THE
ORDER
Of
the
GOSPEL
,
In
some
more
main
parts
thereof
,
briefly
and
plainly
handled
,
(
as
such
a
Subject
will
permit
.
)
ACT
.
15.3
.
And
being
brought
on
their
way
by
the
Church
,
they
passed
thorow
Phenice
and
Samaria
,
declaring
the
conversion
of
the
Gentiles
:
and
they
caused
great
joy
unto
all
the
brethren
.
THE
Church
of
Antioch
had
great
stirs
in
it
,
by
men
of
unsound
mindes
,
who
therefore
desired
aid
from
the
Church
at
Jerusalem
:
What
persons
they
deputed
for
Messengers
,
you
may
see
in
the
verse
before
my
Text
,
to
wit
,
Paul
and
Barnabas
,
and
certain
others
,
&c.
v.
2.
The
Church
brought
these
their
Messengers
on
their
way
,
to
testifie
their
great
affection
and
thankfulnesse
,
for
so
brotherly
a
work
.
The
way
they
went
,
my
Text
tells
you
,
to
wit
,
thorow
Phenicia
and
Samaria
,
which
were
people
neer
of
lip
to
the
Jewes
,
and
among
which
,
many
were
turned
to
the
Faith
of
Christ
,
and
walking
together
in
the
Order
of
the
Gospel
,
as
was
signified
by
Christ
himself
,
Act.
1.8
.
and
is
mentioned
as
fulfilled
,
Act.
9.31
.
and
in
the
close
of
my
Text
;
who
joy
to
hear
like
things
among
the
Gentiles
.
The
principall
things
in
this
verse
are
these
,
viz.
a
Church
of
the
New
Testament
,
described
by
its
proper
matter
,
and
by
a
proper
effect
and
operation
which
this
hath
,
upon
such
who
are
indeed
turned
to
the
Lord
,
and
able
to
discern
spirituall
beauty
and
glory
,
it
causeth
great
joy
to
all
such
.
And
being
brought
on
by
the
Church
.
]
What
the
matter
or
this
Church
is
,
read
the
next
words
,
and
they
will
tell
you
:
—
they
declared
the
conversion
of
the
Gentiles
.
What
conversion
was
this
?
A
meer
outside
conversion
?
Surely
if
the
Brethren
had
apprehended
no
more
in
them
,
they
would
have
had
litle
matter
for
a
great
joy
:
but
of
this
more
will
be
said
by
and
by
.
Let
's
take
terms
as
they
lye
,
and
see
how
other
Scriptures
do
explain
them
,
and
make
Scripture
its
own
interpretation
,
which
will
be
most
safe
for
all
persons
to
go
by
.
The
complexion
of
a
visible
Church
under
the
Gospel
,
is
here
said
to
be
conversion
:
the
constituting
matter
,
converted
ones
.
What
these
converted
ones
were
,
according
to
what
Christian
can
discern
of
Christian
,
is
the
thing
to
be
enquired
into
.
Paul
&
Barnabas
,
who
were
Master-builders
,
and
surely
very
seeing
men
,
that
they
might
not
make
a
meer
report
,
took
of
these
converted
ones
with
them
—
were
brought
on
in
their
way
by
the
Church
.
We
t●ll
you
,
(
as
if
they
had
said
)
of
such
glad
tidings
touching
the
Gentiles
;
but
what
they
are
,
see
your selves
,
here
they
are
,
discourse
with
them
,
see
if
they
have
not
the
same
Soul-complexion
with
your selves
,
whether
they
have
not
received
the
same
Spirit
of
adoption
,
owning
and
experiencing
the
same
grace
of
God
which
you
do
.
That
there
was
an
effectuall
work
wrought
in
the
hearts
of
these
my
Text
speaks
of
,
I
judge
will
sufficiently
appear
,
by
comparing
with
my
Text
,
these
Scriptures
,
Act.
11.20
,
21.22
,
23.
—
which
when
they
were
come
to
Antioch
,
spake
unto
the
Grecians
,
preaching
the
Lord
Jesus
:
and
the
hand
of
the
Lord
was
with
them
,
and
a
great
number
of
them
believed
,
and
turned
to
the
Lord
.
The
tidings
of
these
things
came
to
the
ears
of
the
Church
which
was
at
Jerusalem
,
and
they
sent
forth
Barnabas
,
that
he
should
go
to
Antioch
,
who
when
he
came
,
and
had
seen
the
grace
of
God
,
was
glad
,
and
exhorted
them
all
,
that
with
purpose
of
heart
they
would
cleave
unto
the
Lord
.
For
he
was
a
good
man
,
and
full
of
the
holy
Ghost
.
The
next
verse
tells
us
,
that
he
found
out
Saul
,
and
brought
him
to
this
Church
of
Antioch
,
where
they
abode
a
whole
year
:
and
these
Converts
first
called
Christians
.
Barnabas
is
here
said
to
be
a
man
full
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
therefore
able
to
taste
his
Communion
,
what
divine
reciprocation
was
made
amongst
them
,
and
heart
answering
to
heart
;
and
he
and
Paul
together
in
a
whole
years
time
,
might
be
competently
able
to
give
a
judgment
what
they
found
amongst
these
first
Christians
;
and
I
think
't
is
very
dangerous
to
say
,
that
as
far
as
they
could
apprehend
,
these
first
Christians
had
not
both
name
and
thing
,
for
which
commended
,
and
in
which
by
these
worthies
joyed
in
:
In
particular
Churches
,
some
competent
judgement
may
be
made
of
every
particular
Member
,
by
able
men
,
in
a
long
tract
of
time
;
and
so
are
these
Worthies
elswhere
said
,
with
this
Church
,
to
have
had
intimate
Communion
,
Act.
14.27
,
28.
And
from
thence
sailed
to
Antioch
,
from
whence
they
had
been
recommended
to
the
grace
of
God
,
for
the
work
which
they
fulfilled
.
And
when
they
were
come
,
and
had
gathered
the
Church
together
,
they
rehearsed
all
that
God
had
done
with
them
,
and
how
he
had
opened
the
door
of
faith
to
the
Gentiles
.
And
there
they
[
abode
a
long
time
]
with
the
disciples
.
Add
to
this
Act.
15.
where
you
shall
see
further
,
what
is
solemnly
asserted
of
thess
Converts
in
several
verses
,
as
v.
8.
And
God
which
know●th
the
hearts
beareth
them
witne●
,
giving
them
the
Holy
Ghost
,
even
as
he
did
unto
us
,
and
put
no
diff●rence
between
us
and
them
,
purifying
their
h●arts
by
Faith
.
H●re
is
a
Text
to
some
purpose
,
God
which
knoweth
the
hearts
beareth
them
witnes
,
&c.
That
they
had
like
powerfull
,
spirituall
purifying
receptions
,
with
the
best
of
them
at
Jerusalem
:
and
indeed
I
think
it
dangerous
for
any
to
affirm
,
that
all
these
expressions
might
not
mean
effectuall
grace
,
or
else
be
spoken
of
some
onely
,
but
not
of
the
whole
.
Compare
with
this
,
v.
11.16
,
17
,
18
,
19.
what
he
concludes
,
Wherefore
my
sentence
is
,
that
we
trouble
not
them
which
from
among
the
Gentiles
,
are
turned
to
God
.
Having
thus
painfully
and
plainly
laid
the
foundation
by
the
Word
,
and
by
a
simple
and
sincere
judgement
thereupon
,
without
the
least
respect
to
any
party
,
or
self-interest
in
the
world
,
as
he
knowes
to
whom
in
this
as
in
all
my
wayes
,
I
desire
humbly
to
refer
my self
.
I
build
thereupon
this
doctrine
,
That
the
proper
and
allowed
matter
of
a
visible
Church
now
in
the
dayes
of
the
Gospel
,
is
persons
truly
converted
,
such
as
God
,
who
knoweth
the
hearts
of
all
men
,
can
bear
witnes
of
,
as
indeed
sealed
for
his
,
by
his
Holy
Spirit
.
I
say
,
this
is
the
matter
we
ought
now
to
take
,
to
raise
again
the
Tabernacle
of
David
,
and
none
other
,
not
one
other
,
no
not
in
a
whole
Church
,
so
far
as
men
truly
converted
,
and
very
spirituall
,
are
able
to
discern
and
judge
.
The
particular
Text
I
would
cite
for
the
further
confirmation
of
this
(
that
you
may
see
how
richly
the
Scripture
consents
to
this
)
are
these
,
Act.
9.
v.
26
,
And
when
Saul
was
come
to
Jerusalem
,
he
assayed
to
joyn
himself
to
the
Disciples
,
but
they
were
[
all
]
afraid
of
him
(
by
which
it
seems
,
they
were
a
homogeniall
body
,
under
the
same
light
and
conscience
,
and
tendernesse
in
this
matter
)
and
believed
not
that
he
was
a
Disciple
.
What
did
they
fear
?
That
he
did
not
make
profession
of
Christianity
?
Why
,
now
he
tend●red
himself
to
do
●t
,
why
should
they
have
denied
him
now
,
if
bare
prof●ssion
had
been
enough
?
But
it
is
evident
,
that
they
feared
that
he
did
but
meerly
professe
,
and
that
they
should
take
in
a
heterogeniall
piece
,
one
that
had
but
the
outside
of
that
qualification
which
this
new
building
should
have
;
and
therefore
Barnabas
took
him
,
and
brought
him
to
the
Apost●es
,
and
declared
to
them
how
he
had
seen
the
Lord
in
the
way
,
and
how
he
had
spoken
to
him
,
and
how
he
had
preached
boldly
at
Damascus
,
and
ventured
his
life
in
the
practice
of
his
Profession
,
used
all
means
to
satisfie
them
of
the
reality
of
Gods
work
upon
his
heart
,
and
upon
this
received
as
sit
matter
for
this
new
house
,
and
as
suitable
matter
to
that
which
was
already
in
the
building
.
Adde
to
this
Act.
2.47
.
the
Lord
added
to
the
Church
{αβγδ}
,
the
saved
,
eos
qui
salvi
fiebant
,
those
which
were
out
of
harms
way
,
as
we
say
,
in
a
safe
and
sure
state
&
so
are
no
persons
,
but
such
who
have
received
of
the
sure
mercies
of
David
:
a
sinner
is
not
safe
,
not
out
of
gun-shot
,
till
indeed
in
Chr●st
,
and
this
the
matt●r
●ccepted
and
taken
in
to
build
withall
,
and
none
else
,
so
far
as
they
could
make
judgement
between
things
that
differed
,
and
either
they
were
thus
strict
upon
their
own
will
,
and
s●
not
to
be
fo
l●wed
,
or
else
by
d●vine
and
infall●ble
warra●t
,
and
so
as
presidents
,
wh●ch
hath
the
force
of
a
precent
,
and
this
,
in
,
over
and
abov●
,
a
plain
demonstration
of
the
possibility
of
the
precept
to
be
obeyed
and
followed
,
which
take●
off
that
objection
;
'
twe●e
wel
S
r
,
if
't
were
so
;
but
how
can
●t
be
?
how
shal
we
do
it
?
why
't
ath
bin
done
,
the●efore
may
be
,
therefore
should
be
,
&
no
otherwise
.
To
this
adde
Heb
.
3.5
,
6.
And
Moses
verily
was
faithfull
in
all
his
hou●e
,
as
a
servant
,
for
a
testimony
of
tho●e
things
which
were
to
be
spoken
after
;
but
Christ
as
a
son
over
his
own
house
,
whose
house
are
we
,
if
we
hold
fast
the
confidence
and
the
rejoycing
of
hope
firm
to
the
end
.
To
a
Church
of
the
Jewes
is
this
spoken
,
who
did
apost●tize
much
,
and
fo●sook
their
Asse●blings
,
and
so
their
exhorting
one
another
,
with
all
those
means
of
grace
and
life
,
which
God
h●th
inst
tuted
in
his
new
house
,
and
so
indeed
grew
worse
and
worse
,
till
at
length
they
came
as
the
rest
of
the
J●wish
Churches
,
to
nothing
.
As
l●n●
,
s●ith
the
Apostle
,
as
you
hold
fast
the
practice
and
power
of
what
you
profess
,
so
long
you
are
a
Church
;
but
when
you
let
go
this
,
you
un-Church
your selves
,
and
should
be
pursued
upon
you
,
you
should
be
thrown
out
,
as
such
un-allowed
matter
;
but
●f
others
which
should
do
it
,
will
not
,
why
the
Master
himself
who
is
faithfull
in
all
his
house
,
h●
will
do
it
hims●lf
,
he
will
cast
such
a
Church
wholly
off
,
which
thus
suffer
his
institution
to
be
corrupted
,
&
so
indeed
did
he
write
Loami
upon
the
first
Churches
,
quickly
after
the
Apostles
time
,
for
this
thing
.
Hints
and
shadows
of
this
truth
,
take
in
these
Scriptures
Mat
.
16.17
,
18
,
19.
Blessed
art
thou
Simon
Barjona
,
for
flesh
and
bloud
hath
not
revealed
it
unto
thee
,
but
my
Father
which
is
in
Heaven
.
And
I
say
also
unto
thee
,
that
thou
art
Peter
,
and
upon
this
rock
I
will
build
my
Church
,
and
the
gates
of
hell
shall
not
prevail
against
it
,
and
I
will
give
unto
thee
the
Keyes
of
the
Kingdom
of
heaven
,
and
whatsoever
thou
shalt
binde
on
earth
,
shall
be
bound
in
heaven
,
whatsoever
thou
shalt
loose
on
earth
shall
be
loosed
in
heaven
.
Note
in
these
verses
,
these
things
,
First
,
that
CHRIST
doth
not
speak
heer
of
the
invisible
Church
,
for
he
speaks
of
the
power
of
the
Keyes
,
binding
and
loosing
on
earth
;
the
invisible
Church
is
the
greatest
part
in
heaven
,
and
they
which
are
in
earth
considered
as
one
with
them
,
as
one
intire
universal
body
,
whereof
CHRIST
is
the
Head
,
are
not
capable
of
visible
and
limited
Discipline
:
Therefore
I
judge
,
we
are
to
gather
from
CHRISTS
words
,
that
he
speaks
by
way
of
anticipation
,
of
that
visible
order
,
which
he
did
purpose
to
institute
after
his
departure
,
by
his
Appostles
,
whereof
Peter
was
one
.
And
then
secondly
observe
,
of
what
matter
he
saith
this
building
should
be
,
to
wit
,
of
such
as
have
a
Faith
,
which
flesh
and
bloud
cannot
reveal
,
and
to
a
body
thus
constituted
,
is
the
power
of
the
Keys
given
,
and
both
these
represented
and
personated
to
us
in
Peter
.
I
do
not
finde
the
Learned
and
Orthodox
of
latter
times
,
to
apply
this
place
to
the
invisible
Church
,
and
I
think
I
am
not
then
a
forcer
of
this
Scripture
,
in
the
sense
I
give
of
it
.
Another
shadow
or
hint
of
this
Truth
,
see
Revel
.
11.1
,
2.
And
there
was
given
me
a
Reed
like
unto
a
Rod
,
and
the
Angel
stood
,
saying
,
Rise
and
measure
the
Temple
of
GOD
,
and
the
Altar
and
them
that
worship
therein
,
but
the
Court
which
is
without
the
Temple
leave
out
,
or
cast
out
,
(
saith
the
Originall
)
for
it
is
given
unto
the
Gentiles
,
and
the
Holy
C●ty
shall
they
tread
under
foot
fourty
and
two
moneths
.
By
the
Temple
is
meant
the
visible
Ch●rch
,
the
state
and
welfare
of
which
,
though
most
infested
of
any
publick
condition
,
shall
not
be
left
and
ruined
,
but
be
carefully
looked
unto
&
raised
from
its
corruptions
,
intrusions
&
ruine●
made
by
unsound
men
.
Hunc
in
modum
jubet
ut
Ecclesiam
Johannis
metiatur
significans
eam
nusquam
relictum
i●i
,
Altaris
nomine
Christum
quidam
intelligunt
,
de
quo
Apost
.
Heb
.
