As touching M. Bucers, M. Bullingers, and Illyricus allowance of them, if they meane such a celebration of them, as that in those dayes the people may be assembled, and those partes of the Scriptures which concerne them whose remembraunce is solemnised, redde & expounded, and yet men not debarred after from their dayly workes, it is so much the lesse matter: if otherwise that good leaue they giue the Churches to dissent from them in that poynte. I do take it graunted vnto me, being by the grace of God one of the Churche.
Although as touching M. Bullinger, it is to be obserued, since the time that he wrote that vpon the Romanes, there are aboute. 35. yeares, sithence which time although he holde still that the feastes kept vnto the Lorde, as of the Natiuitie, Easter and Pentecoste, dedicated vnto the Lord may be kept, yet he demeth flatly, that it is lawfull to keepe holy the dayes of the Apostles, as* 1.1 it appeareth in the confession of the Tiguryne Church ioyned with others.
How perfect an Answere this is, to these learned mennes authorities, lette the learned Reader iudge. You are not a Churche, but a member of the Churche, and therefore seing the matter is such as the Churche may take an order in, you ought to submitte your selfe to the determination of that Churche in such matters, whereof you are a member.
What M. Bullinger hath in any other place consented vnto, I knowe not, but certayne it is that these be his owne woordes, And that when he writte them he was of the same opinion that we are at this tyme in this Church of England.