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Does this say what Calvin says after a fashion?
Calvin (on Matthew 18:17): “Christ instituted no new thing, but follows the custom observed in the church of His own nation.”[1] Again, “he had respect unto the form of discipline received among the Jews, […] which was in the power of the elders, the representatives of the church.”[2] The same was the judgment of Beza, Junius, Whitaker, Cartwright, Brightman, Bucanus.
Objecting to Bellarmine, Whitaker says,
Non est tale aliquod discrimen. Nam et veterest quando congregabantur, tum vocabantur; et nos cum vocamur, in Ecclesiam congregamur. Eadem veteris novaeque; Ecclesiae substantia fuit.​
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My Latin is bad, but this is what I got from it:
Sed hoc magis argutum mihi videtur, quam solidum.
But this appears to me to be more eloquent than solid.
Non est tale aliquod discrimen.
No such distinction exists.
Nam & veteres quando congregabantur, tum vocabantur; et nos cum vocamur, in Ecclesiam congregamur.
For, the ancients, when they congregated, were called; and we, when we are called, congregate in the Church.
Eadem veteris novaeque; Ecclesiae substantia fuit.
The Old and the New in the same way; it was the substance of the Church.
 
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