was never delivered by any man divinely inspired; but invented by your first Reformers, who (as I have sayd chap. 22. s. 1.) taking the whole summe of faith revealed, topt, & lopt off it as much, as they pleased, & from them you have not the Christian; but the Protestant faith, Fides temporum, non Evangeliorum; a faith of the times not of the Ghospels, says Tertul. Were these the men of God divinely inspired & assisted by miracles?
G. B. pag. 116. The doctrines about which we differ, can pretend to no such divine Originall.
ANS. You know we hold this not to be tru: we receved all by the some authority, from the same hand.
G. B. pag. 117. What man sent of God was the first Authour of the beleife of the corporall presence, of the Sacrisice of the Masse, of the Popes supremacy, of Purgatory, of Indulgences, & of all those innu∣merable superstitions; of which scripture is absolu∣tely silent.
ANSWER. Christ was a man sent of God, & he was the first Authour of them.
G. B. Ibidem. If these doctrines were not the off spring of Revelations, we cannot be oblidged to beleive them as such.
ANS. Your former legerdemain comes again, another conviction of your disingenous procee∣ding. This appeares by these Propositions: If the Bible were not the off spring of Revelation, we should not be bound to beleive it. If Christ were not