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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 ⟨p. 33⟩Te Deum, and all that made and prescribed Psalms, Hymns and Prayers; and Calvin that made a Liturgy; and Bucer, and the Martyrs here, and all that prescribed Translations and Metres, &c. so well, as to know that all these, and almost all the Churches on Earth do suppose Christ to be unfaithful?

1. 1XXXV. Error.

2. Is it only such a charge or Supposition against Christ, which made you your self prescribe your form of Church-Covenant, your Savoy Articles, your Catalogue of Fundamentals, your Lay-Elders, your time and place of Meeting, your Utensils and Ornaments at the Sacraments, &c?

3. I tell you another possible end, They did it, because they thought that these Modes are mutable according to Persons, Place, Time, Occasion, &c. And therefore, that it belonged not to Christs faithfulness to determine them, and that they should deny his faithfulness if they did deny that it hath left them to humane Determination under general Rules, and bid the people obey them that have the rule over you, &c.