13.10
sed
rectius
alii
cultum
div●num
intelligunt
,
quemadmodum
in
plerisq●e
Scripturae
locis
pro
toto
Dei
cultu
su●●itur
.
Marlorat
.
etiamsi
variis
modis
ab
hostibus
infestatur
Agust
.
Marloratus
.
By
Alta●
is
meant
per
synecdochē
,
the
whole
worship
of
God
,
as
the
same
author
hath
it
.
The
next
term
,
to
wit
,
worshippers
,
that
explains
it self
.
The
state
of
worship
,
and
wor●hippers
now
under
the
Gospel
is
to
be
measured
,
kept
regulated
to
an
exact
rule
.
What
is
that
?
why
the
word
of
God
.
Postquam
edoctus
est
Johannis
quanta
sit
verbi
Domini
virtus
,
munus
ei
injungitur
dispiciendi
,
judicandi
,
et
discernendi
Ecclesiam
,
quae
est
verum
Dei
Templum
juxta
doctrinam
Pauli
dicentis
,
Templum
Dei
sanctum
est
,
quod
estis
vos
.
1
Cor
.
3.17
.
Marlorat
.
What
then
is
meant
by
the
Court
which
is
without
the
Temple
;
men
which
have
onely
an
outside
Religion
,
and
an
outside
worship
and
devotion
,
but
destitute
of
the
power
of
Religion
.
What
is
meant
by
the
not
measuring
of
these
?
To
thi●
let
the
same
worthy
man
before
mentioned
make
answer
.
—
Ne
metiaris
illud
.
Hoc
●st
,
Ne
complectaris
eos
in
Spirituali
aedificio
Domini
.
Do
not
embrace
them
to
be
matter
in
this
Spirituall
House
,
they
are
without
,
and
let
them
be
cast
out
.
Et
atrium
quod
foris
est
Templum
,
ejice
foras
Why
must
not
such
be
received
into
the
Church
,
or
why
must
they
not
abide
in
the
Church
?
these
make
a
profession
?
Why
,
because
the
house
saith
he
is
Spirituall
,
Holy
,
they
are
not
congruous
matter
.
The
C●ty
of
God
is
a
Holy
City
,
a●
't
is
in
the
following
words
of
this
verse
called
,
—
Why
must
not
these
outer-Court
Christians
be
taken
in
,
?
Why
saith
John
,
these
are
given
to
the
Gentiles
:
Hoc
est
,
ipsi
facti
sunt
conformes
Gentibus
incredulis
,
imo
deteriores
sunt
illis
,
quantalibet
sanctitatis
specie
polleant
:
Nam
traditi
sunt
in
reprobum
sensum
,
alienati
a
cultu
Dei
,
&c.
Such
ki●de
of
Professors
,
and
outside
christians
,
w●ll
soon
●n
times
of
temptations
conform
themse●ves
to
the
worst
of
men
,
Heathens
,
Turks
,
yea
,
and
be
worse
then
they
,
and
will
strike
in
w●th
the
vilest
to
to
tread
down
the
Holy
City
,
that
is
the
true
worshippers
in
Gods
visible
Church
,
such
as
have
indeed
name
and
thing
,
Form
and
Power
of
godlinesse
:
I
cite
this
Author
,
not
that
I
finde
him
fully
of
my
judgement
in
the
matter
I
am
upon
,
but
to
see
how
he
and
other
good
men
of
the
reformed
Churches
,
speak
unawares
the
Thing
we
hold
,
and
cannot
indeed
tell
how
else
to
give
any
life
to
places
of
Scripture
,
which
they
undertake
to
expound
;
neither
indeed
can
a
man
tell
how
to
make
themselves
agree
with
themselves
in
their
Commentaris
,
without
taking
them
with
a
grain
of
Salt
in
this
manner
.
Upon
the
whole
,
this
I
collect
,
that
persons
meerly
professing
the
things
of
God
,
are
not
approved
and
allowed
matter
by
the
Lord
in
a
visible
Church
,
they
are
such
as
he
doth
not
measure
,
embrace
for
his
Building
,
they
are
such
as
are
fit
to
destroy
,
not
to
build
the
ho●y
City
,
and
these
Christ
not
allowing
of
them
,
nor
measuring
of
them
,
but
casting
them
by
,
and
will
do
if
we
do
not
;
how
then
we
can
,
but
at
our
perrill
,
both
in
order
to
God
,
and
in
order
to
such
men
,
embrace
them
,
I
know
not
.
Another
shadow
or
hint
of
this
truth
,
see
Rev.
4.
which
whole
Chapter
is
taken
up
to
shew
the
state
of
the
holy
City
forementioned
.
And
in
the
first
verse
,
observe
whether
John
is
taken
to
have
the
frame
of
this
new
building
given
to
him
.
After
this
I
looked
,
and
behold
a
door
was
opened
in
heaven
,
and
the
first
voice
which
I
heard
was
as
it
were
of
a
Trumpet
,
talking
with
me
,
which
said
,
Come
up
hither
and
I
will
shew
thee
things
which
must
be
hereafter
.
And
imm●diatly
I
was
in
the
spirit
,
and
behold
a
throne
was
set
in
heaven
,
&c.
Moses
had
his
Patern
upon
the
Mount
near
Heaven
,
not
in
Heaven
;
and
yet
some
very
learned
Men
think
,
that
even
that
was
teaching
what
that
people
should
be
which
walked
in
that
first
House
,
Persons
really
l●ving
very
near
Heaven
,
with
which
compare
Ezek
.
44.7
.
But
John
hath
his
Patern
given
him
in
Heaven
,
to
shadow
,
that
this
Temple
,
Altar
,
Worshippers
,
should
all
indeed
be
from
above
,
and
such
as
should
have
indeed
an
internall
consecration
,
and
the
Law
given
into
the
minde
,
as
the
Author
to
the
Heb
.
saith
,
and
made
Jews
inwardly
,
a
holy
Nation
,
according
to
inward
choise
and
call
,
and
so
a
Spirituall
Priesthood
,
&c.
But
this
is
not
the
way
which
I
most
minde
to
make
Probation
by
,
of
this
Point
.
I
would
prove
it
by
induction
.
The
Church
of
the
Romans
,
the
Church
of
the
Corinthians
,
the
Church
of
the
Galathians
,
the
Church
of
the
Ephesians
,
the
Church
of
the
Philippians
,
the
Church
of
the
Collossians
,
the
Church
of
the
Thessallonians
,
the
Church
of
the
Jews
which
are
mentioned
by
Peter
,
and
Iames
,
and
the
Author
to
the
Hebrew
,
and
in
the
Acts
,
were
all
thus
constituted
,
with
Persons
truly
Godly
,
so
far
as
a
godly
man
can
make
judgement
of
one
like
himself
,
Ergo
.
If
these
be
denyed
,
as
Presidents
,
then
I
would
ask
our
Brethren
of
the
Presbytery
,
according
to
what
rule
they
walk
?
But
if
these
be
confessed
as
Presidents
,
then
I
have
onely
to
shew
unto
you
,
that
these
Churches
did
all
thus
constitute
,
though
I
think
,
did
not
long
carefully
keep
and
maintain
this
pure
constitution
,
for
which
bore
their
judgment
,
and
yet
do
.
What
the
Church
of
the
Romans
was
,
read
Paul
,
who
surely
was
able
to
discern
in
Spirituall
matters
,
and
who
surely
durst
not
complement
with
Persons
in
things
of
Eternall
concernment
.
Among
whom
ye
are
the
called
of
Iesus
Christ
,
to
all
that
be
in
Rome
,
beloved
of
God
,
called
to
be
Saints
,
grace
be
to
you
,
and
peace
from
God
our
Father
,
and
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
I
thank
God
for
you
,
[
All
]
that
your
Faith
is
spoken
of
throughout
the
whole
world
,
for
God
is
my
witnesse
,
that
I
make
mention
of
you
alwayes
in
my
Prayers
,
&c.
I
cannot
think
that
a
Faith
of
so
high
esteem
with
Paul
,
and
of
such
renown
through
the
Christian
world
,
and
the
matter
of
such
fervent
Prayer
,
should
mean
onely
a
temporary
faith
:
Some
of
these
were
such
as
laid
down
their
necks
for
Paul
,
Rom.
16.4
.
The
rest
surely
endangered
their
own
necks
,
every
day
by
their
Profession
,
living
in
the
mouth
of
that
Tyrant
Nero
as
Paul
cals
him
,
or
Dragons
,
as
John
calls
all
the
Heathen
Emperours
of
that
place
.
If
this
be
accompted
but
litle
,
yet
many
litles
put
together
,
amount
to
much
.
Adde
therefore
to
this
,
the
Church
of
the
Corinthians
,
1.
Epist
Corinth
1.2
To
the
Church
of
God
which
is
at
Corinth
,
to
them
which
are
sanctified
in
Christ
Jesus
,
called
to
be
Saints
,
with
all
that
in
every
place
call
upon
the
name
of
Jesus
Christ
our
Lord
,
both
theirs
and
ours
.
I
thank
God
in
your
behalf
,
that
in
every
thing
ye
are
enriched
by
him
in
all
utterance
,
and
in
all
knowledge
,
even
as
the
testimony
of
Christ
was
confirmed
in
you
,
so
that
ye
come
behinde
in
no
gift
,
waiting
for
the
revelation
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
who
also
shall
confirm
you
unto
the
end
,
that
ye
may
be
blameless
in
the
day
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
1.
Cor
.
4.15
.
For
though
you
have
ten
thousand
instructers
in
Christ
,
yet
have
ye
not
many
fathers
,
for
in
Christ
Jesus
I
have
begotten
you
all
.
Persons
having
such
grace
in
them
,
as
shall
be
confirmed
to
the
end
,
as
keeps
them
waiting
for
the
coming
of
Christ●
,
as
are
the
comfortable
seals
of
a
faithfull
Minister
;
that
all
this
should
signifie
but
outward
profession
,
or
that
these
expressions
should
any
way
advantage
any
,
to
say
,
that
this
Church
did
constitute
and
congregate
together
,
upon
any
other
accompt
,
but
as
there
was
the
true
grace
of
God
evident
,
as
far
as
man
could
judge
,
I
cannot
indeed
see
.
Fo●
the
rest
of
the
Gentile
Churches
(
that
I
may
not
be
too
large
)
read
your selves
these
Scriptures
,
Gal.
4.9
.
Gal.
6.1
.
Ephes
.
1.1
.
and
13.
Act.
20.28.32
.
Phil
.
1.1
,
6.
Phil
.
4.15
,
16.
1.
Thess.
5
,
6
,
7.
&c.
For
the
Churches
of
the
Jewes
,
you
have
in
part
heard
already
,
how
the
first
Church
,
to
wit
,
at
Jerusalem
constituted
,
and
upon
what
terms
they
stood
with
Paul
:
which
first
Church
gave
the
first
Copy
to
all
the
Christian
World
,
what
to
do
,
and
(
I
think
)
held
their
own
best
,
till
their
scattering
by
persecution
,
which
God
ordered
to
the
encreasing
of
the
Churches
of
Christ
,
both
amongst
Jewes
and
Gentiles
.
But
what
all
the
Jewish
Churches
were
in
this
thing
for
their
Members
,
and
how
they
did
build
their
houses
to
God
,
see
1.
Pet
.
1.2
,
3.
1.
Pet
.
5.13
.
with
which
compare
Gal.
1.22
.
—
and
was
unknown
by
face
to
the
Churches
of
Judea
which
were
in
Christ
.
And
whether
this
was
onely
in
profession
?
see
,
1.
Thess.
2.13
,
14.
For
this
cause
thank
we
God
without
ceasing
,
because
when
ye
received
the
Word
of
God
,
which
ye
heard
of
us
,
ye
received
not
as
the
word
of
men
,
but
as
it
is
indeed
the
word
of
God
,
which
effectually
also
worketh
in
you
which
believe
.
For
the
brethren
became
followers
of
the
Church
of
God
,
which
in
Judea
are
in
Christ
Jesus
,
for
ye
have
also
suffered
like
things
of
your
Countrey-men
,
even
as
they
have
of
the
Jewes
,
who
both
killed
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
their
own
Prophets
,
and
have
persecuted
us
,
&c.
The
Church
of
the
Jewes
were
such
Professors
of
Christ
,
as
endured
persecution
,
sharp
trials
for
the
truth
,
and
were
eminently
exemplary
to
the
Christian
World
this
way
,
as
indeed
Profession
then
did
generally
expose
unto
,
though
now
not
,
and
so
voluntary
Profession
then
,
signified
a
great
deal
more
,
then
that
forced
Profession
of
the
Gospell
,
which
now
we
make
,
under
such
powers
as
call
for
,
and
countenance
these
things
,
doth
;
which
should
be
observed
and
allowed
by
them
,
which
compare
profession
then
with
profession
now
,
if
they
dealt
equally
in
this
controversie
.
If
it
be
objected
,
that
there
were
wicked
persons
in
these
Churches
which
you
have
mentioned
,
therefore
we
may
constitute
visible
Churches
now
in
the
dayes
of
the
Gospel
,
with
good
and
bad
,
with
truly
good
and
seemingly
good
,
such
as
make
only
a
profession
,
though
we
cannot
discern
the
power
of
Religion
in
them
.
Sol
.
To
this
I
answer
,
à
facto
ad
jus
non
valet
argumentum
,
because
such
things
are
,
therefore
they
ought
to
be
,
will
not
hold
.
Because
bad
men
were
in
the
Churches
,
the
generall
State
of
which
in
such
a
time
of
the
World
John
speaks
,
Rev.
11.1.2
.
therefore
they
should
be
there
,
will
not
follow
,
for
then
why
is
John
bid
to
cast
out
that
which
is
without
,
and
not
measure
it
,
not
embrace
it
:
What
is
allowed
to
abide
,
is
rather
the
Index
,
shewing
what
is
the
proper
and
allowed
matter
,
the
true
constitution
and
complexion
of
Church
State
,
now
in
the
dayes
of
the
Gospel
.
Churches
may
be
negligent
,
and
not
so
strict
to
their
rule
,
to
examine
and
prove
the
grace
of
God
in
such
as
offer
to
joyn
themselves
unto
them
,
as
the
Church
of
Jerusalem
did
:
If
Churches
do
not
minde
diligently
their
rule
,
to
look
well
who
they
adde
to
them
,
and
how
congruous
in
weight
to
the
ballance
of
the
Sanctuary
,
they
may
have
evill
persons
amongst
them
enough
,
and
yet
not
be
able
to
maintain
that
it
should
be
so
.
T'
is
like
that
the
Asian
Churches
,
and
most
of
the
first
Churches
,
quickly
after
the
Apostles
time
,
grew
faulty
in
this
kinde
,
opened
the
door
wider
then
they
had
warrant
for
,
by
which
corrupted
themselves
,
and
for
which
God
turned
them
all
out
of
his
house
,
as
defiling
of
it
.
Or
Churches
,
though
very
diligent
and
duly
strict
in
this
matter
,
yet
are
not
infallible
,
and
therefore
hypocrites
may
deceive
a
Church
for
a
time
,
and
so
get
in
where
they
have
no
right
to
be
;
The
Apostle
Jude
doth
confess
so
much
,
verse
4.
of
his
Epistle
:
For
there
are
certain
men
crept
in
unawares
,
who
were
before
of
old
ordained
to
this
condemnation
,
&c.
Not
only
persons
may
thus
creep
into
the
Church
,
but
also
creep
into
office
,
and
still
escape
the
first
judgement
upon
them
,
made
by
the
Churches
,
of
which
they
are
.
The
Apostle
doth
intimate
this
to
Tim
.
Lay
hands
suddenly
on
no
man
,
and
observe
his
charge
,
which
may
make
a
man
tremble
to
read
.
I
charge
thee
before
God
,
and
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
and
the
elect
Angels
,
that
thou
observe
these
things
,
without
prefering
one
before
another
,
be
not
partaker
of
other
mens
sins
,
keep
thy
self
pure
;
for
some
mens
sins
are
open
before
hand
,
going
before
to
judgement
,
and
some
they
follow
after
.
