Wesley. We have a plain, full, and sufficient rule for gospel worship in the New Testament, recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and in the Epistles.
Bishop. We have not.
Wesley. The practice of the apostles is a standing rule in those cases which were not extraordinary.
Bishop. Not their practice, but their precepts.
Wesley. Both precepts and practice. Our duty is not delivered to us in Scripture only by precepts, but by precedents, by promises, and by threatenings mixed. We are to follow them as they followed Christ.
Bishop. But the apostle said, “This speak I; not the Lord”—that is, by revelation.
Wesley. Some interpret that place, “This speak I now, by revelation from the Lord”—not the Lord in that text before instanced, when he gave answer concerning divorce. May it please your lordship, we believe that “cultus non institutus est indebitus.”
Bishop. It is false.
Wesley. The second commandment speaks the same: “Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image.”
Bishop. That is, forms of your own invention.