in his
Liberty of Prophesying
Taylor turns this way into mere ridicule. I love thee, Jeremy! but an arrant theological barrister that thou wast, though thy only fees were thy desires of doing good in
questionibus singulis
.
Ib.
s. iii. p. 419.
Only, because we are sure there was some false dealing in this matter, and we know there might be much more than we have discovered, we have no reason to rely upon any tradition for any part of our faith, any more than we could do upon Scripture, if one book or chapter of it should be detected to be imposture.
What says Jeremy Taylor then to the story of the woman taken in adultery, (