A second admonition to the parliament

But it is to be used continually / for the exercise of the ministers / and others / as it should seem by the §30Apostle in the place to the Corinthians / to exercise their gates in the interpretation of the scriptures. I call that a synod provincial / which is the meeting of certain of the consistory of every parish¹ within a province / which is of many conferences / as it might be that which is called Canterburies province / if it be not to large / and therefore of some one or moe dioceses: where ⟨p. 31⟩great causes of the churches / which could not be ended in their own consistories / or conferences / shall be heard and determined / and so they shall stand / except when a more general Synod / and council of the whole land be / which I call national / and they will have it heard there / to whose determination they shall stand / except there be a more general Synod of all churches / and that they will have it heard there / and determined / §10whereto they shall stand / as it was at Jerusalem / except it be a great matter of the faith / or a great matter expressly against the scriptures / as that was in the Nicene council of the marriage of ministers / where the whole council would have concluded against it / had not one man Paphnutius withstood them / or that assembly² where Nicodemus only withstood the rest / or that at Antioch where Peter and Barnabas³ and all the Jews were entered into a dissimulation §20/ and only Paul withstood them. In which case the scripture saith / you have one father / one master / and hear him / and examine all things / and hold that which is good / and try the spirits whether they be of God / or no / and⁴ again sayeth the apostle: Though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you then that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed. Except I say it be in such