Obiections out of the Scriptures answered.
2. Thes. 2. 15. Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye haue beene taught, whether by word, or by our Epistle.
Answ. This place, though in shew, at the first sight may seeme to helpe them; yet considering well what they in the Question vnderstand by traditions, it helpes them nothing at all.
1. Traditions here are such, as all the Thessalonians recei∣ued, and which the Apostles had taught to them all: but tra∣ditions which the Papists maintain, are certaine secret traditi∣ons deliuered, not to all, but to some sorts of men, for the bet∣ter guiding of the Church. Therefore these traditions here, are not those, these being common to all, and theirs proper to some onely.
2. This place speakes of Traditions written, which wee maintaine: but they in this question vnderstand traditions; be∣side Scripture, or a word not written in the Scriptures: how then doth this place helpe them?
3 This place doth speake indeed of traditions deliuered by word and by writing, but not of diuers traditions; as one sort spoken, and another sort written: but of a diuers way of deli∣uering the very same traditions: for first, traditions are but once here named, and applied to both Word, and Epistle. Secondly,