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Our Argument lieth thus. That which is most conform to the Doctrine and Practice of Christ and his Apostles, is the truly Ancient Religion and Church. But our Religion and Church is most conform to the doctrine and practice of the Apostles: therefore it is the truly ancient Religion and Church. The Major they will yield: For no older Religion is desirable, further then as the Law of Nature and Moral Determinations of God are still in force. I suppose they will not plead for Judaism. For the Minor, we lay our cause upon it, and are ready to produce our evidence for the Conformity of our Religion and Churches to the doctrine and practice of the Apostles.

Our Argument lieth thus. That which is most conform to the Doctrine and Practice of Christ and his Apostles, is the truly Antient Religion and Church. But our Religion and Church is most conform to the doctrine and practice of the Apostles: therefore it is the truly antient Religion and Church. The Major they will yield: For no older Religion is desirable, further then as the Law of Nature and Moral Determinations of God are still in force. I suppose they will not plead for Judaism. For the Minor, we lay our cause upon it, and are ready to produce our evidence for the Conformity of our Religion and Churches to the doctrine and practice of the Apostles.

That Religion which is most conform to the Holy Scripture is most conform to the doctrine and practice of Christ and his Apostles: But our Religion (and Churches) is most conform to the holy Scriptures: therefore, &c. They can say nothing against the Major, but that the Scripture is Insufficient without Tradition: But for that, 1. We have no Rule of faith but what is by themselves confessed to be ⟨p. 117⟩true: They acknowledge Scripture to be the true word of God; So that the Truth of our Rule is Justified by themselves. 2. Let them show us as good Evidence that their Additional Articles of faith or Laws of life came from the Apostles, as we do that the Scriptures came from them, and then we shall confess that we come short of them: Let them take the Controversies between us point by point, and bring their proof, and we will bring ours, and let that Religion carry it that is Apostolical: But we are sure that by this means they will be proved Novelists. For 1. Their Traditions in matter of faith superadded to the Scripture, are mere Heretical or Erroneous forgeries, and they can give us no proof that ever they were Apostolical. 2. The Scripture affirmeth its own sufficiency; and therefore excludeth their Traditions. 3. I showed you how in their own General Council at Basil, the Scripture sufficiency was defended. 4. I have showed you in my Book called the Safe Religion, that the ancient Fathers were for the sufficiency of Scripture. 5. Their Traditions are the opinions of a dividing sect, contrary to the Traditions or doctrine of the present Catholic Church: the far greater part of Christians being against them. 6. We are able to show that the time was for some hundred years after Christ, when most of their pretended Traditions were unknown or abhorred by the Christian Church, and no such things were in being among them. 7. And we can prove that the chief points of Controversy maintained against us, are not only without Scripture, but against it, and from thence we have full particular evidence to disprove them. If the Scriptures be true, as they confess them to be, then no Tradition can be Apostolical or true that is contrary to them: For example: the Papists Tradition is, that the Clergy is exempt from the Magistrates judgement: But the holy Scripture saith [Let every soul be subject to the higher power,