1.
Tim
.
5.21
,
22.
We
are
as
appears
by
this
,
compared
with
other
Scriptures
,
to
use
all
care
,
as
much
as
in
us
lies
,
to
prevent
by
the
first
judgement
of
the
Church
,
all
that
are
not
godly
,
from
coming
into
a
State
,
to
which
they
are
not
approved
by
God
,
but
if
men
by
their
subtilty
creep
in
,
as
the
serpent
into
the
garden
,
where
they
should
not
be
:
we
are
to
cast
that
out
which
is
without
,
whilest
within
by
the
after
judgement
of
the
Church
,
which
is
excommunication
,
when
it
doth
evidently
appear
that
men
are
hypocrites
,
though
not
drunkards
,
and
such
kind
of
bodily
sinners
,
as
I
may
say
,
which
is
far
less
,
simply
considered
,
then
hypocrisie
;
which
after
judgement
,
is
an
ordinance
to
cleanse
the
house
of
God
and
keep
it
pure
,
and
according
to
what
it
ought
to
be
,
and
doth
strongly
confirm
the
point
that
I
am
upon
,
that
the
matter
of
a
visible
Church
,
now
in
the
dayes
of
the
Gospel
,
should
be
reall
Saints
,
the
proper
and
approved
complexion
of
a
visible
Church
is
sanctity
,
saving
grace
,
and
not
one
known
to
be
otherwise
,
can
justifiably
enter
or
abide
within
Gods
Holy
hill
.
This
truth
I
humbly
conceive
,
hath
strong
appearance
of
reason
in
it
,
that
the
matter
of
a
Church
,
should
be
men
truly
turned
to
God
:
for
,
how
otherwise
can
there
be
uniformity
in
the
Church
,
the
thing
so
much
desired
and
admired
?
Christ
is
the
Rock
and
Foundation
Stone
of
the
Building
,
this
confessed
of
all
sides
;
the
rest
of
the
Building
then
must
be
&
bear
upon
him
,
as
a
superstruction
,
{αβγδ}
,
as
superstructed
,
as
the
Apostle
useth
the
word
,
Ephes
.
2.20
.
And
how
they
can
hold
and
bear
upon
him
,
who
have
not
the
faith
of
him
,
that
faith
which
flesh
and
bloud
cannot
reveal
,
as
is
spoken
of
Peter
?
I
know
not
.
And
then
how
can
that
house
stand
which
hath
such
materials
?
which
do
not
make
{αβγδ}
,
coagmentatio
congrua
,
a
fit
and
congruous
encrease
and
building
,
as
the
same
Apostle
speaks
:
How
can
that
building
stand
,
whose
materials
have
not
a
symmetry
,
but
antilogie
and
antistasie
,
not
an
agreement
,
but
a
fighting
with
the
foundation
,
and
one
another
?
Christ
doth
argue
from
this
medium
,
that
suitable
to
the
foundation
should
be
the
building
;
or
otherwise
,
such
incongruous
superstructions
will
be
fired
,
and
they
which
make
them
.
—
As
a
wise
builder
(
saith
he
)
I
have
laid
the
foundation
,
and
another
builds
thereon
:
but
let
every
man
take
heed
how
he
buildeth
thereupon
.
For
other
foundation
can
no
man
lay
,
then
that
is
laid
,
which
is
Jesus
Christ
.
Now
if
any
man
build
upon
this
foundation
,
gold
,
silver
,
precious
stones
,
wood
,
hay
,
stubble
:
every
mans
work
shall
be
made
manifest
,
for
the
day
shall
declare
it
,
because
it
shall
be
revealed
by
fire
,
&c.
In
which
words
,
the
Apostle
argues
as
I
do
,
that
if
Christ
be
laid
as
the
Foundation
stone
in
a
building
,
't
is
good
for
men
to
take
heed
,
that
they
make
congruous
superstructions
,
lest
all
the
building
fall
about
their
ears
:
And
see
how
he
applyes
this
,
v.
16.17
.
Know
ye
not
that
ye
are
the
temple
of
God
,
and
that
the
spirit
of
God
dwelleth
in
you
.
If
any
man
defile
the
temple
of
God
,
him
shal
God
destroy
,
for
the
temple
of
God
is
holy
,
which
temple
ye
are
.
Incongruous
superstructions
,
if
it
be
in
point
of
doctrine
,
it
makes
incongruous
matter
,
it
defiles
the
temple
of
God
,
destroyes
the
temple
of
God
,
saith
the
margent
,
citing
the
originall
,
and
such
will
God
destroy
.
For
the
temple
of
God
(
saith
he
)
is
holy
,
which
temple
ye
are
,
(
i
.
)
such
are
the
temple
of
God
which
are
holy
,
which
have
the
Spirit
of
God
dwelling
in
their
hearts
,
and
none
else
.
According
to
this
medium
is
Christ
called
the
Head
,
and
the
Church
the
body
,
which
means
homogenialnesse
;
otherwise
,
how
can
there
be
mutuall
derivation
from
one
to
another
,
and
groweth
unto
a
holy
temple
in
the
Lord
,
as
the
Apostle
addes
,
Ephes
.
2.22
.
2.
The
matter
of
a
visible
Church
should
be
reall
Saints
,
how
else
should
it
be
the
Church
of
the
living
God
,
the
pillar
and
stay
of
truth
,
according
to
that
of
the
Apostle
to
Tim
.
1.
Tim
.
3.15
.
—
Church
of
the
living
God
(
i
.
)
such
as
in
which
God
lives
,
and
such
as
will
bear
up
truth
to
all
the
world
,
as
a
pillar
bears
out
any
thing
hung
upon
it
,
to
all
lookers
on
.
Alas
!
Christians
,
which
are
only
so
outwardly
,
God
doth
not
live
in
these
,
neither
can
,
nor
will
these
be
any
stay
to
truth
,
and
the
things
of
God
in
the
world
,
who
have
already
denied
and
destroyed
the
power
of
these
in
their
own
hearts
.
Will
he
hold
out
truth
firmly
and
faithfully
to
the
world
,
in
the
midst
of
all
tryals
,
which
daily
denies
it
in
his
own
heart
?
This
expression
,
living
God
,
is
opened
,
2.
Cor
.
6.16
.
For
ye
are
the
temple
of
the
living
God
,
as
God
hath
said
,
I
will
dwell
in
them
,
and
walk
in
them
,
and
I
will
be
their
God
,
and
they
shall
be
my
people
:
Wherefore
come
out
from
among
them
,
and
be
ye
separate
,
and
touch
not
the
unclean
thing
,
and
I
wil
receive
you
,
&c.
Church
of
the
living
God
,
and
temple
of
the
living
God
,
are
one
,
and
the
interpretation
is
one
,
and
here
given
,
ye
are
the
temple
of
the
living
God
,
as
God
hath
said
,
I
will
dwell
in
them
,
and
walk
in
them
.
So
that
the
Church
of
the
living
God
,
is
such
as
in
whom
God
lives
,
dwells
,
walks
.
Doth
God
live
and
dwell
in
dead
persons
,
in
such
who
onely
make
a
profession
of
Religion
?
Will
such
persons
be
to
truth
{αβγδ}
,
firmamentum
,
as
the
Apostle
before
speaks
,
as
the
firmament
is
to
the
stars
,
who
fall
from
Heaven
themselves
?
and
so
,
how
can
God
have
glory
in
the
Church
throughout
all
ages
,
Eph.
1.21
.
3.
The
matter
of
a
visible
Church
should
be
persons
truly
Godly
,
how
else
can
there
be
offered
up
in
Gods
House
now
,
a
pure
offering
?
For
unto
the
impure
and
unbelieving
,
all
is
so
,
and
then
how
can
the
Churches
of
the
Gentiles
fulfill
that
Prophesie
,
Mal
.
1.11
.
For
from
the
rising
of
the
Sun
,
unto
the
going
down
of
the
same
,
my
Name
shall
be
great
among
the
Gentiles
,
and
in
every
place
incense
shall
be
offered
unto
my
Name
,
and
a
pure
offering
,
for
my
Name
shall
be
great
among
the
Gentiles
,
saith
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
—
incense
and
a
pure
offering
in
every
place
,
&c.
Why
,
every
mans
offering
is
as
he
is
,
let
his
offering
be
what
it
will
.
Let
a
man
make
up
his
offring
of
never
so
much
worth
and
cost
,
yet
still
t
is
in
the
accompt
of
God
as
the
man
is
:
If
the
man
be
impure
,
so
is
his
offering
.
With
this
compare
1.
Pet
.
2.5
.
Ye
also
as
lively
stones
,
are
built
up
a
spirituall
house
,
an
holy
Priesthood
,
to
offer
up
spirituall
sacrifice
,
acceptable
to
God
by
Jesus
Christ
.
Wherefore
it
is
contained
in
the
Scriptures
,
that
I
lay
a
suitable
foundation
to
such
a
superstruction
,
meaning
Christ
.
The
stones
must
be
living
,
to
make
a
spirituall
house
,
how
else
can
the
society
be
a
holy
Priesthood
,
to
offer
up
spirituall
sacrifice
,
holy
and
acceptable
to
God
by
Jesus
Christ
.
This
place
doth
confirm
,
that
the
foundation
and
superstruction
is
one
,
and
that
the
Offering
and
the
Offerer
are
one
.
To
make
the
Offering
spirituall
,
holy
,
acceptable
to
God
,
the
person
that
doth
offer
must
be
thus
.
Now
we
know
persons
which
only
profess
Religion
,
these
are
dead
stones
,
nothing
of
spirituality
in
them
,
but
meer
formality
,
and
so
hypocriticall
,
and
so
amongst
the
number
of
them
which
are
most
abominable
.
The
matter
of
a
visible
Church
should
be
such
as
are
truly
godly
,
how
else
shall
the
Jews
be
provoked
,
and
this
particular
house
be
swallowed
up
in
that
generall
,
and
be
made
a
Pillar
in
that
to
go
no
more
out
.
Its
said
,
that
God
will
provoke
his
Ancient
People
by
us
Gentiles
:
and
how
will
God
provoke
them
?
By
the
glory
and
Purity
of
his
Worship
,
and
Worshippers
.
See
for
this
,
Isa
.
66.18
,
19
,
20
,
21
,
22.
In
the
foregoing
verses
,
the
Prophet
tels
us
of
sore
bloudshed
:
and
this
to
cast
out
filth
and
rubbish
out
of
the
Christian
World
.
The
Lord
will
come
with
fire
,
and
with
his
Chariots
like
a
whirle-wind
,
to
render
his
anger
with
fury
,
and
his
rebukes
with
flames
of
fire
,
for
by
fire
and
by
his
sword
shall
the
Lord
plead
with
all
flesh
,
and
the
slain
of
the
Lord
shall
be
many
,
they
which
sanctifie
themselves
,
and
purify
themselves
in
the
gardens
,
behinde
one
tree
in
the
midst
,
eating
swines
flesh
,
and
the
abomination
,
and
the
mouse
shall
be
consumed
together
,
saith
the
Lord
:
For
I
know
their
works
and
their
thoughts
:
After
this
rubbish
is
removed
what
then
?
why
,
It
shal
come
that
I
will
gather
all
Nations
and
tongues
,
and
they
shall
come
and
see
my
glory
,
and
I
will
set
a
signe
among
them
;
(
i
.
)
make
protection
for
these
:
and
what
then
?
I
will
send
those
which
shall
thus
be
defended
,
and
escape
,
unto
the
Nations
,
where
the
Iews
are
scattered
,
to
Tarshish
,
P
ul
,
and
Lud
,
to
Tubal
,
Javan
,
which
have
not
heard
of
my
fame
,
neither
have
seen
my
glory
,
and
they
shall
declare
my
glory
among
the
Gentiles
;
and
these
refined
Gentiles
thus
scattered
up
and
down
declaring
Gods
glory
,
shall
they
onely
gain
by
this
glory
the
Gentile
World
,
where
they
come
?
No
:
They
shall
also
bring
all
your
Brethren
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
for
an
offering
to
the
Lord
,
out
of
all
Nations
,
upon
Horses
and
in
Chariots
,
&c.
Whither
shall
they
bring
them
?
Why
to
my
holy
mountain
of
Jerusalem
,
saith
the
Lord
.
For
as
the
New
Heavens
,
and
the
New
Earth
,
which
I
shall
make
shall
remain
before
me
;
By
which
observe
,
that
this
New
Heaven
of
the
Gospel
Churches
is
to
remain
,
to
be
pure
and
to
remain
,
as
pure
things
last
.
And
observe
further
,
so
shall
the
Jews
which
these
pure
Heavens
shall
provoke
,
—
So
shal
your
seed
,
and
your
name
remain
:
And
both
joyned
together
into
one
pure
Church
:
For
that
read
verse
23.
And
it
shall
come
to
passe
,
that
from
one
new
Moon
to
another
,
and
from
one
Sabbath
to
another
,
shall
all
flesh
come
to
worship
before
me
,
saith
the
Lord
,
and
they
shall
go
forth
and
look
upon
the
carcases
of
the
men
that
have
transgressed
against
me
,
for
their
worme
shall
not
die
,
neither
shal
their
fire
be
quenched
,
and
they
shall
be
an
abhorring
to
all
flesh
:
Which
last
words
,
ah
let
men
read
,
and
with
much
dread
lay
to
heart
,
which
make
light
of
these
things
we
are
upon
:
Mens
Carcases
will
fall
as
formerly
Israels
did
,
for
their
froward
walking
,
and
the
pure
Church
and
people
of
God
shall
go
forth
and
look
upon
these
corrupted
,
and
rotten
Carcases
,
and
give
the
Lord
the
glory
of
his
Justice
.
Impurity
of
Worship
,
and
Worshippers
,
provokes
God
,
not
the
Jews
:
T
is
that
which
stumbles
them
at
this
day
,
as
I
have
heard
from
some
of
their
own
.
God
will
hold
up
an
exact
glory
to
them
,
therefore
is
he
exactly
punishing
the
Christian
world
,
to
cast
out
every
thing
that
offends
:
We
have
our
private
quarrels
in
our
expeditions
into
Nations
;
T
is
because
they
will
not
let
us
alone
,
saith
one
Nation
to
another
,
and
the
like
;
but
God
hath
under
all
this
,
a
design
and
quarrell
by
himself
,
which
we
are
few
of
us
aware
of
,
and
that
is
by
the
Sword
,
to
cast
out
that
which
is
without
,
to
throw
filthy
things
to
their
place
,
that
he
may
have
a
pure
people
,
an
an
exact
glory
to
provoke
his
ancient
People
,
which
when
brought
in
,
such
Churches
as
are
thus
pure
,
such
New
Heavens
shall
be
joyned
to
this
new
Heaven
,
and
remain
with
this
,
as
a
Pillar
in
this
great
House
,
to
go
no
more
out
,
as
is
said
of
Philadelphia
that
pure
Church
;
other
Churches
shall
be
destroyed
by
the
hour
of
temptation
,
which
there
is
spoken
of
.
Because
thou
hast
kept
the
word
of
my
patience
,
I
will
also
keep
thee
from
the
hour
of
temptation
which
shall
come
upon
all
the
world
,
to
try
them
which
dwel
upon
the
earth
:
Behold
I
come
suddenly
,
Rev.
3.10
.
Now
when
this
hour
of
temptation
shall
be
,
see
Dan
.
12.1
.
to
wit
,
immediatly
preceding
the
call
of
the
Jews
.
And
at
that
time
shal
Michael
stand
up
,
the
great
Prince
which
standeth
for
the
children
of
thy
people
,
and
there
shal
be
a
time
of
trouble
,
such
as
never
was
since
there
was
a
Nation
,
even
to
that
same
time
,
[
and
at
that
time
]
thy
people
shal
be
delivered
,
every
one
that
shal
be
found
written
in
the
Book
.
And
at
that
time
shal
be
the
the
deliverance
,
&c.
By
which
words
it
doth
plainly
appear
,
that
this
hour
of
temptation
will
be
immediatly
before
the
calling
of
the
Jews
,
in
which
will
be
cut
off
all
but
the
Philadelphian
Church
,
(
i
.
