Yea I do friendly intreate these Merchants of experience in and with these true west Churches of Christ advisedly to view and take particular notice of these pleasant wares so full of delicacy which their souls by reason of their excellent fatnes do so greedily yea most violently thirst or luste after and sincerely to consider whether they be not so like to those of poperie as one naughtie egge can possibly be like another though perhaps one be but addle and the rottennesse of the other most offensiuely stinkes the one most noysome the better very unholesome But here our adversaries will confesse that for the forme they are alike indeed as one partridge is to another but in their use and intention most opposite even cleane contrary But is not this I pray you some small parcell of the voyce of that beast yea is it not an apparant branch of his great blasphemie to assume authoritie to ordaine ceremonies and callings for the publicke worship of God and to appropriate unto them holy or religious uses and spirituall intentions which power is onely proper and peculiar unto God himselfe and yet even this divine authoritie doe they dare to assume as their divino iure hath publicklie proclaimed to all the Churches in the world But to leaue this to their better consideration and to assume that which which they must needes bee willing to grant that the things in question are in their outward forme like unto those of popery but not in their use at least as it is preached I humbly desire them to consider whether this bee not without any turning or winding a direct and manifest breach of the second commandement where the Lord forbids all Churches under what climate or government soever not simply as I may say to haue but to make Images or any visible representations of the eternall loue of God the Father and of the incomprehensible and invisible grace of IESVS CHRIST shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost but as if the Lord had said I know it is absolutelie necessarie in my outward and publicke worship to haue certaine visible signes and formes subiect to common sence and reason which must haue this heavenlie use even to represent to the minde and understanding by the eye of faith these spirituall graces for else the imagination beeing left at libertie and not preciselie tied to these set formes and divine ordinances will bee so full of wandring fantasies in hearing seeing tasting handling and meditating as the soule can never possibly bee edified But yet saith the Lord. Thou shalt not make or devise these I doe reserue that glory to my selfe and will not under Law or Gospell giue it no not in the least circumstance of publicke and religious use in my worship and service to any other But say our adversaries wee doe not take that glory to our selues therefore wee haue not broken this commandement I confesse between the theife and the receauer the whore and the bawd there is indeed some manifest difference and therfore to auoide all manner of contention herein it is as if the Lord had said in plainer termes Thou whoseuer thou art generall counsell or nationall synode ciuill magistrate or ecclesiasticall Ruler or both together shalt not make or being made shalt not command or teach any to conforme vnto any thing of Religious vse pertaining to my worship and service which I may self haue not commanded no nor the liknes of any such thing either in forme or vse so that if these things in question be but like popish devices and be not coÌ„manded by God we may not for any cause or consideration or in any respect whatsoeuer bowe downe vnto them that is intertaine or shewe forth any reuerent estimation of them and so onely in a good meaning for peace and quietnes sake coform vnto them in the worship of God Vnlesse therfore the verie touching of holy things in or by the soundnes of some doctrines in our Church and so as it were carrying a part of holy flesh in the skirt of our garment or divine service be a sufficient warrant to make any ceremonie lawful yea though it be taken from the heathen poets from the Turkish Alcaron or the Popes massebook yet vpon intentionall altering of the vse they may be very safely coÌ„formed vnto in the publick worship of God their argument of haueing the substance hath no iot of substance in it at all Therefore vnlesse their words reasons and arguments whereby they perswade to coÌ„formitie come from the mouth of God we haue sufficient forewarning no not in any case to conform unto the but to esteeme them as verie chaffe huft and puft up perhaps into a verie great bulke making a goodlie shew in outward appearance by excellencie of words and art but being winnowed or tried by the fanne of the Lord no corne of grace or one grain of goodnesse can be found therein and this is the verie cause why the Lord threatens to bee or to come against such sweet tongued preachers that labour chiefly for a sweet deliverie and to that end steale the word never applying it to the right end and use but as it were