will verily lift up his strokes and destroy for ever every enemy that doth evill to the Sanctuarie Even so be it Lord Iesus If true Religion onely knits our heart unto God and all false Religions seperate our hearts from God then whatsoeuer is of Religious use and to be conformed unto in Gods publick worship must be true that is truely grounded in the word of God or else it separats us from God But true Religion doth onely knit our hearts unto God c. and the gesture of kneeling as it is urged being of Religious use and to be conformd unto in Gods publick worship is not true that is not truely grounded on the word of God Therefore to Conforme to kneeling as it is urged is to separate from God All feare or Religion towards God not taught by the Scripturs but by the precepts of men remooues the heart farre from God yea the defence and justifying hereof workes great wonders and marvels the wisedom of such wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall bee hid Esa 29. 13 14. TO THE CHVRCH OF GREAT BRITtaine in generall or to the severall congregations or Churches therein in particular being the true visible Churches of Christ grace peace bee multiplied for ever IT is not vnknown how vtterly vnlawful yea altogether impossible it is to serue or conforme to two masters as also that by our fall in Adam we haue not onely forsaken our first master of Creation who in our innocent estate did immediatly direct teach and leade vs into all truth but haue betaken vs to a new master whose Inventions or nouelties we did most voluntarily subscribe vnto euen Satan who now doth immediately in the estate of nature guide and leade all the children of men as well in the Church as out of it into all falsitie and error in all things concerning God and his Church and yet also how euerie one naturally doth most willingly though some perhaps more wisely or learnedly and others more vilely and desperately yeeld their hartie obedience vnto him though not in their purpose and intention yet at least in error of their Iudgment and corrupted resolution For the vnderstanding being vtterly blinded we think in our reason wisdome and learning that to be certe 〈…〉 ly good which is directly euill that to be cleare light which is Egiptian darknes that to be the service of God which is the apparant worship of Deuills and so think and are verely perswaded our master to be God when in verie trueth it is Satan True it is that wisdome discretion learning and many other excellent parts and gifts yea euen in heavenly things nature may and doth still by industrie attaine vnto but the sauing or sanctfying graces of God which bring the heart vnto Christ that new or renewing master are supernaturall euen the immediate worke of the holy ghost whose schollers or seruants euerie one of necessity must be that will be saued and thus farre I take it is agrreed on all sydes in all our Churches or congregations For I speak to none but to such among vs as professe thēselues to be the schollers of Christ now being matriculated or by the blessed sacrament of holy Baptisme Initiated into the schoole or corporation or bodie of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ I humbly beseech euerie one that doth sincerely purpose euer to take the lest degree of true holines or sanctification without which no man shal see God seriously to consider what books whether historical propheticall politicall poeticall or Euangelicall or authours as they terme them must here to this purpose be learned and professed and these are all bound vp together in one volume of the canonicall sacred or inspired scriptures and for their excellencie called the Bible all other writers or authors diffring from these in any thing concerning God or his worship by teaching or pressing some things which are not truly grounded vpon these are to bee esteemed books of our second master therefore to be accursed how honest or holy soever their intention or drift pretends or seems to be yea of most absolute necessitie it followes that all who do upon any terms learne their lessons from thence and so conforme unto them do thereby conforme unto Satan who of all men in their wits is acknowledged to be the author and teacher of all lessons or doctrines concerning religious ceremonies callings or gestures in the worship of God which are not in evidence and power of the holy Ghost plainly grounded upon the word of God for there bee but two masters who are by Christ opposed the one to the other All trueth therefore is to be learned of the one and to be collected or gathered onely out of his books or sacred writings even from God to whom onely wee must giue credit in his word for oportet discente credere whatsoever then is learned elsewhere must needs bee from that other master as the proper lessons of his open and free schoole wherin yet wee confesse all the excellencies of of all arts and all the deepenesse of learning do abound who must also in those arguments and reasons we ground or practise upon bee credited and beleeved to bee the authour of that supposed truth which we make profession of by our so doing Let us therefore bring forth those bookes or authours into the open view of the world wherein this lesson of Conformitie or refusall thereunto is taught and learned that so every Scholler may be knowne by his own Master and the authours publickly taught in his schoole Now if any be ashamed to professe that hee obayes or learnes this lesson of any other then of God then must hee either shew his warrant and authoritie out of the sacred Scriptures for the things hee professeth and practiseth in this controversie or else he plainly discovers whose scholler he is for they onely are the fountaine of trueth that which comes from them is holy and sincere but if it be grounded vpon men or Churches though ancient and orthodox in many other things yet the filthines of their channell in all matters especially of religious vse will leaue some infection behinde it Let vs therfore trie all things yea though they haue beene the receaued opinions or practises of the holiest men and purest churches in the world whose iudgment yet is highly to be reuerenced though it differ from ours till the worde of God do euidently to our consciences dicide the Controuersie and keepe or conforme to that onely in the divine service