Excerpt from A Discourse About Tradition: Shewing What Is Meant by It, and What Tradition Is to Be Received, and What Tradition Is to Be Rejected Traditions, which were certainly once in the'chureh, but now utterly loll. There is no queliion to be made, but the Apoflles taught the firlt Chrifiians the meaning of thofe hard places 'which we find in their and Other hol Writings. But who can tell us where to find certainly fo much as one of them? And there fore where is the fidelity of this Church, which boafis fo much to be the Keeper of. Facred Traditions? For nothing is more deh rable than tho e Apofiolical Interpretations of Scripture; no thing could be more ufeful and yet we have no hope to meet with them either there, or indeed any where elfe. Which is no reproach to Other Churches, who do not pretend to more than is written; but reflefis much upon them, and difcredits them, who challenge the power of the whole 'church intirely, and would palis not onely for the fole Kee rs and Witnelies of Divine Truth; but for careful prefervers o it. For of what (hould they have been more careful than of thefe ufeful things, whereof they can tell us noihingi when of unprofitable Ceremonies they have mofi devoutly kept, if we could believe them, a very great num her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.