by force and armes doe take and carrie away the true scence intent and meaning of the scriptures ordeined onely to maintain the truth by tricks of wit tearms of art they enforce theÌ„ at least to seem to maintaine errors even the meere Inventions of men and this in some false in many flattering and in most a dreaming kind of preaching is the onely and main cause of error and schismes diversitie of opinons sects that are among the people not bringing any other profit in the world unto their hearers but either to nuzle them still in ignorance or to bee utterlie out of loue with the trueth from hence then haue wee good warrrant to adjudge all their doctrins which are not according to the word of God to be verie lies though they shew never so great art and learning and thereby giue all good content to their auditorie For that high or large commission of all the true ministers of Christ extendes onelie to Teach the Churches to obserue and conforme unto all things not which they in wisdom and discretion shall adjudge meet and fit or think not to be forbiden but onely what-whatsoever Christ in the word hath commanded and we will abjure whatsoever we cannot prove to be his commandement if then they presse any thing which is not the commandement of Christ they goe beyond the limits of their commission yea doe more then ever our Lord himselfe would do for though indeed his 〈…〉 ctrines seemed verie strange yea impossiâ—â—e to some and others marveiled or were astonied not at his allegation of fathers or patriarkes of Councels or Rabbies and other learned authors nor at his excellencie of gifts but at his knowledge in the Scriptures for
proue your confusion Henceforth therfore I beseech you perswade no man to conformitie to religious actions without a Religious warrant no not upoÌ„ any good meaning or holie intention but Reproue them rather and professe your dislike of them yea curse and smite them and pull of their heare and take an oath of them by God not to make any such marriages but manifestlie shew your contempt of them and howsoever the wisdom of this world will censure such proceedings for most uncivill parts and indiscreet actions full of dangerous violence and unseemlie rashnes readie to tumble down and overthrow all things that dislike you yet you may remember that you haue good Nehemiah a most zealous and godly prince and Christ lesus the meekest of all the Lambes of God for your patterns and presidents and therfore most worthie patrons of such zealous courses for and in the causes of the house of God Oh how silly a part was it crie these Coole temperate discreete and indifferent persons and verie much unbeseeeming the gravitie of his person and holinesse of his profession yea rather Child then Christ-like with a scourge and that also a hundred to one of his own making to driue so many graue Ancient and most Reuerend fathers out of their holie offices and most honorable functions which they and their predecessors before them had long even time out out of minde to the comfort of many godlie and well affected people peaceably and commendablie enioyed greevouslie and most dangerously disturbing thereby the quiet settled peace of the Church which principally consisteth in these spirituall callings and outward condition thereof which were largelie allowed and highly approved of by the publick coÌ„sent of the whole Empire as most fitting for that present gouernment yea and not content herewith to use them with most base unreverent and dispitefull termes calling them I meane these graue spirituall and reverent men arrant theeues these their ecclesiasticall callings verie dens of theft as if they had harbored the veriest knaues and most greedie devowring cormorants that regarded nothing neither religion nor honestie but their â—own profit in all the world yea as if these proceedings and courses did waste more of the subiects estate and substance of the comminaltie then all the taxations or impositions of the civil magistrate and yet I tell you in your eare for I would be loth to be brought to rehearsall for it a great deale more might be said for the iustifying of the worst of these human inventions to proue them farre more convenient and everie way by many degrees more tollerable then the verie best of these in controversie amongst us henceforth therfore I advise you unlesse you will openly professe your delight in and therefore desire to haue the speech of Ashdod still sounding in your eares or dare reproue the holy Ghost for inserting in the sacred Scriptures by way of prophesie his divine warrant which alwayes carries in it what forme soever it bee of the nature of a precept for the zeale of all Gods servants in these causes of his house or publick worship I say for ever hereafter hold your peace and teach your people that they must bind themselues by an oth by God neuer to make any such marriages I meane to Conforme any more to any such mixtures in the gestures or ceremonies of religious uses in the publick worship or divine