Deuteronomy — Chapter 4
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Verse 2
You shal not adde.] Moyses can not meane, that no more should be written, nor commanded; for then the last chapter of this book, and the rest of the bible should not haue been written after his death; neither ought the Priests or Prophets to haue commanded anie thing not expressed in the law. And wheras Protestants say that al other Scriptures are included in the law, or pertaine to the explication or performance thereof: we also answer that vnwritten Traditions both in the old and new Testament are likewise implied, included, or pertaine to the explication or performance of the law. For euen as the written doctrine of the Prophets, yea and of Christ, and his Apostles, in general is conteined in the law of Moyses, so also are certaine fasts, feasts, rites, ceremonies, and other traditions proued and confirmed by general speaches and axiomes written in holie Scriptures, as by our Sauiours words to his Apostles Luc.10. He that heareth you, heareth me. S. Paul's to other Christians (1. Cor. 10.) other things when I come I wil dispose (2. Thess 2.) Hold the traditions which you haue learned; and the like. Wherupon S. Augustin in Li. 1. cont. Cresion. c. 33. giueth this rule, that albeit an euident example can not be produced of holie Scripture, yet the truth of the same Scriptures is holden by vs, when we doe that which pleaseth the whole Church, which the Authoritie of Scriptures commendeth. The same commanded he teacheth Epist. 80. and in manie other places. So doe S. Epiphanius, S. Hierom Dialog. cont. Lucifer. c. 4. S. Chrysost. ho. 4. in 1. Thess. approueth S. Basil. de Spiritu Sancto, c. 39. S. Ireneus li. 3. c. 4. — As other Scriptures are included in the law, so also Traditions are conteined in the Scriptures.