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2. Complying also is an ambiguous word; if it mean an approbation of any Sin, so no man must comply. If it mean communicating in good, where there is a faulty mixture of some evil, so he that will not comply, must join with no Church, and with no Man living.

2. Complying also is an ambiguous word; if it mean an approbation of any Sin, so no man must comply. If it mean communicating in good, where there is a faulty mixture of some evil, so he that will not comply, must joyn with no Church, and with no Man living.

2. To your Minor, I answer, (passing by the misforming) in your Supposition, It is not true, that it belongeth to Christs Faithfulness to appoint and command all things whatever in the Church, ¹which belongs to the Worship of God: Else he were unfaithful in bidding them appoint many things belonging to his Worship. I have named Instances enow; which I must not still repeat; You and all Ministers belong to his Worship, and yet Christ hath not in Scripture named you, but left the Choice of you to Man. So of all Accidents undetermined.

1. 1XXXIV. Error.

It is another Error, That the Prescription of Forms and Modes of things in Worship,¹ not commanded by Christ, can arise from nothing but from Supposition of a defect in the Wisdom, care and faithfulness of Christ. I confute it, 1. You know not the hearts of all the World, and therefore cannot say, That this can arise from nothing else: Did you know Ambrose, that made the