We are bound to follow because we judge it true, not because the Church hath said it, and this is to judge of the Church by her Doctrine, not of the Doctrine by the Church. And indeed it is the best and only way.

— Jeremy Taylor Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)

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