)
Typically
,
all
but
those
who
are
pure
,
and
so
instrumentall
to
provoke
and
bring
in
that
beloved
People
.
Now
we
know
that
the
Jewish
Church
when
they
shall
come
in
again
,
when
New
Jerusalem
shall
come
down
out
of
Heaven
,
they
shall
be
all
holy
,
every
gate
,
and
not
onely
the
gates
,
but
the
streets
of
Pearl
,
and
pure
Gold
,
and
hence
the
measuring
Reed
said
to
be
pure
Gold
.
For
the
fearfull
,
and
the
unbelieving
,
and
the
abominable
,
and
murtherers
,
and
all
lyars
,
all
that
say
they
are
Jews
and
are
not
,
all
shall
be
kept
out
of
this
house
;
Now
as
this
house
then
shall
be
,
so
shall
they
be
of
the
Gentiles
,
which
shall
be
joyned
in
with
them
,
this
is
evident
by
Isa
.
11.6.7
.
The
Wolfe
shal
dwel
with
the
Lamb
,
the
Leopard
and
the
Kid
,
the
Lion
and
the
Calfe
,
all
Jews
and
Gentiles
,
that
shall
be
formed
into
this
House
,
shall
be
all
one
;
and
the
Lord
shal
be
King
over
all
the
Earth
:
in
that
day
shal
there
be
one
Lord
,
and
his
Name
one
,
one
people
,
one
faith
,
one
love
,
one
conversation
,
all
in
heaven
:
This
Church
wil
not
be
a
specled
bird
as
they
were
for
which
cast
off
;
No
,
although
we
Gentiles
then
joyned
to
them
;
consequently
,
the
allowed
matter
of
a
visible
Church
,
now
in
the
dayes
of
the
Gospel
,
is
Persons
truly
holy
.
Use
.
Take
heed
then
of
setting
against
a
Church
of
such
a
complexion
,
and
constitution
.
Wilt
thou
oppose
a
thing
,
because
it
is
as
it
ought
to
be
,
this
is
a
meer
spirit
of
contradiction
,
which
borders
upon
malice
and
blasphemy
.
The
Learned
Jewes
seeing
a
great
aptnesse
in
many
of
their
country
men
,
to
receive
the
Doctrine
of
Christ
,
and
the
Apostles
,
and
they
not
able
to
disprove
the
things
which
were
taught
,
yet
would
contradict
,
being
filled
with
envy
,
Act.
13.44
.
A
spirit
of
pure
contradiction
(
I
fear
)
now
haunts
many
men
,
and
not
a
Spirit
of
Superior
light
,
and
this
temper
shews
men
to
be
poison'd
with
Sauls
spirit
,
and
levend
with
envy
and
malice
,
and
out
of
the
heat
of
this
strange
fire
,
do
little
else
but
blaspheme
the
Tabernacle
of
God
,
and
those
which
dwell
in
Heaven
,
which
is
no
other
but
a
spirit
of
Antichrist
,
where
ever
it
is
,
as
you
may
see
Rev.
13.6
.
Hear
what
the
Spirit
of
God
speaks
to
this
generation
,
Beware
lest
that
come
upon
you
which
is
spoken
in
the
Prophets
,
Be●…
old
ye
despisers
,
wonder
and
perish
,
〈…〉
will
work
a
work
in
your
dayes
,
●…
hich
ye
will
in
no
wise
beleeve
,
though
it
should
be
declared
unto
you
,
Act.
13
,
41.
If
ye
cannot
wonder
and
believe
the
things
which
God
saith
and
doth
,
you
will
wonder
and
perish
:
if
the
Words
and
works
of
God
brought
to
your
door
,
can
produce
no
other
fruit
amongst
you
but
desp●sing
,
you
shall
wonder
and
perish
;
the
stoutest
of
you
all
shall
do
it
.
Compare
with
this
,
Ezra
6.12
.
And
the
God
which
caused
his
Name
to
dwell
there
,
destroy
all
Kings
and
people
that
shall
put
to
their
hand
to
alter
,
and
to
destroy
this
House
of
God
which
is
at
Jeruasalem
;
I
Darius
have
made
a
decree
,
let
it
be
done
with
speed
.
If
we
conceive
of
Darius
as
a
Heathen
,
(
which
I
can
hardly
do
,
weighing
circumstances
in
severall
Scriptures
spoken
of
him
)
then
I
may
say
to
the
Heathen
,
to
all
men
destitute
of
God
,
that
one
of
your
own
curseth
you
with
a
grievous
curse
;
yea
,
even
the
greatest
amongst
you
,
and
the
least
,
Kings
and
People
.
If
the
Spirit
of
God
come
upon
one
of
your
own
,
and
make
him
curse
you
,
and
prophesie
evill
and
ruine
unto
you
,
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
,
which
say
,
come
,
let
s
take
the
Houses
of
God
in
possession
,
let
s
alter
and
destroy
Gods
worship
,
people
,
and
the
like
,
will
ye
not
believe
?
That
God
will
do
this
,
to
wit
,
destroy
Kings
as
well
as
People
,
the
greatest
as
well
as
the
least
,
which
oppose
and
destroy
his
House
and
spirituall
Temple
and
People
,
which
now
he
hath
:
See
further
,
Rev.
19.11
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
15.
And
I
saw
heaven
opened
,
and
behold
a
white
horse
,
and
he
that
sate
upon
him
was
called
faithfull
and
true
,
and
in
righteousnesse
he
doth
judge
and
make
war
.
His
eyes
were
as
a
flame
of
fire
,
and
on
his
head
were
many
crowns
,
and
he
had
a
name
written
which
no
man
knew
,
but
he
himself
.
And
he
was
cloathed
with
●
vesture
dipt
in
blood
,
and
his
name
is
called
the
word
of
God
.
And
the
Armies
which
were
in
Heaven
followed
him
upon
white
horses
,
cloathed
in
fine
linnen
,
white
and
clean
:
And
out
of
his
mouth
goeth
a
sharp
sword
,
that
with
it
he
should
smite
the
nations
,
and
he
shall
rule
them
with
a
rod
of
iron
:
and
he
treadeth
the
winepresse
of
the
fiercenes
and
wrath
of
Almighty
God
,
and
he
hath
on
his
vesture
,
and
on
his
thigh
a
name
written
,
King
of
kings
,
and
Lord
of
lords
.
And
I
saw
an
angel
standing
in
the
sun
,
and
he
cryed
with
a
loud
voice
,
saying
to
all
the
fowls
that
fly
in
the
midst
of
Heaven
,
Come
and
gather
your selves
together
unto
the
supper
of
the
great
God
,
that
ye
may
eat
the
flesh
of
kings
,
and
the
flesh
of
captains
,
and
the
flesh
of
mighty
men
,
and
the
flesh
of
horses
,
and
of
them
that
sit
on
them
,
and
the
flesh
of
all
men
,
both
free
and
bond
,
both
small
and
great
.
With
which
compare
Psal
.
149.8
.
Ob.
Why
?
but
they
gather
Churches
out
of
Churches
,
whom
you
plead
for
.
Sol
.
Nay
;
t
is
but
Churches
out
of
a
Church
:
Gospell
Churches
out
●…
f
a
Legall
Nationall
Church
;
and
the
●…
ne
being
abolished
,
there
may
be
,
yea
,
●…
here
ought
to
be
a
departing
from
it
,
●…
nd
a
gathering
out
of
it
,
into
that
order
which
God
hath
instituted
.
So
we
●…
ind
Churches
gathered
out
of
that
one
Church
of
the
Jewes
,
Gal.
1.22
.
And
was
unknown
by
face
unto
the
[
Churches
]
of
Judea
which
were
in
Christ
.
And
whether
he
means
by
being
in
Christ
,
meerly
according
to
profession
,
see
1.
Thess.
2.14
.
For
ye
became
followers
of
the
[
Churches
]
which
in
Judea
are
in
Christ
,
for
ye
have
suffered
like
things
of
your
countrey
men
,
even
as
they
have
of
the
Jewes
,
who
both
killed
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
their
own
prophets
,
and
have
persecuted
us
,
&c.
Ob.
Those
men
are
full
of
heresies
and
dangerous
opinions
who
lean
this
way
.
Many
Monsters
come
out
of
your
Independent
Churches
,
therefore
surely
t
is
not
of
God
;
If
it
were
a
state
congruous
to
the
Word
,
surely
it
would
not
bring
forth
so
many
heresies
,
divisions
,
confusions
.
Sol
.
To
this
I
answer
first
thus
:
All
is
not
true
that
is
said
of
Congregationall
Churches
,
and
of
their
friends
;
it
hath
been
an
old
wile
of
the
Divell
,
to
calumniate
much
,
and
something
will
stick
;
nay
,
by
this
we
are
cast
out
as
a
reproach
unto
the
prophane
,
and
with
them
much
sticks
,
as
much
as
is
said
of
us
,
sticks
with
them
,
and
a
great
deal
more
they
can
tell
how
to
adde
upon
all
occasions
.
Nay
,
I
know
,
all
is
not
true
which
is
Printed
of
persons
loving
and
honouring
Churches
,
of
such
a
constitution
and
complexion
as
I
have
mentioned
.
Witnesse
Mr.
Edwards
Gangren
.
Nay
,
witnesse
Mr.
Rutherfurds
Spirituall
Antichrist
,
pag
.
250
,
251.
&c.
Where
you
shall
finde
the
Lord
Gen.
Cromwell
charged
with
publick
scandal
and
unsoundnesse
in
the
Faith
,
because
of
a
Letter
which
he
wrote
to
the
Parliament
;
which
Letter
I
here
give
the
Reader
,
as
taken
out
of
Mr.
Rutherfurds
Book
,
that
all
the
world
may
read
and
judge
what
unsound
doctrine
is
in
it
.
Presbyterians
,
Independents
,
all
have
here
(
i
.
)
in
the
Army
,
the
same
spirit
of
faith
and
prayer
,
the
same
presence
and
answer
;
they
agree
here
,
and
know
no
names
of
difference
:
pity
it
is
it
should
be
otherwise
any
where
.
All
that
believe
have
the
reall
unity
,
which
is
most
glorious
,
because
inward
and
spirituall
in
the
body
,
and
to
the
Head
.
For
,
being
united
in
forms
,
commonly
called
uniformity
,
every
Christian
will
for
peace
sake
study
,
and
do
as
far
as
conscience
will
permit
.
And
from
brethren
in
things
of
the
minde
,
we
look
for
no
compulsion
,
but
that
of
light
and
reason
;
in
other
things
,
God
hath
put
the
sword
in
the
Parliaments
hands
,
for
the
terror
of
evil-doers
,
and
the
praise
of
them
that
do
well
:
If
any
plead
exemption
from
it
,
he
knowes
not
the
Gospel
:
If
any
would
wring
it
out
of
your
hands
,
or
steal
it
from
you
,
under
what
pretence
soever
,
I
hope
they
shall
do
it
without
effect
:
that
God
will
maintain
it
in
your
hand
,
and
direct
you
in
the
use
thereof
,
is
the
prayer
of
,
&
e
.
What
Heresie
is
in
this
Letter
,
I
know
not
:
indeed
according
to
that
Logick
which
David
speaks
of
,
Psal
.
56.5
.
every
day
they
wrest
my
words
,
all
their
thoughts
are
against
me
for
evill
.
And
which
Solomon
mentioneth
,
—
Surely
the
wringing
of
the
nose
bringeth
forth
bloud
,
&c.
All
that
Mr.
Rutherfurd
hath
inferred
,
may
be
collected
from
the
Text
:
As
true
,
as
kinde
,
and
as
Christian
is
his
construction
of
that
Letter
,
as
humble
,
holy
and
true
is
that
assertion
of
his
,
concerning
all
Independents
in
England
,
viz.
To
my
knowledge
,
there
is
not
this
day
in
England
,
any
that
is
a
meer
Independent
,
which
maintaineth
nothing
but
Independencie
,
with
most
of
these
of
New-England
,
and
does
not
hold
other
unsound
and
corrupt
tenets
,
&c.
Rutherfurds
Spirituall
Antichrist
,
page
251.
It
makes
me
tremble
to
read
this
expression
,
when
I
remember
from
whom
it
comes
:
Surely
there
be
many
Independents
in
England
,
that
this
good
man
is
a
stranger
to
,
and
how
he
should
then
dare
to
speak
so
of
them
all
as
he
does
,
is
fearfull
,
If
Christians
can
allow
themselves
this
kinde
of
latitude
,
to
gloss
upon
their
Brethrens
words
and
persons
,
I
know
not
how
any
man
shall
so
speak
,
write
,
or
live
,
as
not
to
be
printed
and
staged
to
all
the
World
for
an
Heretick
.
When
I
compare
these
Lines
with
those
in
M.
Rutherfurds
Epistle
to
the
same
Book
,
I
tremble
indeed
,
viz.
If
I
lift
up
my
hand
,
or
bloudy
pen
against
the
truly
Godly
,
or
have
a
pick
at
Holinesse
,
let
mine
arm
fall
from
my
shoulder
blade
,
and
mine
arm
be
broken
from
the
bone
.
Secondly
,
I
would
answer
thus
;
that
there
is
difference
between
a
cause
and
an
occasion
.
That
we
walk
in
any
fundamentall
Truth
in
the
power
of
it
,
many
take
occasion
from
hence
to
scoff
,
break
forth
into
much
wickednesse
:
What
now
?
Is
it
not
therefore
the
Truth
which
we
follow
,
or
must
we
leave
following
it
,
because
many
take
occasion
from
hence
,
to
run
out
into
all
evill
.
At
light
hath
broken
out
in
every
age
of
the
World
,
Satan
hath
this
way
(
when
he
could
no
other
way
)
laboured
to
darken
it
,
by
extracting
poison
out
of
honey
and
the
honey
comb
.
As
in
the
beginning
of
its
looking
out
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
of
blindnes
,
when
some
of
the
first
Fathers
began
to
lay
again
that
great
principle
and
fundamental
of
the
Trinity
,
the
Divell
to
darken
this
,
set
a-foot
Arrian
Heresie
,
which
Hereticks
were
bloudy
enough
;
but
when
this
would
not
do
,
the
Divell
spread
their
Tenent
,
that
the
whole
Heavens
were
darkened
(
as
it
were
)
with
these
Locusts
.
After
this
,
when
some
of
the
modern
Fathers
,
laid
that
great
fundamentall
point
of
Justification
by
Faith
in
Christ
,
to
darken
this
,
the
Divel
conjured
up
your
Anabaptist
in
Germany
,
a
generation
much
like
your
Levellers
and
Ranters
now
,
which
denyed
Propriety
,
Magistracie
,
all
indeed
which
was
good
,
and
by
this
made
great
Insurrections
and
troubles
,
as
History
abundantly
shewes
.
Now
in
this
period
of
time
,
God
hath
made
another
accession
of
light
,
respecting
the
roof
and
up-p●rt
of
the
House
,
and
now
what
stirs
,
dusts
,
mists
fogs
doth
the
Divell
exhale
!
Why
,
what
now
?
Is
all
therefore
darknes
drosse
,
because
the
Divell
thus
maketh
many
abuse
this
season
,
and
the
helps
and
grace
which
is
come
unto
them
?
I
think
things
about
which
the
Divell
doth
make
such
ado
,
may
rather
be
thought
to
have
something
in
them
,
rather
then
from
hence
to
conclude
,
they
have
nothing
of
God
in
them
;
because
the
Divell
doth
not
usually
set
against
his
own
,
doth
not
divide
against
the
Divell
.
When
this
new
Heaven
,
as
the
Prophet
calls
it
;
when
this
new
Order
,
respecting
Gods
House
,
was
first
set
up
at
Jerusalem
,
what
bloody
stirs
it
made
there
.
When
first
set
up
at
Antioch
,
what
work
it
made
there
—
no
small
dissention
,
Act.
15.2
.
and
yet
the
minde
of
God
.
Ob.
But
till
Independence
,
no
such
sharp
and
bloudy
stirs
and
dissentions
.
Sol
.
