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Anto. It is perilous to attempt any new thing in the Church, unto which the example of the Prophets, of Christ, and of the Apostles, are contrary: for in their time all things were most corrupt, the people were miserably given to superstition, the Priests despised the law of God, yet we never read that the Prophets made any schisms, and Christ haunted the Temples and taught in them daily, Peter and John went into the Temple at the ninth hour of prayer, Paul after the reading of the law desired to say some thing unto the people: neither Christ nor his Apostles did refuse to pray with others, to sacrifice or be partaker of Moses law.

Anto. It is perilous to attempt any new thing in the Church, vnto which the example of the Prophets, of Christ, and of the Apostles, are contrarie: for in their time all things were most corrupt, the people were miserably giuen to superstition, the Priests despised the law of God, yet we neuer read that the Prophets made any schismes, and Christ haunted the Temples and taught in them daily, Peter and Iohn went into the Temple at the ninth houre of prayer, Paule after the reading of the law desired to say some thing vnto the people: neyther Christ nor his Apostles did refuse to pray with others, to sacrifice or be partaker of Moses law.

Ridley. The Prophets, Christ, nor the Apostles did not communicate with the people in any kind of worshipping forbidden by the law, or repugnant to the word. Saint Augustine in his Epistle Ad Januarium, speaking of the ceremonies of the Jews, he saith, They were burdens of the law which were delivered by the word of God, and not by the presumptions of men; but now the ceremonies are of men, and contrary to the word of God, and therefore not to be borne. In the story of Tobias, when all other went to the golden calves of Jeroboam to worship, he alone went to the Temple of the Lord to worship In the third of Kings the man of God threatened terrible plagues to the Priest of Bethel, and to the Altar which Jeroboam had made, which came to pass by King Josiah. The Prophets vehemently rebuked the people still for going a whoring with their Hill-Altars: and this was the chief cause wherefore the false Prophets ceased not to malign the true Prophets, therefore they beat them, and banished them. How otherwise can you understand the saying of S. Paul, What concord hath Christ with Belial, the believer with the Infidel, & the temple of God with Idols: for we are said to be Gods temple because God dwelleth in us: wherefore we are bidden to come out & separate our selves from them, and to touch no unclean thing, and God will receive us and be our Father, and we shall be his Sons and Daughters. In the 12. of Judith, she would not defile her self with the meats of the wicked. The Maccabees died manfully in the defence of the Law: S. Augustine saith, If we praise the Maccabees for their stoutness for the Law of Moses, how much more ought we to suffer all things for our baptism and the Lords supper, which the Mass utterly abolisheth and corrupteth.