The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…

The Means to be used unto such an Evangelical Accommodation, are,

1. Out of a sincere love of all truth, to wait with humble, docile and tractable hearts upon God, in the use of such means as he hath appointed, for the revealing of his mind unto us touching those things about which we differ, and for that purpose with single hearts to study the Scriptures, and to weigh every opinion in the balance of the Sanctuary; ⁿThis, the Apostle saith, is profitable for Doctrine and for Reproof: to this he referreth the Church against all danger of Wolves; out of this our Lord revealed to his Disciples the things which concerned himself; by this the^o Ancients desired to have the Controversies in their times stated and decided. And ⟨p. 73⟩when any of them teach us to try Doctrines by Ecclesiastical Tradition, and the witness of the Church, they speak of Apostolical Churches, which Tertullian calleth Matrices & Originals, and not barely of the peremptory decision of some one or other^p present or particular Church; for they were able to draw down from the Apostles,^q Traducem fidei, as Tertullian calls it, a Doctrinal Succession, to assign the Time, the Authors, & the Posteriority of those Heresies, which they gain-said, as he saith,^r Solemus Haereticis compendii causa de posterioritate praescribere. Now because we cannot understand the things of God but by the Spirit of God, for