What is all this to your purpose? who saith that eyther we must vse all thinges that the Iewes and gentiles did, or that the Church hath not authoritie to take order therein as shall be thought most conuenient? the Churche at this time, did perceiue inconueniences in these customes and ceremonies, and therefore did by ordinaris authoritie abrogate them. In like manner and vpon like considerations hathe thys Church of England abandoned great numbers of Papisticall rites and ceremonies, but bycause it refuseth some, may it therefore reteine none? or bycause it reiecteth those which be wicked and vnprofitable, may it not therefore kéepe still suche as be godly and perteine to order and decencie?
The Canon of the Councell of Laodicea is this. Non 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a Iudaeis azyma accipe∣re,* 1.1 aut communicare impietatibus eorum. That we ought not to take vnleauened bread of the 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ewes, or communicate with their impietie. And surely, I maruell what you can cōclude