These landmarks also they have removed, in appointing, by an inviolable law, that very thing which the former punished with excommunication, and the latter gave a powerful reason for disapproving.

There was a father[31] who asserted the temerity of deciding on either side of an obscure subject, without clear and evident testimonies of Scripture.

This landmark they forgot when they made so many constitutions, canons, and judicial determinations, without any authority from the word of God.

There was a father[32] who upbraided Montanus with having, among other heresies, been the first imposer of laws for the observance of fasts.

They have gone far beyond this landmark also, in establishing fasts by the strictest laws.