SECT. XIII.
TO many testimonies alledged out of the Fathers, answer is given, 1. That they speake not of things onely beside the Scripture, but of things contrary: which answer is againe repeated under the forme of a distinction betwixt Scriptura negans, and negata. 2. They speak not of ceremonies, but of doctrines.
To vvhich the reply is easie: 1. our meaning is mistaken, I feare, wilfully, when wee are made authours of an opposite di∣stinction betwixt beside and against in this case. It sufficeth vs that beside in poynts of religion, bee all one with against. 2 Though those generall sayings be applyed to doctrines in most of the pla∣ces alledged, yet that hindereth not, but▪ the truth of them may be taken so generally, as to include also religious ceremonies. A particular or proper conclusion may be drawne from a generall proposition, and yet the proposition remaine generall still in the largest extent that it is capable of.