Presbyterians
began
first
to
draw
the
sword
,
and
their
bitternesse
and
basenesse
,
hath
heightned
it
to
that
to
which
otherwise
in
likely
hood
,
it
could
not
have
come
.
The
two
latter
Summers
wars
have
been
the
sharpest
,
I
know
they
w●ll
say
,
that
they
have
felt
,
and
truly
whether
their
froward
spirit
did
not
principally
raise
these
storms
,
I
leave
themselves
to
judge
;
they
converted
so
many
Malignants
into
Presbyterians
,
&
e
contra
,
that
if
God
had
not
been
more
gracious
,
then
they
ingenuous
,
they
had
undone
themselves
and
others
too
.
Ob.
Simon
Magus
was
a
man
in
the
Gall
of
bitternesse
,
and
in
the
bonds
of
iniquity
,
yet
upon
his
Profession
of
Faith
in
Christ
,
he
was
received
into
Church
fellowship
:
Therefore
meer
profession
is
sufficient
to
this
State
,
and
no
more
to
be
lookt
after
de
jure
,
nisi
ex
abundanti
.
Sol
.
Surely
t
was
not
shews
but
substance
which
was
lookt
at
,
and
conceived
i●deed
to
be
in
this
man
,
so
far
as
man
can
judge
(
i
.
)
of
a
tree
by
his
fruit
,
for
de
●ccultis
non
judicat
Ecclesia
.
There
were
surely
outward
signes
of
Repentance
in
this
man
,
and
such
as
the
Apostle
Peter
,
who
received
him
unto
fellowship
,
was
satisfied
in
,
for
what
Peter
required
at
the
hands
of
those
,
Act.
238.
Repent
and
be
baptized
every
one
of
you
,
in
the
Name
of
Iesus
Christ
,
for
the
Remission
of
sins
,
&c
,
He
would
and
did
follow
the
same
Rule
of
Christ
▪
which
he
had
received
,
and
delivered
to
others
,
and
therefore
required
as
m●ch
at
Simons
hands
,
If
he
would
not
dispense
with
this
rule
,
to
one
of
those
great
number
(
Repent
and
be
baptized
every
one
of
you
)
surely
you
have
no
reason
to
think
that
P●●er
durst
exact
lesse
of
this
man
,
to
be
satisfied
in
him
,
especially
hearing
what
a
creature
he
had
been
,
and
ring-leader
in
evill
.
That
Simon
Magus
did
deceive
the
Apostle
,
just
as
D●mas
did
Paul
,
&
give
such
outward
appearance
of
real
inward
Grace
,
that
the
Apostle
thought
him
to
be
suteable
to
the
Rule
of
Church-triall
before
mentioned
,
is
evident
by
what
is
said
of
him
,
as
also
by
consent
of
the
Learned
,
who
write
of
him
as
of
Judas
,
one
that
carryed
himself
so
craftily
,
that
he
seemed
a
true
and
reall
Saint
.
—
T
is
said
,
that
when
he
was
baptized
,
he
continued
with
Philip
,
{αβγδ}
,
in
the
Primitive
,
{αβγδ}
,
semper
adsum
,
perdure
assiduus
sum
.
The
word
is
attributed
to
the
hunting
of
dogs
,
sa●th
the
Critick
,
which
will
not
cease
following
the
game
till
they
have
got
it
,
and
such
a
dog
no
doubt
did
Simon
seem
,
one
that
would
have
crumbs
at
least
,
or
else
he
would
not
,
he
could
not
have
answe●ed
the
ballance
of
the
Sanctuary
,
the
rule
of
tryall
,
which
the
Apostles
put
to
every
one
.
It
signifies
to
persevere
with
strength
,
but
we
will
give
our selves
continually
to
Prayer
{αβγδ}
.
It
fignifies
to
attend
upon
a
work
undertaken
,
to
stand
to
it
,
to
be
instant
at
it
.
For
they
●●e
Gods
Ministers
,
[
attending
continually
]
upon
this
very
thing
,
Rom.
13.6
.
Thus
no
doubt
was
Simon
,
very
diligent
and
full
of
care
,
and
circumspection
,
to
carry
it
so
in
all
things
,
that
he
might
carry
it
with
all
beholders
,
equally
to
the
Apostles
themselves
,
that
he
might
still
be
as
high
in
every
ones
opinion
,
even
in
the
opinion
of
the
Apostles
themselves
,
as
he
was
in
the
opinion
of
the
blinde
and
deluded
multitude
.
To
this
agreeth
the
opinion
of
the
Learned
.
Simon
himself
believed
,
&c.
{αβγδ}
(
i
.
)
Professus
est
Fidem
,
&c.
Meton
.
subjecti
.
Joan
Piscat
.
Being
convinced
by
evidence
of
Gods
Power
,
made
outward
profession
of
his
Faith
,
and
Conversion
.
English
Annotations
.
—
Et
adhaerebat
ipsi
Philipo
&
baptizatus
perdurabat
apud
Philippum
,
&
conspiciens
signa
&
virtutes
magnas
edi
,
obstupefiebat
:
impii
quoque
,
&
reprobi
interdum
coguntur
bonum
Dei
donum
gustare
,
sed
&
mox
evomant
.
Jun.
Tremel
.
Another
writes
of
him
thus
:
Vehementer
stupefactus
admirabatur
,
&c.
Persimiles
sunt
Simoni
Mago
qui
simulant
se●credere
nunc
Evangelio
,
non
aliam
ob
causam
quam
ut
multitudine
placeant
,
&
famam
&
gloriam
suam
non
amittant
,
aut
inde
quoque
suum
quaestum
adaugeant
,
ex
Ecclesiasticis
divitiis
.
Chuon
.
Pel
.
Minist
.
Ecclesiae
.
Tigurinae
.
Vel
beati
Philippi
verbis
&
virtute
victus
,
veraciter
Domino
credidit
:
vel
ut
magis
credibile
est
,
credere
se
quoadusque
Baptisma
susciperet
simulavit
;
ut
quoniam
laudis
erat
avidissimus
,
ita
ut
Christum
se
credi
vellet
,
sicut
Historiae
narrant
,
artes
ab
eo
quibus
miracula
facere●
,
edisceret
,
Bed
.
in
Bibliam
.
Sac
.
vulgat
.
edit
.
All
these
Testimonies
I
adde
,
for
the
Learneds
sake
,
that
they
may
see
,
and
know
,
that
Simon
so
carried
the
matter
,
that
he
seemed
another
guesse
man
,
then
a
meer
Professor
,
or
otherwise
the
Apostles
had
not
received
him
:
and
when
that
his
hypocrisie
did
appear
,
the
Apostle
rejected
him
as
one
not
in
Christ
,
and
as
one
who
had
no
share
in
reall
grace
,
and
upon
that
ground
rejected
communion
with
such
an
hypocr●te
,
and
branded
him
as
he
was
,
that
all
else
might
know
what
they
had
to
do
,
namely
,
to
follow
that
rule
of
the
Apostle
,
2.
Tim
.
3.5
.
Having
a
forme
of
godlinesse
,
but
denying
the
power
thereof
,
from
such
turn
away
.
which
place
shewes
plainly
,
that
't
was
the
power
,
and
not
the
Profession
,
and
form
that
was
looked
at
,
and
is
to
be
looked
at
in
the
admission
of
members
into
the
visible
Church
.
Ob.
The
Apostle
saith
,
that
in
a
great
house
there
are
not
onely
vessels
of
Gold
and
of
Silver
,
2
Tim
.
2.20
.
but
also
of
wood
,
and
of
earth
,
and
some
to
honour
,
and
some
to
dishonour
.
By
house
he
meaneth
the
visible
Church
:
therefore
che
visible
Church
may
consist
of
good
and
bad
.
Sol
.
That
there
may
be
bad
men
in
a
Church
,
hath
not
been
denyed
in
all
this
discourse
.
Because
such
is
the
art
and
craft
of
Hypocrites
to
delude
the
judgment
of
the
best
men
:
But
he
saith
not
that
these
vessels
of
earth
and
wood
,
are
there
allowedly
,
but
they
are
there
to
dishonour
;
that
is
,
being
crept
i●
where
they
should
not
be
,
as
Jude
speaks
,
they
are
to
be
cast
out
of
the
Church
as
dishonourable
,
as
so
indeed
was
Hymeneas
,
and
Philetus
,
of
whom
the
Apostle
there
speaks
in
the
verses
foregoing
,
of
whom
,
and
of
one
Alexander
,
2
Tim
.
2.17
,
18
see
what
he
saith
,
1
Tim
.
1.20
.
Of
whom
is
Hymeneus
and
Alexan●er
,
whom
I
have
delivered
unto
Satan
,
that
they
may
learn
not
to
blaspheme
,
who
had
put
away
faith
and
a
good
conscience
,
which
shewes
,
that
when
men
put
away
that
which
they
seemed
to
have
,
Faith
coupled
with
a
good
Conscience
,
they
are
to
be
put
away
to
their
master
,
as
vessels
of
dishonour
,
and
appointed
to
wrath
.
Moreover
by
this
great
house
,
he
first
means
the
Church
of
the
Ephesians
,
for
whose
sake
Paul
wrote
to
Timothy
,
being
a
watch-man
there
,
and
what
they
were
according
to
the
judgement
of
the
Apostle
which
wrote
to
them
,
you
have
heard
.
My
purpose
was
to
have
preached
upon
other
parts
of
Church-Order
,
but
God
denying
opportunity
,
I
thought
good
to
make
this
Appendix
,
which
contains
two
Assertions
.
SECT
.
I.
ASSERT
.
I.
THat
the
Eldership
which
is
within
the
particular
Congregation
,
is
not
in
most
weighty
things
,
to
exert
power
,
without
the
consent
and
approbation
of
the
Church
whereof
they
are
.
By
things
most
weighty
,
I
mean
those
things
which
are
most
essential
to
the
state
of
a
visible
Church
:
as
admission
of
Members
,
ordination
of
Officers
,
and
excommunication
of
either
.
ASSERT
.
II
.
THat
Presbyteries
or
Elderships
,
which
are
without
the
particular
Congregation
,
exercising
authoritative
and
coercive
power
over
it
,
are
an
invention
of
man
:
By
Presbyteries
or
Elderships
without
the
Congregation
;
I
mean
,
such
an
Eldership
as
is
exerp't
and
pickt
out
of
severall
particular
Churches
,
combinding
and
assuming
to
themselves
superiour
and
decisive
power
over
those
particular
Churches
:
Such
an
Eldership
,
with
such
a
power
,
is
unwarranted
by
the
Word
.
SECT
.
II
.
THat
the
Eldership
of
a
particular
Congregation
,
is
not
in
most
weighty
things
,
to
exert
power
,
without
the
consent
and
approbation
of
the
Church
whereof
they
are
,
I
prove
by
these
Arguments
:
1.
First
,
Because
the
power
of
the
Keyes
was
not
at
first
given
to
Peter
,
as
an
Apostle
,
or
as
an
Elder
,
but
as
a
Believer
:
for
,
upon
the
Confession
of
his
faith
,
had
he
this
trust
bequeathed
to
him
,
Matt
.
16.16
.
Therefore
to
the
Church
of
Believers
,
and
believing
with
such
a
faith
as
flesh
and
blood
cannot
reveal
,
was
the
Keyes
of
power
primarily
given
,
and
to
the
Elders
in
the
second
place
,
as
exerted
out
of
this
first
state
,
and
as
Officers
and
Servants
of
it
.
To
this
agreeth
that
of
one
of
the
Learned
,
Claves
datae
sunt
Ecclesiae
,
&
in
actu
primo
,
&
Petro
,
ut
in
actu
secundo
.
Gerson
.
SECT
.
III
.
2.
SEcondly
,
because
Elders
are
set
over
the
Church
,
by
the
voluntary
choise
of
the
Church
,
whereof
they
are
such
Officers
,
who
choose
them
to
be
their
Ministers
in
the
Lord
,
and
may
depose
them
again
,
if
they
prove
unworthy
of
such
a
Station
:
therefore
have
they
no
absolute
power
over
that
Church
,
to
which
they
are
servants
,
but
in
the
nature
of
guides
to
direct
them
in
the
wayes
of
the
Lord
,
and
so
long
as
they
go
right
,
to
be
honoured
and
followed
;
but
if
otherwise
,
to
be
admonished
;
and
if
impenitent
,
to
be
rejected
,
as
they
whose
sins
follow
after
to
judgement
.
Now
such
judgement
could
not
be
exercised
upon
Elders
;
if
such
an
exempted
power
be
taken
to
themselves
,
without
the
Church
,
but
might
do
what
they
please
with
the
Church
in
which
they
are
Servants
,
and
the
Church
not
be
able
,
or
at
least
not
sufficiently
able
,
to
do
any
thing
to
them
;
which
is
to
make
them
Lords
over
Gods
heritage
.
1
Pet
5.3
.
Petrus
Apostolus
rationem
reddere
Ecclesiae
cogitur
,
nec
dedignatus
est
,
Act.
11.4
.
no
ver
at
enim
se
non
Ecclesiae
Dominum
,
sed
ministrum
.
Ecclesia
Christi
Sponsa
est
,
Petrus
servus
&
minister
solus
.
Omnia
enim
sunt
Ecclesiae
,
Paulus
,
Apollo
,
Cephus
,
1.
Cor
.
3.22
,
Paraclesis
pag
.
157.
SECT
.
IV
.
3.
THirdly
,
Because
otherwise
the
Elders
cannot
but
offend
the
litle
ones
of
the
Church
,
yea
the
tender
consciences
of
stronger
brethren
,
forasmuch
as
persons
may
be
taken
in
and
cast
out
,
and
Officers
set
up
and
pulled
down
;
concerning
either
of
which
,
they
can
have
no
distinct
knowledge
,
or
at
least
,
no
sufficient
ability
to
hinder
,
because
decisive
sentence
lyes
altogether
in
the
Eldership
.
Neither
is
this
an
offence
taken
,
but
given
,
forasmuch
as
in
these
great
transactions
,
the
benefit
or
hurt
of
every
Member
,
is
not
onely
equally
,
but
greatly
and
mainly
concerned
.
The
transactions
of
other
things
,
which
are
meerly
prudent●all
,
or
not
of
generall
concernment
,
or
not
of
so
great
generall
concernment
,
no
doubt
do
properly
and
determinately
belong
to
that
power
which
the
Church
doth
institute
within
themselves
,
as
their
eyes
and
hands
,
more
conveniently
,
decently
,
and
expeditiously
to
deal
w●th
.
Now
to
give
offence
to
Christs
little
ones
,
one
of
the
least
of
his
Family
,
is
not
onely
forbidden
but
threatned
w●th
very
heavy
punishment
,
Mat
.
18.6
,
10.
Which
was
spoken
immediatly
to
the
Apostles
,
to
the
twelve
,
as
you
may
see
,
if
you
compare
this
place
with
Mark
9.35
,
36.
And
Jesus
called
the
twelve
,
and
said
unto
them
,
If
any
man
desire
to
be
first
,
the
same
shall
be
last
of
all
,
and
servant
of
all
;
and
he
took
a
Child
and
set
him
in
the
midst
of
[
them
]
&c.
That
is
the
Apostles
and
Disciples
.
SECT
.
V.
4.
FOurthly
,
because
the
spirit
of
discerning
,
both
respecting
Persons
and
things
,
is
not
confined
as
a
peculiar
to
the
Presbytery
,
or
Eldership
of
the
Church
,
as
if
the
whole
body
were
but
that
one
eye
,
or
as
if
they
alone
were
the
head
,
bearing
all
the
senses
in
them
;
But
the
same
gift
may
be
in
a
great
measure
in
some
of
the
members
,
and
a
greater
gift
when
all
are
joyned
together
in
the
Name
of
Christ
,
and
his
Presence
with
them
,
to
discern
and
judge
.
Of
a
conjunct
strength
of
Saints
,
what
mighty
thing●
and
glorious
are
spoken
in
the
Scriptures
;
that
they
shall
judge
the
world
,
much
more
able
to
iudge
their
own
affaires
,
in
a
far
narrower
compasse
:
that
they
shall
judge
Angels
,
1
Cor
.
