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* 1.1The example of Grego. Na∣zian. and Basil be to faythfull christians a sufficient rule to fo∣low, which if we do, we wyl say awaye with thenglishe Bibles, away, they can not be abiden.
For the readers therof passe of no expositions of the fathers, but onlye stycke to theyr owne bare taking of scripture as thei phancye it, and as they please: where as these .ii. holy doctours studied scripture together, not
presumptuously folowing their owne imaginatiō, but folowing the doctrine and authoritie of the elders, whom they knew to haue receyued the vnderstāding of scripture euyn by succession from the Apostels.
Scripturarum intelligentiam non ex propria praesumptione, sed ex maiorū scriptis & au¦toritate se∣quebātur quos et ipsos ex apos∣tolica successiōe intelligendi re¦gulā suscepisse constabat, Haec Eusebi. lib. xi. Eccl. cap. ix.