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The Rejoinder addeth, that Calvin in the place alleged, doeth account these pretended additions to have been corruptions, from the first. Now (though this is not here, but in another place, after to be handled) let the Reader guess of Calvins account, by these his words: Afterward there came teachers who did not think themselves should be esteemed acute enough unless they did patch something of their own to the word of God. ¹Yet no addition to that word is tolerable. Those secondary laws are devised of curious men, as if the single and simple command of God were not enough. To invent new washings was an idle vanity. Had they rested in the law of God their modesty wou•d have ben more pleasing to him, then their Scrupulous anxiety in doing otherwise.

The Rejoynder addeth, that Calvin in the place alledged, doeth account these praetented additions to have been corruptions, from the first. Now (though this is not heer, but in another place, after to be handled) let the Reader gesse of Calvins account, by these his words: Afterward there came teachers who did not think themselves should be esteemed acute enough unlesse they did patch something of their owne to the word of God. ¹Yet no addition to that word is tolerable. Those secondarie lawes are devised of curious men, as if the single and simple command of God were not enough. To invent new washinges was an idle vanity. Had they rested in the law of God their mod•sty wou•d have ben more pleasing to him, then their Scrupulous anxiety in doing otherwise.

1. 1Superveneran• doct•res qu•se non •uta•ant sat•s acutos ha•itum •ri, nisi aliquid assuerent vervo Dei Nulla tollerabilis est ad legem Dei accessio Secundarie illae leges a curiosis hominbus inventae sunt, quasi simplex Dei mandatum non sufficeret. Novas ablutions comminisci, otiosa vanitatis fuit. Si acqutevissent in leg Dei, magis illi probata suisset modestia, quam scrupulosa anxieta.