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: