The seuenth Article.
That a crosse was borne at the singing or saying of the Le∣tanie, &c.
That processions came not from Gentilitie to Chri∣stians, Martial will proue, bicause processions came from tradition of ye Apostles, and that he proueth by a saying of Leo, What so euer is retained of the Church into custome of deuotion, commeth of the tradition of the Apostles, and doctrine of the holy Ghost. So is procession &c. but the minor is false, for the Church of Christ, for many hundreth yeares after Christe, knewe no processions. But if processions came from the Gentiles, saith Mar∣tial, shal we therefore condemne them? Haue we not ye liberal sciences, & many politike lawes from the Gen∣tiles? as though there were one reason of religion, and politike laws or liberal artes: the one we are forbiddē to learne of the Gentiles, the other being the giftes of God, we may take them euen from the Gentiles. Nei∣ther doth Augustine against the Manichees, whome Martial citeth lib. 20. cap. 23. Con. Faust. speake of any heathenish ceremonies receiued in Christian religion, but of such thinges▪ as we must haue common with them, like the sunne and the ayre, as meate, drinke, ap∣parel, houses, &c.
Whether processions came from the Montanistes or Arrians, certaine it is, they came not from Christe nor his Apostles. Tertullian a Montanist maketh mē∣tion of certaine stations, but I suppose they were no processions but standings. The miracle of water tur∣ned