that knoweth that hee shall come short of his ac∣counts,
and in the proofe of his pretended right, it is his
safest and easiest way to avoid the comming to any ac∣count,
or triall at all. Where contrariwise, hee that hath
a cleare conscience, his reckonings ready, his cause good,
doth flye nothing more then such shifts; and desires, and
endeauours aboue all to bee heard throughly, fearing least
the prescription, exceptions, and pretences of cun∣ning
wranglers, though hee could make vse of them,
should darken the equitie of his cause, and leaue
behind it this scruple, that his cause in the issue of
it, will prooue like to those other vnto which it
hath some resemblance in the proceeding. Would
to GOD all men in the controversies of religion,
were of the same opinion, and had the same cou∣rage,
and true meaning, which humaine and civill
wisdome doth suggest to vs in our law suites, that
wee would bee willing to come to an issue. And
since wee all agree that our heauenly Father hath not
left vs without a Testament, that wee on both sides,
know by what Notaries it hath beene receiued, where
they haue enrolled it, since wee haue the law and the
testimony, that wee would also haue our recourse with
a joynt consent, to that Testament, to those Notaries, to
their Registers, and say with one and the same voyce af∣ter
the Prophet, To the law and to the testimony, if they
speake not according to this word, it is because there is no light
in them.
Truely God revealeth not his will; the Prophets, the
Apostles teach it not, but by his word; wee haue this word,
what can wee aske more? would wee know what the
judgement of God is, what the testimony of the Pro∣phets,
and Apostles are concerning that doctrine? ought
not God himselfe to declare it? should not the Prophets
and Apostles Publish it? Wee haue this declaration, wee
haue (no Christian doubteth thereof) the authentique coppy