service of our holie God for do not these words for I the Lord thy God am a Iealous God inferre plainly that strange ceremonies and callings uncommanded gestures or actions having state in Religious worship are no more allowed of him but even as hatefull and abominable at least as these strange mariages Though therfore your ministery abound in all excellent admirable gifts that amongst many nations there be none like unto you for your multitude and all maner of learning and other worthy endowments yet as strange women caused even Salomon himself most fearfully to sin so these unlawful ceremonies callings and the amiable but most strange preferments which in by conformity to them are obtained do so intice and allure you as they cause you even many that are of most excellent parts to suscribe to verie strange positions and practises for the upholding the Reputation and credit of these Courses to put in practise strange coÌ„clusions Shall we then obey you and doe all this great evill and to transgresse against our God even to marrie strange wiues or to conforme to these strange or uncoÌ„manded ceremonies gestures in the worship of God seing though the Lord promiseth to shew mercie unto thousands yet it is only to those that keep his commaÌ„dements so that unlesse these ceremonies callings and gestures be the commandements of God the Church hath no promise of him for a blessing what affectioÌ„s soever they use theÌ„ with all but rather of a curse though their inteÌ„tions be never so good in their owne perswasions by conforming unto them VVhat then though it were true that they be not forbidden yet I beseech you consider whether not being commanded they be not at the verie best that can possibly be made of them a spice of Ephraims base mixture Indeed our substance or doctrine of the Church publickly professed is as one side of a cake upon the hearth very wel baked but the other side of our worship consisting of ceremonies and callings actions or gestures is very dough and was never yet throughly turned who dare then haue so base an opinion of the Almighty as to consent or conforme in any respect to offer such unsavoury bread in the divine worship of our holy God seeing all the wit Art and learning in the whole world can never make it holesome VVhat are his eyes growne dimme that hee cannot see both sides or is his taste so decayed that he cannot perceiue our halfe-baked service or is he no better or no more to be regarded but that any thing is good enough for him in his service The watch men of Ephraim should bee with my God and teach nothing but what he hath commanded but the Prophet or Preacher is as the snare of a fowler in all his wayes all his study and care is how hee may prevaile with his hearers to ensnare their mindes by conformitie to mens Inventions in Gods worship and so bring hatred into the house of his God O foolish people how long will ye be ignorant and commit your soules to spirituall men that are mad even without any government of Gods spirit or direction of the scriptures for is all the learning and wisedome in the world without these any better then lunacie what louely grapes did your fathers times bring forth how many sweete clusters did flaming stakes affoord but you haue separated your selues by conformitie unto the shame or similitude of the inventions of Baal Peor which are the Abhomination as well as the idolatry
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
of God which is good which nothing possibly can be but that which comes from God the sole author of whatsoever is good For howsoever it cannot bee denied but that surely there is a spirit in man and great excellencie of learning wisedome government and discretion in the subordinate tutors or teachers of this other master yet the inspiration of the Almightie or the inspired word of God onely by the effectuall working of the holy Ghost giveth understanding especially in all things of a religious use in the publick worship of God To ground religious conformity therefore vpon any thing els whatsoeuer is directly to forsake the right way and there is but two wayes the one of truth which is streight and narow and but a few that will subscribe vnto it and to go astraie and follow the broad way or to learne the easie lesson of Balaam the sonne of Bosor which loued the wages of vnrighteousnesse I iudge none but intreate all to take heede of those swelling wordes of this other Schoole or Synagogue full of vanitie least they bee beguiled by them and so bee wrapped also in their error especially to take heede of the second entangling for the latter end of such is farre worse then the beginning to whom the black darknes is reserued for euer Seing then there be but two chiefe masters God and the Deuill and but two wayes grace and nature and seing all that ground their conformitie truly on the scriptures are in the way of truth though imprisonment and other grievances inflicted on them make it some thing streight and narrow and are verily taught of