6.23
.
Moreover
we
know
that
the
Scripture
again
saith
,
that
variety
of
gifts
are
given
to
the
Church
,
as
Christ
wil
,
&
when
he
wil
,
at
what
door
,
and
by
what
mean
hand
he
wil
,
for
the
good
of
the
whole
,
and
light
comes
in
some
times
from
a
little
crany
,
and
hole
,
when
large
windows
are
close
shut
up
,
and
not
one
window
leaf
opened
,
all
the
while
businesse
of
great
weight
are
in
debate
;
so
that
the
greatest
cannot
say
to
the
least
,
I
have
no
need
of
thee
.
All
this
help
to
the
good
of
the
whole
,
would
be
made
void
,
if
the
managing
of
all
things
be
committed
wholly
to
the
Presbytery
,
and
the
people
left
out
,
onely
to
see
and
judge
implicitely
,
by
their
eyes
and
wills
,
who
thus
impropriate
power
.
SECT
.
VI
.
5.
FIfthly
,
because
in
these
weighty
things
forementioned
,
of
Censures
,
Ordinations
,
&c.
The
Scripture
is
expresse
,
that
the
whole
Church
should
be
joyntly
Authoritative
about
them
,
and
not
the
Presbytery
or
Eldership
of
the
Church
alone
.
I
will
instance
in
each
of
these
:
As
for
censures
,
the
command
of
Christ
,
is
,
that
we
tell
the
Church
,
Mat
.
18.17
.
which
word
I
judge
doth
mean
the
whole
Church
,
and
not
the
Presbytery
or
Eldership
onely
,
unlesse
I
could
find
the
Church
thus
used
in
Scripture
,
for
the
Presbytery
onely
.
If
it
should
be
said
,
Church
here
,
means
the
Jewish
Synedrion
,
and
so
by
proportion
the
Eldership
of
the
Gospel
Church
.
To
this
I
answer
first
,
that
the
Synedrion
was
instituted
for
civill
affairs
between
man
and
man
,
to
bear
humane
burdens
,
the
burdens
of
the
people
,
Numb
.
11.17
.
although
even
these
Officers
also
,
had
an
immediate
unction
of
the
spirit
,
by
which
they
prophesied
,
v.
25.
How
far
the
latter
gift
was
of
use
,
and
exercised
by
them
,
is
hard
to
finde
out
;
but
how
the
other
gift
was
used
,
to
wit
,
to
bear
the
common
burdens
of
the
people
,
and
to
be
servants
to
them
,
as
afterwards
Judges
and
Kings
were
,
as
the
expression
is
,
1.
King
.
12.7
.
—
If
thou
wilt
be
a
servant
to
this
people
,
&c.
is
manifest
.
And
I
should
think
,
that
this
spirit
of
Prophesie
was
a
g●ft
some
way
subservient
to
the
particular
station
and
office
to
which
called
out
,
seeing
it
is
said
,
that
it
was
that
Spirit
which
God
took
off
of
Moses
,
and
gave
it
to
the
70.
which
when
they
had
,
as
Moses
was
a
Prophet
by
way
of
redundancie
,
from
the
spirit
of
his
Place
,
and
spake
of
Chr●st
;
so
these
,
by
way
of
redundancie
,
yet
from
the
spirit
of
their
Place
,
as
such
annointed
civill
officers
,
were
also
Prophets
in
some
passages
,
and
spake
of
Christ
,
but
still
the
form
of
their
Office
abiding
civill
.
Synagoga
sunt
conventus
●cclesia●●ici
,
●ynedria
conventus
judicum
.
Scultet
exercit
.
Evangel
,
lib
.
2.
cap
.
11.
Now
to
make
a
proportion
,
from
a
civill
Station
,
to
an
Ecclesiast●cal
,
is
not
regular
.
SECT
.
VII
.
BUt
I
see
no
reason
at
all
from
the
context
,
why
it
should
be
thought
,
that
the
Jewish
Representive
,
of
one
kinde
or
other
,
should
be
here
meant
;
their
conventus
judicum
,
or
their
conventus
Ecclesiastici
;
for
,
there
is
nothing
foregoing
or
following
,
that
gives
any
leaning
language
,
this
way
:
but
,
much
to
insinuate
and
signifie
,
that
he
speaks
of
that
Church
,
which
should
speedily
take
place
,
to
wit
,
the
order
of
the
Gospel
Church
:
for
he
speaks
in
the
verse
foregoing
of
little
ones
,
which
he
explains
to
be
true
Believers
,
and
converted
ones
,
v.
6.
and
v.
3.
And
this
is
made
the
qualification
of
the
visible
members
of
the
New
Church
,
in
the
Chapter
foregoing
,
Mat
.
16.17
.
Then
the
very
words
of
censure
,
in
case
the
Church
should
be
disobeyed
,
are
the
same
with
those
he
useth
to
Peter
,
when
he
gave
the
Keys
to
him
upon
his
Fath
,
—
Whatsoever
ye
binde
on
earth
,
&c.
Mat
.
18.18
.
And
just
thus
saith
he
to
Peter
ch
.
16.19
.
And
I
will
give
unto
thee
the
Keyes
of
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
and
whatsoever
thou
shalt
bind
on
earth
,
&c.
So
that
the
one
explains
the
other
;
that
by
Church
,
is
not
meant
the
Presbytery
,
or
Eldership
of
one
kinde
or
other
,
but
the
Gospel
Church
,
the
Congregation
of
Beleevers
;
these
conjunctim
have
the
Power
to
censure
and
cast
out
,
according
to
that
1
Cor
.
5.4
.
When
you
are
gathered
together
,
&c.
to
deliver
such
a
one
to
Satan
&c.
And
by
the
same
joynt
power
received
in
again
,
that
as
his
punishment
was
by
many
,
so
his
consolation
and
reception
might
be
by
many
also
;
as
t
is
2.
Cor
.
2.16
.
that
Satan
might
take
no
advantage
;
which
is
enough
to
shew
,
how
that
admission
of
Members
should
be
a
joynt
Act
of
the
Church
,
as
well
as
excommunication
of
Members
.
The
contrary
to
this
understanding
of
these
and
such
like
places
,
serves
either
to
maintain
an
Episcopal
power
over
the
Church
,
which
is
all
one
with
the
Papall
;
or
else
an
usurpation
like
unto
it
by
the
Presbytery
,
in
managing
all
things
without
the
people
,
which
in
effect
comes
all
to
one
,
that
the
people
in
all
publick
censures
,
admissions
,
are
but
meer
spectators
of
what
is
done
,
which
is
the
very
doctrine
and
exposition
of
the
Jesuits
of
Rhemes
upon
that
place
fore-cited
:
See
Rhem
.
Annot
.
on
1.
Corinth
.
5.4
.
with
their
marginall
Notes
;
And
so
by
a
circular
motion
,
we
shall
come
from
the
Papall
to
the
Episcopall
,
and
from
the
Episcopall
to
the
Presbyteriall
,
and
from
the
Presbyteriall
to
the
Papall
power
again
,
of
depriving
the
people
of
God
of
their
best
Liberties
,
in
matters
so
much
concerning
them
,
there
being
little
ods
under
whom
they
have
the
same
bondage
,
whether
they
be
brought
in
bondage
by
one
Prelate
,
or
by
many
Presbyters
;
who
as
they
take
power
to
themselves
without
the
Word
,
may
justly
have
the
same
title
,
with
other
usurpers
and
Lords
over
the
flock
of
Christ
.
SECT
.
VIII
.
1
Further
instance
may
yet
be
given
,
In
the
Synod
held
at
Jerusalem
,
where
the
Apostles
themselves
were
present
,
&
divers
Elders
with
them
the
matters
being
of
great
consequence
,
as
well
for
faith
as
practice
;
yet
nothing
was
done
in
the
beginning
,
carrying
on
,
or
ending
of
the
same
,
but
with
interessing
the
Congregation
and
the
Brethren
,
their
names
being
to
the
Letters
,
they
speaking
in
the
Assembly
,
they
having
satisfaction
by
argument
,
and
not
over-born
by
authority
,
and
these
joyning
their
assent
,
in
sending
back
chosen
Messengers
from
amongst
them
,
as
Judas
and
Silas
,
to
other
Churches
;
it
were
the
Apostles
,
Elders
,
with
the
whole
Church
,
that
joyned
in
it
,
as
appears
,
Act.
15.22
,
23.
If
at
any
time
the
Church
might
have
been
left
out
,
it
might
have
been
at
such
a
time
as
this
,
when
the
inspired
Apostles
were
present
,
and
in
matters
of
this
nature
.
And
albeit
the
Apostles
might
have
determined
what
should
be
held
or
done
by
their
infallible
Apostolick
power
,
yet
would
they
not
leave
such
an
example
to
future
Ages
of
such
a
way
:
that
is
,
either
for
Peter
as
Primate
,
to
introduce
a
Pope
,
or
Presbyters
as
Primates
,
to
introduce
a
Superintendent
,
or
Superintendents
,
a
Generall
coercive
Assembly
,
or
coercive
Kirk-generall
Commissioners
,
to
supersede
all
power
of
the
People
,
and
particular
Assemblies
of
Saints
.
SECT
.
IX
.
2.
FUrther
instance
yet
may
be
given
,
in
the
choise
of
certain
Officers
or
Deacons
to
attend
Tables
,
which
is
made
by
the
Apostle
an
inferior
office
,
and
yet
the
Apostles
would
not
proceed
to
this
,
by
a
private
power
of
their
own
,
but
required
the
whole
multitude
of
Believers
,
to
make
their
own
choise
of
such
persons
,
and
so
qualified
:
which
election
they
confirmed
,
and
not
nulled
,
or
any
way
altered
,
Act.
6.3
,
5.
And
this
,
saith
Calvin
,
legitima
ratio
communibus
suffragiis
eligi
,
qui
publicum
aliquod
in
Ecclesia
munus
obituri
sunt
.
SECT
.
X.
3.
A
Further
instance
yet
may
be
given
in
ordination
of
Elders
,
which
was
done
{αβγδ}
,
communibus
calculis
,
simul
suffragiis
electus
est
,
Act.
1.26
.
By
joynt
voice
was
Matthias
ordained
to
his
Place
,
after
the
Lord
had
pointed
out
which
of
the
two
should
be
the
Successor
of
Judas
.
One
would
have
thought
,
that
the
Lords
pointing
out
the
man
,
had
been
enough
to
formalize
the
whole
matter
;
and
yet
left
this
might
prove
a
means
,
to
jostle
out
the
priviledge
of
the
whole
Church
,
in
matters
of
essentiall
concernment
;
after
the
Lords
designation
which
was
proper
to
him
,
they
joyntly
take
this
designation
,
and
enstate
him
amongst
them
,
not
by
the
suffrages
of
some
,
but
by
the
suffrages
of
the
whole
Church
,
as
appears
by
the
preparing
and
drawing
out
of
the
whole
to
this
particular
work
by
the
Apostle
Peter
,
who
stood
up
in
the
midst
of
the
Disciples
,
the
number
being
about
a
hundred
and
twenty
,
and
speaks
of
this
matter
jointly
to
all
,
and
tells
them
that
twas
meet
,
that
some
one
that
was
well
approved
among
them
,
and
had
gone
in
&
out
amongst
them
,
might
be
chosen
by
them
,
and
[
they
]
appoint
two
,
&c.
[
they
]
gave
forth
their
lots
,
and
so
they
numbred
him
,
or
ordained
him
which
the
lot
fell
upon
.
And
this
opens
that
,
Act.
14.23
.
which
also
strengthens
what
we
have
in
hand
:
And
when
they
had
ordained
them
Elders
in
every
Church
{αβγδ}
from
{αβγδ}
which
signifies
a
hand
,
I
am
not
ignorant
that
learned
and
worthy
men
judge
,
that
here
was
no
ordination
,
but
●nely
an
election
,
of
which
the
Apostle
did
approve
,
but
pace
tanti
viri
,
I
am
of
another
opinion
,
prayer
&
fasting
being
joyned
,
the
necessary
attendents
of
ordination
.
and
{αβγδ}
attollo
,
to
lift
up
,
which
sheweth
what
this
ordination
in
the
formality
of
it
,
was
,
that
the
Apostles
in
and
with
every
Church
of
Be●ievers
where
they
came
,
did
make
suffrage
who
should
under-go
this
great
Office
of
Eldership
in
such
Churches
,
and
so
joyntly
with
each
Church
,
and
not
by
a
distinct
exempted
power
above
them
,
was
this
work
done
,
according
to
the
first
patern
fore-mentioned
in
the
Acts.
For
,
to
apply
this
onely
to
the
Apostles
,
which
in
number
were
but
two
,
Paul
and
Barnabas
,
were
improper
to
the
nature
of
the
word
which
is
here
used
:
for
two
to
lift
up
their
hands
;
suffrage
is
not
a
thing
to
be
managed
by
two
,
as
fencing
is
not
a
thing
capable
to
be
done
by
one
;
suffrage
doth
suppose
many
,
and
these
many
,
to
be
disti●guished
which
way
they
incline
,
or
not
incline
,
by
some
signall
,
visible
to
all
lookers
on
.
Now
by
these
two
first
examples
,
are
other
Scriptures
which
speak
of
Ordination
,
as
if
they
did
attribute
it
to
the
Elders
onely
,
to
be
interpreted
,
if
other
answers
more
proper
to
such
places
cannot
be
found
out
.
SECT
.
XI
.
FInally
,
I
might
instance
in
lower
matters
,
which
would
strengthen
the
Argument
;
for
if
in
less
things
the
Eldership
may
not
act
alone
,
surely
not
in
greater
.
As
in
Letters
recommendatory
,
they
were
not
directed
to
the
Eldership
of
such
a
Church
,
but
to
the
whole
Church
,
of
which
they
were
to
be
received
.
So
Paul
recommended
Phebe
to
the
Church
of
Corinth
.
So
John
wrote
to
the
Church
,
concerning
certain
Brethren
that
were
to
be
received
by
them
,
and
Diotrephes
the
Elder
,
which
stood
upon
his
sole
authority
in
this
and
such
like
things
,
and
used
the
Keyes
at
his
own
pleasure
,
to
keep
out
,
and
cast
out
as
he
would
,
is
branded
with
this
mark
,
not
to
be
of
God
,
but
of
Satan
,
the
father
of
all
evill
,
for
this
very
thing
,
and
one
that
had
not
indeed
seen
God
,
3.
Ep.
Jo
.
11.
SECT
.
XII
.
TAke
common
testimony
to
this
truth
:
In
the
first
times
this
was
so
well
known
,
and
so
frequent
in
practice
,
to
take
in
the
joynt
suffrage
of
the
Congregation
,
in
all
matters
of
greatest
weight
:
That
Bishop
Whitgift
himself
,
one
that
wanted
not
wit
,
nor
learning
,
nor
any
other
helps
,
and
setting
all
his
strength
to
maintain
these
contrary
to
what
we
are
upon
,
yet
is
constrained
to
confess
,
that
in
the
Apostles
times
,
the
state
of
the
Church
was
Democraticall
,
or
Popular
;
the
people
or
multitude
having
a
hand
almost
in
every
thing
,
Whitgifts
defence
p.
182.
Which
word
almost
,
doth
well
suit
the
thing
I
am
upon
,
and
indeed
speaks
,
that
he
saw
much
light
in
this
matter
,
though
he
could
not
receive
it
in
love
;
for
indeed
,
as
I
have
said
,
in
all
weighty
matters
,
all
the
body
did
bear
their
joynt
voice
to
the
transaction
thereof
,
as
hath
bin
before
proved
.
And
whal
else
meaneth
that
Canon
,
that
was
made
in
the
Councel
at
Laodicea
,
330.
years
after
Christ
,
that
the
people
after
that
,
should
have
no
hand
in
the
choise
of
their
Officers
,
unless
formerly
it
was
.
So
Caranza
Epitome
,
page
59.
