A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

EXCEPT. XXVI. Answered. p. 16. I¹ entreat the Reader to peruse my words which you except against so angrily, and I am assured, he will find them useful to him, in the great Question Who shall be Judge? And to help him out of his perplexities. 1. It is a notorious untruth that you say, [It is altogether a new way of deciding Controversies, to affirm Dictator like, in all points of belief or practice which are of necessity to Salvation, you must ever keep company with the Universal Church.] Be it right or wrong, who knoweth not that knoweth what was held of old, that it is the way that Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius, Hierome, Augustine, Optatus, and abundance more have largely written for: And which Vincentius Lirinensis wrote his book for, (Quod semper, ubique, & ab omnibus, &c.)

EXCEPT. XXVI. Answered. p. 16. I¹ intreat the Reader to peruse my words which you except against so angrily, and I am assured, he will find them useful to him, in the great Question Who shall be Iudge? And to help him out of his perplexities. 1. It is a notorious untruth that you say, [It is altogether a new way of deciding Controversies, to affirm Dictator like, in all points of belief or practice which are of necessity to Salvation, you must ever keep company with the Universal Church.] Be it right or wrong, who knoweth not that knoweth what was held of old, that it is the way that Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius, Hierome, Augustine, Optatus, and abundance more have largely written for: And which Vincentius Lirinensis wrote his book for, (Quod semper, ubique, & ab omnibus, &c.)

1. 1Of the judgement of the Universal Church.Of the judgement of the Unive•sal Church.

2. Note, Reader, that he leaveth out, that I said here [no man must be Judge, no, not the universal Church, but only that they are our associates, and that here every Christian maketh the Articles of his Faith his own, and upon no mans authority, &c.] But I maintain that