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M. F. p. 69.
I readily acknowledge, that the Articles and Precepts of Religion, may in some ca∣ses and circumstances be safe∣ly preserved and securely conveyed down from age to age by oral Tradition; name∣ly when the things themselves to be preserved and reported are few, the number of the persons to be instructed in them small; the age of those to whom the successive com∣munication is given, length∣ened
out to several hundreds of years, &c.
Dr. Tillotson, Rule of Faith, p. 33.
We grant that oral Tradi∣tion in some circumstances may be a sufficient way of convey∣ing a Doctrine, &c. in the first ages of the world, when the credenda or Articles of Religion, and the agenda or precepts of it were but few, and such as had the evidence of natural light; when the world was contracted into a few Families in comparison, and the age of man was ordina∣rily
extended to six or seven hundred years, &c.