God it must needs follow that all that ground their conformitie vpon any thing els or vpon these erroniously are taught of the diuel which their maner of reasoning allegation of their best authorities doth not obscurely discouer But here perhaps one will strike me on the face and say why should the clay call the potter to account why hee made it thus or so or why should our adversaries demand why this gesture of kneeling should not be as comely and as comfortable as a table gesture Surely I for my part can say no more but ipse dixit our master whose teaching we onely rely upon hath by his own practise openly and solemnlie published and proclaimed in the word as with a silver trumpet to all Churches and congregations for ever the excellent and divine dignitie thereof The other master teaches from fathers and counsels from the precepts of men yea as he bragges from unitie Antiquitie and universalitie as with the verie quintessence of Parnassus melodie that kneeling in the verie act of receiving the holie bread and wine in the Lords supper is the most humble thankfull reverent and fittest gesture in the the whole world yea far beyond that of the table Thus either master hath flows in a different sence let everie servant disciple or scholler therefore cleaue fast to his own master and quite forsake yea hate and despise the other but ô man who art thou are thou mortall must thou come to Iudgement and yet darest thou aske a question of the immortall sonne of God in his members or servants why the gesture which he made choice of and used and ordeined should bee better then that which the sonne of perdition devised and exalted mayest thou not as well aske why there should be any Sabboth or but one not two why two sacraments and not seven why he wrote to 7. Churches and not onely to the metropolitan why wives should be subject to their husbands more then in name or the Church unto Christ further then in shew let us examine and trie these things therefore whether they be of faith for else they are sin yea no man can be ignorant of this that if Christ do not warrant them by his word they are reprobated and serue for no other use but to bring some to reprobation and to hinder others in the means of their salvation for as there is no law or condemnation against any fruit of the spirit or against them in whom it is yea though the world make a law against it yet is great consolation to be found in suffering for it even so if these things in question be the lusts or inventions of the flesh then can they not possibly serue to any other use but to fulfill the will of the flesh and of the mind and so in their verie nature are as I may say the children of wrath as well as others even as well as those damnable devises of sacrificing for the quick and the dead of disposing of crowns of dispensations with corporall and spirituall adulteries or Incests and other like hellish abominations or humane inventions for they al com frō one the same root flow out of one the same fountain haue all every one of them as good warrant by the doctrine of this second master one as another even from the prince that ruleth in the aire that spirit which worketh in whatsoever is not donne in the obedience of faith in all things of Religious use Dare we then conforme in the Religious actions or gestures of our bodie to the ceremonies of that spirituall harlot or to the likenesse of them especially seing in this great secret or mystery of our union with Christ wee are now ioyned in a far neerer bond unto God then in the innocent estate and therefore a far greater and stricter subjectiō is required at our hand True indeed by creation wee were the lovely sonnes and amiable daughters of the most high having no thing uncomely nor any disposition thereunto in any part of us but by sin we made our selves strangers yea enemies most filthie and euen loathsome to look upon yet even in this estate to look upon when he saw us polluted in our own bloud or filthy nature when we were naked and bare utterlie void of all goodnesse or any disposition thereunto even starke dead by sinne in sinne I say in this hatefull condition hee looked upon 〈◊〉 with the eyes of his love and covered yea clothed our filthinesse with the skirts of his own righteousnesse and sware unto us even entred into covenant with us and so contracted vs to him self to be come wholy and in all things his and his onely euen flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone therfore did he wash us in that fountaine of the house of Dauid and annointed vs with an ointment from that holy one decking vs with all spirituall ornaments of grace and sanctification of life so that his holines in the Godly though never so contemptible to the world is become as truly glorious and honorable as a kingdom euen as wickednes makes the mightie and great ones in the world ignominious and contemptible Is it possible therefore to expresse what great and iust cause we haue
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