-- 32. And if any one seek for divine authority in this matter, though what is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by apostolical authority, still

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Footnotes:

[1464] Romans 4:11, 3.

[1465] Genesis 17:9-14.

[1466] Exodus 4:24-26.

[1467] John 9:21.