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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Fourth accused Point.
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8. If Tradition tell us of any Customs used in the Apostles, or Primitive times, that be not in Scripture, and so be not made matters of Necessity to all; yea, or of any occasion all mutable Customs that are mentioned in Scripture, (as washing the Saints Feet, the Holy Kiss, the Woman's Veil, long or short Hair, Collections each Lords Day, Preachers Travelling on Foot, &c.) we quarrel not with the then use of such Traditions, when they were seasonable, no more than with forbearing things strangled and blood: Nor quarrel we with the Churches after, that settled Easter Day, and made the 20th. Canon of the Nicene Council, and used divers Ceremonies at Baptism. But Traditions of things Indifferent and Mutable, we receive but as such, to be laid aside when the occasion ceaseth: And if any will turn them into a necessary common Law, we disclaim such Usurpers; for they cross that very ⟨p. 28⟩Tradition. It was delivered as Indifferent, and you feign and make it a necessary Law, and so destroy it.
8. If Tradition tell us of any Customs used in the Apostles, or Primitive times, that be not in Scripture, and so be not made matters of Necessity to all; yea, or of any occasion all mutable Customs that are mentioned in Scripture, (as washing the Saints Feet, the Holy Kiss, the Womans Vail, long or short Hair, Collections each Lords Day, Preachers Travelling on Foot, &c.) we quarrel not with the then use of such Traditions, when they were seasonable, no more than with forbearing things strangled and blood: Nor quarrel we with the Churches after, that setled Easter Day, and made the 20th. Canon of the Nicene Council, and used divers Ceremonies at Baptism. But Traditions of things Indifferent and Mutable, we receive but as such, to be laid aside when the occasion ceaseth: And if any will turn them into a necessary common Law, we disclaim such Usurpers; for they cross that very ⟨p. 28⟩Tradition. It was delivered as Indifferent, and you feign and make it a necessary Law, and so destroy it.