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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01344	Ioseph's partie-colored coat containing, a comment on part of the 11. chapter of the 1. epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians : together with severall sermons, namely, [brace] 1. Growth in grace, 2. How farre examples may be followed, 3. An ill match well broken off, 4. Good from bad friends, 5. A glasse for gluttons, 6. How farre grace may be entayled, 7. A christning sermon, 8. Faction confuted / by T.F.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 11466.3; ESTC S4310	83,852	200

their set number how many there be of them but still reckon them up with an Et Caetera leave still a Plus ultra to place more in if need require And as the Athenians for feare they should omit any Deity erected an Altar to the unknowne God So the Papists in summing up their Traditions will not compleat their number but are carefull to leave Blankes and void places for a Refuge and Retreating Place that in case they be prest in Disputation and cannot prove their point by places of Scripture they may still plead it is a Tradition 4. Whereas the word Tradition is taken in severall senses and there be many kinds of them Papists jumble and confound them together As Cheaters use to cast their counterfeit coyne amongst good gold hoping so to passe it away currant and undiscovered So they shuffle false and true Traditions together in one heape that the bad may goe off under the countenance and protection of the good Wee will marre their Mart by sorting them into these severall Rankes 1. Traditions in a generall sense are taken for things delivered though in Scripture by Christ and his Apostles thus Saint Basil cals Baptising In the name of the F S. and H G. a Tradition 2. For such matters of Faith which are not found in Scripture totidem verbis in the words and sound but yet in the same sense and substance or at least may by faithfull consequence bee thence deduced as the Trinity of Persons two wils in Christ his Consubstantiality with God the Father Thus Lindan a Papist cals Originall sinne a Tradition 3. For such opinions against which nothing appeares in Scripture and the Church in all times and ages have maintained them condemning the Opposers for erroneous As that the Mother of Christ was ever a Virgin 4. For such Rites and Ceremonies of the Church no matters of Faith which therein have beene used from great Antiquity and therefore probably might have their Original from the Apostles As Fasting in Lent though the manner time and continuance in keeping it was very different in severall Churches Take Traditions in the first and second acception wee account them to have equal force and authority with the Written Word In the third sense wee honour and embrace them as true In the last Acception wee approve and practise them as decent and ancient provided alwayes they be not obtruded as things necessary to salvation but indifferent in their nature But all this makes nothing for the blacke Guard of Romish Traditions which lag still behind some of them frivolous As this Apostolical Tradition That a Priest if against their wils they receive any money from wicked men they must in no case expend it on meat but to buy wood coals Some impious and blasphemous worshipping of Images prayers to Saints the Sacrifice of the Masse Purgatory c. having nothing for them much against them in Gods written Word To draw to a conclusion Scriptures besides many others have two most principall priviledges above Traditions First their Infallibilitie as being inspired by the Spirit of God 2 Pet. 1.20 So that yee first know this that no prophecie of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation vers. 21. For the Prophecie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost As for the authors of Traditions they might both falli and fallere be deceived themselves and deceive others They might be deceived themselves either by mis-understanding the Traditions delivered unto them or by mis-remembring or by mis-relating them againe They might deceive others either unwillingly by these forenamed slips and infirmities or else willingly and wittingly by venting those things as received from the Apostles which they had not received from them And by usurpation intitling the fancies of your owne heads to bee Apostolicall Precepts 2. The Providence of God plainely appeares in his preserving of the Scriptures against all oppositions Many a time from my youth up may the Scriptures now say yea many a time have they fought against me from my youth but they could not prevaile against me Neither Antiochus before Christ nor Iulian the Apostate since him nor the force of Tyrants nor the fraud of Heretikes though the world of late hath scarce yeelded a wicked sharpe wit that hath not given the Scriptures a gash could ever suppresse them Their treading on this Cammimell made it grow the better and their snuffing of this candle made it burne the brighter Whereas on the other side the Records of Traditions are lost and those bookes wherein they where compiled and composed Aut in curia hominum aut injuria temporis or by some other sinister accident are wholly miscarried and no where appeare Papias is reported by * Eusebius in five bookes to have contained all the Apostolicall Traditions which they call the Word not written by Bellarmine himselfe confessed that these are lost Likewise Clemens Alexandrinus as the same Eusebius storieth it wrote in a booke those Traditions which hee received from the Elders and they from the Apostles which booke the Papists themselves at this day cannot produce I will conclude all with Gamaliels words Act. 5.39 But if it be of God yee cannot destroy it Had these bookes beene inspired by Gods Spirit no doubt the same Providence would have watched to preserve them which hath protected the Scripture Let us therefore leaving uncertaine Traditions stick to the Scriptures alone trust no Doctrine on its single band which brings not Gods word for its security Let that Plate be beaten in peeces which hath not this Tower-stampe upon it That the Lord Iesus the same night wherein he was betrayed Christ bestowed the greatest courtesie on mankind when hee foresaw that hee should receive the greatest cruelty from them O that wee were like minded with our Saviour to move fastest in Piety when wee draw neerest the Center of Death and then chiefly to study to fasten favours on our Enemies Why did Christ institute it then and not before Because dying men bequeath not their Legacies till they make their wils nor departing friends bestow their tokens till they take their farewell 2. Because till then the Passeover a Sacrament in the same kind did continue in full force and the Lords Supper was not to bee lighted til the Passover was first fairly put out Seeing Christ appoynted it a Supper how comes it now to be a Dinner God hath instrusted the discretion of his Church on just occasion to alter some circumstances in the Sacrament True it is such circumstances as are Sacramental not only of the Commission at large but also of the Quorum nomina whose absence or alteration maims and mangles the Sacrament are unchangeable But Common and ordinary circumstances such as is the Time Place Kind of Bread and Wine the Church hath power to alter by vertue of a Warrant left