Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason,…

But perhaps he will say, that they are of the same Religion that they ever were, but so are not the Protestants. I answer, 1. The Protestants will not undertake that none of their Ancestors from the beginning were in this, or other points, erroneous: If the Papists will, it is suitable to their other undertakings: But that we are of the same ⟨p. 21⟩Religion which all true Christians were of from the beginning, the same Baptism, the same Creed, the same Lords-Prayer and Decalogue, and the same Scriptures, owned, show: and the Lords-Supper Administered in the same words as Christ and his Apostles and the ancient Churches did. 2. But if the Protestants had not been of the same Faith with their Ancestors, what's that to the rest that are more than all the Papists? It's notable to read in their Godignus de rebus Abassinorum, how an old Woman (the Emperors Mother) confuted, or baffled the Learned papist that came with Oviedo to pervert them to the Pope, by pleading the Tradition of their Fore-fathers, that had delivered them their Religion, and never told them of the Pope. And how tenacious the Greeks are of their Religion as received from their Fathers, their very stiffness against the Roman Insertion of [Filioque ] into the Creed, sufficiently showeth. 3. But that really the Papists are Innovators, and have changed the old Religion in this Point, as we have oft fully proved out of Antiquity, so we need no other Proof than the express words of Scripture; which (to pass by the rest) in one Chapter in the three next Verses 1 Cor. 11. 26, 27, 28.) doth three times call it [Bread] after Consecration. And I never met with a Writer so impudent as dare deny but their leaving out the Cup to the Laity in the Lords-Supper is a change from the ancient Practice of the Church. And yet will this Medium serve our Rational Discourser; The present Church leaveth out the Cup, ergo so did their Fore-fathers, and so did the Apostles? And let him tell me, with the Face of a Man, if he can, whether he think in his Conscience that our Ancestors, or the first Converts of the Apostles, were not more likely to understand and remember whether the Bread and Cup ⟨p. 22⟩were both delivered by the Apostles, or the Bread alone, than to understand and remember in what sense it was that the Bread and Wine was called Christ's Body and Blood.