O Octava.
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Sectio Octava.
7. Next he argues the Excellency of it à comparatis: And here First, He compares it with the Directory. p. 6, 7. which he adorneth with these Epithets: Useless, Suppositious, Loose, Illegitimate.
7. NExt he argues the Excellency of it à comparatis: And here First, He compares it with the Directory. p. 6, 7. which he adorneth with these Epithites: Ʋseless, Suppositious, Loose, Illegitimate.
Answ. Doctor, these are but four Epithets, have you no more? add as many more, or as many as you will, yet I must tell you, there is so much Christian, grave, and wise counsel, in order to the Worship of God, there is so much divine solidity in that Book, that no judicious godly Christian will be beaten out of love with it by all your flashy Rhetoric: Let but a man who knoweth God, the work of Grace on his heart, and hath judgment to discern the nature of an Ordinance, but compare, I know where he will see the difference. As for the Confession of Faith, the Catechism, the Directory, made by that Assembly (of which Doctor Reynolds was one) let your new Episcopal men sit till doomsday, they will never mend them.
Answ. Doctor, these are but four Epithites, have you no more? add as many more, or as many as you will, yet I must tell you, there is so much Christian, grave, and wise counsel, in order to the Worship of God, there is so much divine solidity in that Book, that no judicious godly Christian will be beaten out of love with it by all your flashy Rhetorick: Let but a man who knoweth God, the work of Grace on his heart, and hath judgment to discern the nature of an Ordinance, but compare, I know where he will see the difference. As for the Confession of Faith, the Catechism, the Directory, made by that Assembly (of which Doctor Reynolds was one) let your new Episcopal men sit till doomsday, they will never mend them.