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An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
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Sect. 7. Exc. 3.
Ans. [It appears by the greatest evidences of Antiquity, that it was upon the 25. day of Decemb. S. Aug. Psal. 132.]
Repl. It is not August. alone in Psal. 132. that must tell us which way [the greatest evidences of Antiquity] go: And his reasoning that John must ⟨p. 106⟩decrease, and Christ must increase, as proved by Johns being born, when the days decrease, and Christs being born when the days increase, doth not much invite us to receive his testimony. We conceive the ancient opinion of Jerusalem, and other Eastern Churches, that were nearest to the place, is a greater Argument for the contrary, then you have here given us for what you thus affirm: we might set Epiphan. against August. and call the Greek Churches, till the midst of Chrysostoms time, when they changed their opinion, and in our time the Judgement of the Famous Chronologers, Scaliger, Berraldus, Broughton, Calvisius, Cappellus, Clopenburgius, with many others, are not contemptible, as set against such an unproved Assertion as this.
Repl. It is not August. alone in Psal. 132. that must tell us which way [the greatest evidences of Antiquity] go: And his reasoning that John must