By
which
common
testimony
,
it
appeareth
,
that
when
Metropolitans
,
and
Bishops
,
and
Superintendents
sprung
up
,
that
then
the
Liberties
of
the
People
were
by
degrees
taken
from
them
,
one
with
this
device
,
and
tother
with
that
invention
,
which
before
they
had
,
which
should
make
the
children
of
these
,
more
willing
to
repent
of
,
and
restore
again
,
then
yet
,
ah
alas
!
words
,
works
,
blowes
,
bloods
of
body
and
soul
will
make
them
:
how
low
,
O
Lord
,
shall
we
be
,
ere
we
lay
to
heart
whom
we
have
so
long
robbed
and
spoiled
,
and
whose
dwelling-place
we
have
so
great
a
time
polluted
and
laid
waste
!
SECT
.
XIII
.
Against
these
grounds
,
are
these
Objections
following
.
Ob.
THe
Apostle
Paul
makes
mention
of
a
Presbytery
or
Eldership
,
by
the
imposition
of
whose
hands
,
and
by
no
other
conjunct
or
previous
thing
,
Timothy
was
ordained
;
therefore
the
Presbyterie
wholly
without
the
Church
,
may
exert
power
authoritative
in
most
weighty
things
,
and
order
and
govern
the
Church
alone
:
See
1.
Tim
.
4.14
.
Neglect
not
the
gift
that
is
in
thee
,
which
was
given
thee
by
prophesie
,
with
the
laying
on
of
the
hands
of
the
Presbytery
.
Sol
.
The
Presbytery
here
cannot
be
meant
of
an
ordinary
Eldership
,
which
hath
its
ordination
from
men
,
because
it
is
beyond
the
power
of
ordinary
officers
,
to
give
being
to
extraordinary
;
now
such
was
Timothy
,
to
wit
,
an
Evangelist
.
And
therefore
comes
not
under
our
Dispute
,
but
is
to
be
ranked
with
extraordinary
Apostolicall
Acts
,
and
ordinations
,
unto
extraordinary
offices
,
which
are
ceased
.
Of
which
nature
see
,
Acts
13.2.3
.
SECT
.
XIV
.
Ob.
WE
read
that
Timothy
and
Titus
did
ordain
,
and
are
exhorted
in
an
ordinary
way
to
go
to
work
,
and
by
an
ordinary
spirit
;
to
wit
,
not
to
lay
hands
suddenly
on
any
man
,
nor
to
be
partiall
,
but
to
weigh
fit
qualifications
in
every
one
,
that
they
were
blamelesse
,
the
husband
of
one
wife
,
not
accused
of
riot
,
not
self-willed
,
not
soon
angry
,
not
given
to
filthy
lucre
,
&c.
1
Tim
.
5.22
.
Tit
.
1.5
.
And
this
ordination
they
acted
alone
,
therefore
the
Eldership
of
a
Church
,
may
do
most
weighty
things
in
the
Church
without
the
joynt
consent
of
the
Church
.
Sol
.
One
of
these
places
answer
another
,
and
opens
another
:
for
it
is
said
to
Titus
,
that
he
should
ordain
Elders
in
every
City
,
as
Paul
had
appointed
him
,
Tit
.
1.5
.
Now
it
cannot
be
thought
in
reason
,
that
the
Apostle
would
appoint
him
to
ordain
,
otherwise
then
he
himself
did
ordain
;
but
he
himself
ordained
by
the
suffrage
of
the
people
,
and
established
them
by
the
help
of
their
fasting
and
prayer
,
Act.
14.23
.
And
this
is
all
which
is
left
upon
record
,
for
direction
in
this
matter
,
as
yet
we
can
find
,
and
therefore
this
appointment
Timothy
and
Titus
must
and
did
follow
,
and
then
the
truth
is
still
abiding
,
which
I
have
laid
down
:
That
Elders
cannot
in
weighty
things
of
the
Church
,
move
determinately
,
without
the
Church
.
If
extraordinary
officers
durst
not
so
do
,
ordinary
officers
surely
have
lesse
reason
so
to
adventure
to
practise
over
their
people
.
SECT
.
XV
.
Ob.
IF
the
Eldership
in
a
particular
Congregation
cannot
determinately
act
in
the
Church
,
without
the
consent
of
the
Church
,
then
Church
government
is
a
Democratie
,
all
are
Elders
,
and
Officers
,
and
Pastors
,
and
Teachers
,
and
Rulers
alike
,
and
then
what
need
differing
names
,
and
stations
,
when
these
as
to
distinct
power
,
signifie
nothing
?
Sol
.
The
power
of
the
Church
may
be
considered
,
as
essentiall
,
or
Organicall
:
things
of
Church
essence
,
I
call
those
weighty
particulars
forementioned
,
to
take
in
,
and
cast
out
,
the
reason
being
alike
in
both
:
Ye
judge
them
which
are
within
,
cast
out
therefore
from
among
you
,
the
incestuous
person
,
1
Cor
.
5.12
.
The
incestuous
person
was
not
onely
among
the
Elders
but
the
people
,
and
they
are
bidden
to
cast
him
out
,
as
well
as
the
other
;
to
exert
office
,
or
degrade
from
office
;
this
I
call
an
essenciall
or
fundamentall
power
,
because
it
is
that
in
which
the
being
of
the
Church
consists
,
and
is
a
right
,
not
in
one
individuall
,
but
in
many
individuals
,
as
united
in
one
Brotherhood
,
fellowship
,
or
society
,
as
a
concret
body
:
and
of
this
fundamentall
power
I
have
all
along
spoken
,
and
this
belongs
equally
to
all
.
But
then
there
is
an
organicall
power
,
which
is
,
Potestas
officii
particularis
,
which
is
that
by
which
every
one
keeps
his
place
and
rank
,
one
as
an
eye
,
another
as
an
hand
,
another
as
a
foot
;
some
as
leaders
,
others
as
followers
,
&c.
Some
to
judge
,
others
to
declare
,
act
,
and
exercise
that
judgement
in
the
name
of
the
rest
,
because
God
is
the
God
of
Order
;
and
because
we
know
that
it
is
confusion
for
all
to
speak
at
once
,
Pray
at
once
:
This
latter
,
to
wit
,
an
organical
power
,
is
proper
to
each
officer
,
and
not
to
the
whole
.
The
power
of
judging
of
Members
to
be
admitted
,
is
common
to
the
whole
Church
,
Elders
and
Fraternity
;
The
manner
of
managing
this
,
and
exerting
this
judgement
to
the
knowledge
and
desire
of
him
that
assayes
to
joyn
himself
to
the
Church
,
is
peculiar
to
office
,
so
may
it
be
said
of
the
rest
:
The
former
is
a
power
lying
formally
in
many
conjoyned
,
and
not
in
any
one
:
The
latter
is
a
power
derived
from
many
,
and
lying
formally
in
one
,
and
not
in
many
,
and
for
those
particular
resultive
works
forementioned
;
and
so
is
their
power
distinctly
usefull
and
significative
,
and
not
uselesse
and
nothing
from
the
whole
.
SECT
.
XVI
.
Ob.
BUt
is
not
this
confusion
,
for
all
to
have
a
hand
in
these
great
things
?
Sol
.
No
:
The
Church
being
considered
as
an
Organicall
body
,
the
power
of
acting
may
be
fundamentally
and
intrinsecally
in
the
whole
,
and
yet
each
Organ
move
orderly
in
his
distinct
place
,
and
way
:
As
for
instance
,
In
the
naturall
body
of
man
,
the
sensitive
faculties
are
all
in
the
soul
originally
;
and
the
soul
it self
,
is
in
the
whole
body
fundamentally
,
tota
in
toto
,
&c.
So
that
the
senses
are
radically
,
and
potentially
in
all
the
soul
,
and
the
soul
radically
and
potentially
in
all
the
body
,
and
yet
these
senses
act
onely
by
such
powers
of
the
body
as
are
fit
to
act
by
;
as
seing
by
the
eye
,
and
hearing
by
the
ear
,
&c.
And
so
the
soul
acts
all
its
works
,
by
such
organs
as
are
proper
to
each
work
;
the
hand
to
work
,
and
the
feet
to
go
.
SECT
.
XVII
.
Ob.
THe
Elders
of
the
Church
are
called
Overseers
,
Stewards
,
Shepherds
,
Fathers
,
all
which
in
their
anologie
,
hold
forth
a
peculiar
and
sole
power
to
do
things
.
Fathers
govern
alone
,
so
Overseers
,
&c.
Sol
.
Minuta's
in
Parables
must
not
be
fastned
on
,
but
principalia
what
is
their
main
scope
,
Elders
are
called
Rulers
,
Heb
.
13.7
.
{αβγδ}
,
Leaders
,
guides
,
as
the
Note
in
the
Margent
shewes
;
which
intends
principally
,
to
direct
according
to
such
Rules
of
the
word
,
wherein
they
should
be
better
skilled
then
the
Congregation
generally
are
,
and
not
absolute
power
over
the
flock
:
To
expound
this
unto
absolute
power
,
is
to
make
the
Apostle
oppose
himself
,
who
affirmes
of
himself
and
others
,
that
as
Lords
they
did
not
use
dominion
over
the
faith
of
any
,
2
Cor
.
1.24
.
Peter
likewise
,
1
Pet
.
5.3
.
but
shewed
themselves
examples
of
the
flock
.
They
are
called
Overseers
,
{αβγδ}
,
such
as
should
use
diligent
inspection
,
Watchfulnesse
,
Heed-taking
to
the
Flock
,
that
none
go
astray
,
none
perish
for
want
of
Counsel
,
Reproof
,
Consolation
,
&c.
But
doth
not
intend
by
these
termes
,
Lord
Bishops
,
or
Lording
Presbyters
,
Lordly
Over-lookers
.
Vi
&
saevitiâ
Dominantes
in
Ecclesia
.
Elders
are
so
Rulers
,
and
so
Over-seers
,
and
so
Shepherds
,
that
they
are
also
Fathers
;
and
so
Fathers
,
as
also
Brethren
;
and
so
Brethren
,
as
a
Brother-hood
,
linked
in
bonds
of
mutuall
and
equall
power
fundamentall
,
together
;
which
no
Organical
power
doth
destroy
,
and
pluck
up
;
but
teach
men
rather
more
exemplarily
to
fulfill
;
as
we
see
in
Christ
,
by
washing
his
Disciples
feet
,
although
he
was
the
great
Bishop
of
our
Souls
,
and
sole
Ruler
indeed
,
and
Law-giver
.
SECT
.
XVIII
.
I
come
now
to
the
second
Assertion
.
THat
Presbyteries
,
or
Elderships
,
which
are
without
the
particular
Congregations
,
exercising
authoritative
,
and
coercive
power
over
it
,
are
an
invention
of
man
.
By
Presbyteries
or
Elderships
without
the
Congregation
,
I
mean
such
an
Eldership
,
as
is
chosen
out
of
severall
particular
Congregations
,
assuming
to
themselves
superior
and
decisive
power
over
them
:
Such
an
Eldership
with
such
a
power
,
is
a
device
of
mans
wisdom
:
which
I
prove
by
these
arguments
.
SECT
.
XIX
.
FIrst
,
because
they
are
without
foundation
in
the
Word
:
Secondly
,
because
they
oppose
the
Word
.
Thirdly
,
because
it
destroyes
the
end
,
for
which
Church-power
and
jurisdiction
is
.
Fourthly
,
because
the
particular
Church
,
is
compleat
without
it
,
and
Christ
doth
not
use
to
appoint
needlesse
things
,
though
we
oft
times
do
,
being
dark
and
diffident
creatures
:
I
will
plainly
and
briefly
speak
to
all
these
,
and
shut
up
this
discourse
,
and
commend
it
to
the
blessing
of
God
,
in
the
hand
of
every
Reader
that
it
shall
come
to
.
SECT
.
XX
.
FIrst
,
a
coercive
Eldership
out
of
each
particular
Church
,
is
a
device
of
man
,
because
t
is
without
foundation
in
the
Word
.
That
I
may
clear
this
,
two
things
are
to
be
done
;
First
,
to
shew
what
the
nature
of
these
forrain
Elderships
is
;
and
then
,
upon
what
foundations
in
the
Scripture
they
are
built
,
and
try
whether
rightly
and
ingeniously
mortised
in
such
places
,
and
by
this
twill
appear
whether
forrain
and
sojourning
Elderships
have
warrant
by
the
Word
,
or
not
.
For
the
first
,
I
finde
among
our
brethren
themselves
,
That
Elders
and
Brethren
,
sent
and
impowered
from
their
severall
Congregations
respectively
,
to
transact
and
conclude
such
and
such
Ecclesiasticall
Affairs
,
within
such
a
limited
bound
,
ex
suâ
potestate
,
i●
a
forrain
Presbytery
;
higher
,
and
higher
then
that
,
and
higher
then
the
highest
of
either
the
former
;
this
doth
not
diversi
ficare
speciem
,
they
have
all
one
common
nature
,
and
therefore
to
make
one
of
them
fall
,
will
pull
down
all
the
rest
.
SECT
.
XXI
.
NOw
this
being
the
nature
of
the
thing
to
be
proved
;
our
next
work
wil
be
,
to
enquire
the
Scriptures
this
is
builded
upon
,
which
I
finde
to
be
these
following
,
Act.
1.15.23
,
&c.
The
eleven
Apostles
here
meet
together
,
and
these
as
a
supreme
body
over
all
others
,
convene
the
Church
at
Jerusalem
,
dictate
what
and
how
to
be
done
,
in
that
case
of
loss
upon
the
Church
,
which
shewes
that
there
is
a
forrain
authoritative
Eldership
over
particular
Churches
.
SECT
.
XXII
.
Sol
.
TO
this
,
somthing
is
to
be
answered
in
general
:
that
the
station
of
the
apostles
was
extraordinary
,
it
being
the
formality
of
their
Office
,
to
take
care
of
all
the
Churches
,
2.
Cor
.
11.28
.
—
that
which
cometh
upon
me
daily
,
the
care
of
all
the
Churches
:
Being
therefore
by
their
Place
,
Elders
in
all
Churches
,
might
and
did
interpose
their
powers
in
severall
particular
Churches
,
where
they
came
,
and
exprest
their
judgement
by
counsell
and
vote
,
as
occasion
required
:
and
therefore
what
they
did
modo
extraordinario
,
is
not
competent
to
be
exemplary
:
extraordinary
practices
,
are
not
fit
matters
to
make
up
ordinary
presidents
,
as
certain
,
and
standing
,
and
indubitable
copies
for
posterity
to
write
after
:
we
must
take
only
what
is
ordin●ry
,
when
we
would
make
ordinary
paterns
to
regulate
our
proceedings
by
.
SECT
.
XXIII
.
SEcondly
,
I
would
answer
thus
:
Peter
in
this
matter
fore-mentioned
,
leads
the
action
,
opens
the
cause
of
their
coming
together
,
and
the
mind
of
God
,
and
how
the
action
should
be
ordered
:
the
whole
Assembly
by
mutuall
consent
,
present
two
to
choise
,
and
commend
the
determination
of
the
businesse
to
God
,
by
prayer
,
and
so
cast
lots
;
and
what
in
all
this
,
that
shewes
such
an
Eldership
as
is
before-mentioned
,
and
as
now
rules
in
Presbyteriall
Churches
?
True
it
is
,
that
the
eleven
Apostles
were
here
together
,
because
they
were
commanded
by
Christ
to
abide
in
Jerusalem
,
untill
they
were
endowed
with
the
Spirit
from
above
.
But
there
was
nothing
here
done
,
but
any
one
of
them
might
have
done
it
.
And
as
for
the
concurring
Elders
of
other
Churches
,
they
could
not
have
this
,
being
the
first
and
onely
Gospel-Church
extant
.
T
is
true
,
this
whole
Church
concurred
and
accepted
him
upon
whom
the
lot
fell
:
but
here
was
no
joynt
voices
and
suffrages
of
Pastors
,
and
Elders
,
and
chosen
Brethren
of
many
Congregations
,
which
is
the
thing
to
be
proved
,
to
give
forrain
Eldership
footing
in
this
place
;
that
they
should
be
a
combination
of
appropriate
Elders
to
severall
particular
Churches
,
which
these
were
not
,
but
generall
Officers
.
