Now 'tis tradition joined with holy writ;
But thus your memory betrays your wit.
No, said the Panther; for in that I view,
When your tradition's forged, and when 'tis true.
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I set them by the rule, and, as they square, }
Or deviate from undoubted doctrine there, }
This oral fiction, that old faith declare.— }
Hind. The council steered, it seems, a different course;
They tried the scripture by tradition's force: