Concerning the

Primitive RULE of FAITH, Translated from their Originals: With NOTES, for the Advantage chiefly of English Readers, and a PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE upon each Author.

Tu feito nobis nihil effe antiquius quam Chrifti jura fervare, nec Patrum

transferre terminos.

Hieronym. Epif. 68. ad Theo.

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THE

CONTENTS

OF THE

PREFACE

CONCERNING THE

Right USE of the FATHERS.

HE Ufefulness of the Fathers in our Mother-
Tongue, with their Advantages above Mo-
derns, efpecially in reporting Matters of

Fact of their own Times

P. 3--13

8

What fort of Pe fection is in the Scriptures, what

various Senfes of it Interpreters give

The Original of the Apoftolick Conftitutions

IS

The Senfe and Practice of the Fathers the beft Deter-

mination of controverted Texts, and Do&rines 19

Inftanc'd in frequent Communion, Infant-Sup-

tifm, the Obfervation of the Lord's Day Sub-

jection to Magiftrates, Epifcopacy

20

35

Modern Criticks how different from former

Objections against the Fathers propofed and answered

36

1 Obj. From the difficulty of knowing the true Senfe

of the Ancients, becaufe

1. Many of their Writings are loft, which may con-

tain different Relations from what is found in those

d' an extant.

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2. Their