The Supremacy of Holy Scripture Four Lectures Composed for Delivery Before the
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53 on the Traditions which had of old been received among them, and for which it would have been quite as easy and plausible to have assumed a patriarchal authority as it is to refer any Christian traditions to the teaching of the Apostles. We know too that these traditions of the elders had assumed a systematic form long before the Ad vent, and that the Jews regarded them as the oral law, and of the same authority, and even antiquity, as the written law, for they believed that both were reveal...ed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and should therefore be received by his Church, to adopt the language of the Council of Trent, " ])ari jnetatis affectu, ac reverentia" The two cases are strictly parallel ; and yet a single text will be sufficient to give our Lord's decision on this important matter. "Ye have made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. " " In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. "'' So that our Lord decides this point, and declares that a tracUtion of extreme antiquity, received by what would be regarded as the entire sound or orthodox portion of the Jewish Church, and which professed to explain doubtful points of Scripture, and to sup- ply a rule where Scripture was silent, came under the condemnation of adding to God's word, was ^ Matt.
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