Positions lately held by the L. Du Perron, Bishop of Eureux, against the sufficiency and perfection of the scriptures maintaning the necessitie and authoritie of vnwritten traditions. Verie learnedly answered and confuted by D. Daniell Tillenus, Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Sedan. VVith a defence of the sufficiency and perfection of the holy scriptures by the same author. Faithfully translated.

D. Tillenus his answer.

Seing Baptisme bringeth the same spirituall fruit to the children of Christians, that Circumcision brought to the children of the Iews, as hath bene shewed; this consideration of a corporall mark is friuolous. The circumcised child can no more know nor remember, how and wherefore his fore∣skin was cut off, than the Christian child his baptisme, and therfore both the one & the other, must be instructed, when he is capable thereof. In Abraham, who was adopted into the couenant in a perfect age, knowledge, instruction and faith went before the Sacrament: but in Isack born in the couenāt the Sacrament went before knowledge, because according to the promis, he was reputed the child of God from his mo∣thers womb. So we do not confer Baptism, to the child of a Jew or a Pagā: & we blame the church of Rome, which cōmit¦teth this abuse, prostituting the sign of the couenant, to those that are not cōprehēded therin, not staying til they may enter into it by knowledge & faith: which is as great a mockery, as to set a seale to a paper, wherin there is nothing written.