SECT
.
XXIV
.
ANother
Scripture
cited
for
the
authority
of
a
forrain
Eldership
is
,
Act.
4.35
.
For
as
many
as
were
possessors
of
lands
,
&c.
sold
them
,
and
brought
the
price
,
and
laid
it
down
at
the
Apostles
feet
,
&c.
This
the
Apostles
of
themselves
disposed
,
&c.
SECT
.
XXV
.
Ans.
HOw
this
place
wil●
maintain
a
forrain
coercive
Eldership
,
I
do
not
yet
understand
.
For
the
Apostles
though
they
had
a
capacity
over
many
Churches
,
yet
then
there
were
not
many
when
this
was
done
;
and
this
capacity
was
as
they
were
Apostles
,
not
as
they
were
ordinary
Elders
:
and
in
this
matter
did
an
extraordinary
thing
,
because
the
officers
fit
for
this
work
,
were
not
yet
ordained
.
But
in
all
this
,
where
are
joynt
voices
and
suffrages
of
Officers
,
Elders
and
Brethren
of
diverse
particular
Churches
,
commissioned
to
this
work
,
which
makes
up
this
forrain
Presbytery
we
speak
of
?
The
like
may
be
said
to
Act.
6.3
,
4
,
5.
about
the
choosing
of
Deacons
and
their
ordination
:
the
Apostles
as
extraordinary
persons
laid
hands
on
these
,
but
what
appears
from
hence
of
such
an
Eldership
,
excerped
and
commissioned
from
severall
Churches
,
as
now
Presbyterians
assert
and
use
,
is
yet
to
find
.
This
may
likewise
answer
that
Act.
20.28
.
who
are
there
shewed
not
to
be
Elders
of
many
Churches
which
Paul
sent
for
,
but
the
Elders
of
the
Church
,
v.
17.
to
wit
,
of
one
Church
,
of
the
Church
of
Ephesus
,
and
charging
them
to
attend
to
the
flock
,
not
flocks
,
v.
28.
Here
is
no
joynt
voice
of
various
commissioned
Elders
,
&c.
SECT
.
XXVI
.
TWo
places
most
of
weight
are
,
Acts
15.28
.
It
seemed
good
to
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
to
us
,
to
lay
upon
you
no
greater
burden
then
these
necessary
things
,
that
ye
abstain
from
meat
offered
to
idols
,
and
from
blood
,
and
from
things
strangled
,
and
from
fornication
,
from
which
if
ye
keep
your selves
,
ye
do
well
.
SECT
.
XXVII
.
Sol
.
HEre
is
an
Eldership
of
severall
Churches
(
indeed
)
met
;
but
as
touching
the
coertion
of
their
power
,
as
such
an
excerped
Eldership
enforcing
their
results
upon
other
Churches
;
this
is
the
other
thing
to
be
brought
in
,
to
make
up
the
business
we
dispute
against
,
and
therefore
this
is
that
we
must
here
enquire
into
.
And
that
we
may
be
clear
and
full
in
answer
to
this
place
,
this
must
first
be
premised
;
That
,
though
it
be
true
,
that
the
Apostles
as
such
,
were
extraordinary
Officers
,
yet
that
in
this
act
and
meeting
,
they
did
not
thus
move
;
my
reason
is
this
,
because
in
the
power
of
extraordinary
assistance
,
and
under
the
spirit
of
infallible
help
,
Officers
do
not
,
nor
need
not
,
joyn
ordinary
Churches
and
Officers
(
as
here
was
)
in
their
consultations
and
enquiries
:
officers
and
brethren
,
here
disputed
,
enquired
,
each
man
had
allowed
liberty
,
to
propound
his
doubts
,
urged
the
Scriptures
,
Act.
15.7
,
8
,
to
18.
So
that
what
was
practised
and
issued
here
,
was
imitable
,
and
left
as
a
Samplar
to
all
succeeding
Generations
,
how
to
seek
out
the
truth
in
difficult
matters
.
SECT
.
XXVIII
.
FRom
hence
therefore
this
may
be
collected
,
that
the
sentence
,
burden
,
or
decree
which
was
issued
from
this
meeting
,
was
not
therefore
Scripture
or
Canonicall
and
binding
,
because
they
decreed
it
,
as
it
still
was
,
when
the
Apostles
moved
by
the
proper
spirit
of
their
Apostolicall
station
,
according
to
that
2
Pet
.
1.21
.
Holy
men
of
God
,
spake
as
they
were
moved
by
the
holy
Ghost
.
But
what
they
decreed
,
was
by
debate
found
out
,
to
be
expresse
in
the
Scripture
,
or
undeniably
deducted
from
thence
,
and
so
by
one
of
these
wayes
was
found
to
be
Scripture
,
and
was
therefore
decreed
and
enjoyned
by
them
upon
others
,
as
the
industry
of
these
worthies
in
those
decrees
,
gave
their
own
evidence
.
And
thus
do
worthy
men
judge
,
is
that
phrase
to
be
understood
.
It
seemed
good
to
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
to
us
,
v.
28.
By
the
Holy
Ghost
then
must
be
either
understood
,
the
immediate
Revelation
of
the
Spirit
,
parallel
to
that
of
2
Pet
.
1.21
.
and
this
the
Text
admits
not
;
for
there
was
no
extraordinary
Revelation
,
that
can
in
reason
be
attributed
,
or
conceived
to
belong
to
the
ordinary
multitude
.
Or
else
it
must
be
the
Holy
Ghost
,
as
speaking
in
the
Word
,
which
latter
is
most
manifest
to
be
the
meaning
,
because
things
resulted
by
them
,
follow
by
infallible
inference
from
the
Scriptures
as
the
Will
of
the
Lord
,
and
other
by
expresse
Text
,
as
that
of
fornication
.
That
in
indifferent
things
,
whilst
other
scruple
them
,
we
should
t●ke
heed
of
offending
them
;
and
in
that
which
is
expresly
wicked
,
that
under
such
a
notion
and
bond
,
we
should
shun
them
:
so
that
what
they
produced
by
debate
and
by
this
power
was
materially
binding
,
forasmuch
as
what
they
produced
,
was
for
the
Matter
of
it
no
other
,
but
the
Will
of
God
,
but
not
formally
,
(
i
.
)
as
the
result
of
such
a
collegiat
coercive
Eldership
.
SECT
.
XXIX
.
Ob.
HAd
then
this
Synod
no
Authoritative
power
at
all
?
To
what
end
then
is
this
ordinance
?
SECT
.
XXX
.
Sol
.
A
Forrain
Eldership
rightly
constituted
,
hath
peculiar
Authority
,
(
i
.
)
a
power
of
preheminent
and
prevailing
counsell
,
though
not
a
power
of
jurisdiction
,
to
constrain
their
results
,
to
be
practised
;
or
to
censure
Ecclesiastically
,
in
case
persons
who
have
the
result
of
things
produced
by
them
,
do
not
follow
them
.
They
have
as
an
Ordinance
of
God
,
a
power
of
preheminent
and
prevailing
counsell
:
That
is
,
what
result
in
difficult
matters
this
body
makes
,
ought
to
be
preferred
and
prevail
more
upon
our
hearts
,
then
what
interpretation
other
single
persons
,
and
ordinary
helps
,
ordinarily
afford
.
SECT
.
XXXI
.
THat
this
sojourning
Eldership
,
did
onely
exercise
a
power
of
counsell
,
and
not
a
power
of
jurisdiction
,
appears
by
these
circumstances
.
First
,
these
decrees
are
said
to
binde
those
to
whom
they
are
sent
;
And
't
is
evident
,
they
were
sent
to
all
the
Churches
of
the
Gentiles
,
Act.
21.25
.
As
touching
the
Gentiles
which
believe
,
we
have
written
and
concluded
,
that
they
observe
no
such
thing
,
save
onely
that
they
keep
themselves
from
things
offered
to
idols
,
and
from
bloud
and
from
strangled
,
&
from
fornication
.
Now
these
had
no
commiss
.
nor
else
of
that
kind
delegated
to
that
Synod
,
and
therefore
what
they
did
there
,
could
not
binde
them
by
way
of
any
authoritative
jurisdiction
:
where
then
is
no
delegation
of
messenger
,
by
mutuall
consent
,
there
is
no
right
of
jurisdiction
.
Now
not
binding
by
jurisdiction
,
it
must
needs
be
,
that
they
did
bind
these
Gentiles
by
way
of
such
preheminent
counsel
,
&
as
such
things
which
in
themselves
were
clearly
held
out
to
be
Gods
minde
and
will
:
that
here
they
did
acquiesce
,
and
did
not
further
meddle
with
any
juridicall
processe
upon
them
,
appears
by
those
pacifick
words
,
which
would
they
were
written
not
with
ink
and
pen
,
but
with
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
upon
all
Prerbyters
hearts
,
who
are
so
turbulent
in
these
times
—
From
which
if
you
keep
your selves
,
ye
shal
do
well
.
Fare
ye
well
.
SECT
-
XXXII
.
2.
SEcondly
,
that
this
sojourning
Eldership
did
exercise
onely
a
power
of
Counsell
,
is
evident
by
this
further
circumstance
of
reason
;
the
controversie
being
onely
between
the
Parties
which
met
in
the
same
counsel
;
For
t
is
said
that
they
which
were
for
Circumcision
so
hotly
,
came
down
from
Judea
,
and
it
may
be
were
some
that
did
apostatize
,
and
fall
to
serve
the
times
,
to
judaize
as
Peter
did
at
this
same
Church
of
Antioch
,
Gal.
2.11
.
But
Peter
when
he
was
come
to
Antioch
,
I
withstood
him
to
the
face
,
because
he
was
to
be
blamed
,
&c.
But
it
is
evident
that
one
side
in
the
counsel
was
a
party
,
to
wit
,
them
of
Antioch
;
Now
for
this
Church
,
which
was
a
party
,
and
contested
against
their
opposites
in
a
fair
way
,
to
be
judge
in
their
own
cause
,
and
to
be
juridical
upon
their
antagonists
by
their
own
power
,
cannot
equitably
nor
conscionably
be
imagined
.
SECT
.
XXXIII
.
ANother
place
of
much
account
to
this
purpose
,
and
frequently
urged
by
our
Brethren
is
,
1
Tim
.
4.14
.
Neglect
not
the
gift
which
is
in
thee
,
which
was
given
thee
by
prophesie
,
with
the
laying
on
of
the
hands
of
the
Presbytery
.
Here
seems
to
be
two
things
,
a
sojourning
Eldership
,
or
a
collegiat
Church
,
which
did
ordain
Timothy
,
and
so
a
sole
power
and
an
exempted
authority
from
the
people
,
by
which
this
great
act
was
done
,
both
which
indeed
,
if
they
did
clearly
appear
from
this
place
,
much
of
our
Brethrens
work
were
done
in
a
little
compasse
.
But
as
to
this
place
,
I
have
spoken
before
something
in
handl●ng
the
first
Assertion
.
Here
I
may
repeat
and
adde
a
little
.
This
Eldership
or
Presbytery
here
mentioned
could
not
be
an
ordinary
Eldership
,
such
as
consisted
of
ordinary
Pastors
&
Teachers
,
and
brethren
commissioned
from
severall
particular
Churches
:
My
ground
I
have
before
given
,
because
an
ordinary
Eldership
cannot
institute
an
extraordinary
officer
,
as
Timothy
was
,
to
wit
an
Evangelist
;
and
then
not
being
an
ordinary
Eldership
,
but
an
Eldership
onely
of
extraordinary
officers
,
not
precisely
from
such
and
such
particular
Churches
,
but
such
as
were
equally
of
all
,
as
of
any
one
,
't
will
not
amount
to
the
nature
of
a
Patern
and
binding
president
to
build
upon
.
SECT
.
XXXIV
.
HAving
thus
pursued
the
first
medium
,
I
come
now
to
the
next
.
That
a
coercive
Eldership
,
out
of
the
particular
Congregation
,
is
a
device
of
man
,
for
it
opposes
the
Word
.
For
the
Scriptures
give
in
their
Testimony
,
nor
one
or
two
,
though
these
were
enough
,
but
in
plenty
,
that
what
power
of
ruling
jurisdiction
,
potestate
judicii
,
donationis
,
or
the
like
,
an
Eldership
hath
,
it
hath
it
in
the
same
extent
it
hath
its
Pastorall
power
,
and
no
further
;
Yea
,
that
an
officers
Pastorall
power
,
exceeds
in
extent
his
ruling
power
,
rather
then
his
ruling
power
exceeds
his
Pastorall
power
in
latitude
.
To
extend
a
Pastors
power
of
ordinary
ruling
,
beyond
the
extent
of
his
ordinary
teaching
,
is
against
the
order
which
Christ
hath
set
,
and
so
against
the
Scripture
,
and
so
consequently
a
sojourning
ruling
Eldership
,
doth
oppose
the
Word
:
That
the
extent
of
Church
Officers
power
to
rule
is
no
further
then
the
extent
of
his
place
,
to
feed
,
instruct
,
and
diffuse
knowledge
and
Doctrine
,
appears
by
these
Scriptures
.
Act.
20.28
.
Take
heed
to
your selves
,
and
to
all
the
flock
●ver
which
the
Holy
Ghost
hath
made
you
over-seers
,
to
feed
the
flock
of
God
,
which
he
hath
purchased
with
his
own
bloud
.
There
were
many
officers
belonging
to
this
Church
of
Ephesus
,
some
(
no
doubt
)
of
one
kind
,
some
of
another
,
but
't
is
manifest
here
,
they
were
but
one
flock
:
And
the
limite
of
these
is
observable
,
and
how
,
and
by
what
squared
,
to
over-see
,
and
{αβγδ}
where
they
did
feed
;
he
joyns
these
two
together
,
and
commensurates
one
by
the
other
;
where
men
standingly
and
fixedly
feed
,
and
have
that
limited
Call
and
work
upon
them
,
there
they
are
to
over-see
,
use
inspection
,
power
,
rule
,
as
need
requires
.
SECT
.
XXXV
.
TO
this
agreeth
1
Pet
.
5.2
.
The
Elders
which
are
among
you
I
exhort
who
am
also
an
[
Elder
]
feed
the
flock
of
God
which
is
among
you
,
taking
the
oversight
thereof
,
not
by
constraint
,
but
willingly
,
&c.
1
Pet
.
5.2
.
Two
things
I
would
note
here
,
that
the
Apostles
,
were
also
Elders
,
were
likewise
as
extraordinary
Officers
;
and
so
had
the
capacity
of
ordinary
Elders
,
&
could
manage
such
a
capacity
,
aswel
as
the
other
,
as
they
did
in
that
counsell
at
Jerusalem
.
Secondly
,
that
feeding
,
hath
limitation
—
Feed
the
flock
of
God
which
is
among
you
,
{αβγδ}
that
is
,
that
flock
particularly
to
which
any
of
them
had
particu●●r
relation
;
Peter
here
writing
to
the
Churches
in
severall
nations
,
the
charge
is
to
the
particular
officers
belonging
to
these
particular
Churches
:
like
to
that
Col.
1.17
.
Who
is
for
you
a
faithfull
minister
,
&c.
That
is
,
your
proper
Pastor
.
Now
each
Officer
were
to
feed
their
respective
flocks
,
this
was
the
limite
of
their
charge
,
and
this
made
to
commensurate
their
ruling
power
,
therefore
addes
—
taking
the
oversight
thereof
,
&
c
.
{αβγδ}
&c
.
The
flock
that
was
to
them
particularly
limited
for
each
to
feed
,
this
and
none
else
was
their
charge
,
to
rule
and
order
.
To
this
also
agreeth
Heb
.
13.7
.
Remember
them
which
have
the
rule
over
you
,
and
have
spoken
to
you
the
word
of
God
,
for
they
watch
for
your
souls
,
&c.
so
that
the
power
of
ruling
goes
no
further
then
the
bound
of
duty
to
feed
:
where
we
are
chosen
and
fixed
to
feed
,
to
speak
the
word
of
God
,
there
are
we
to
rule
and
exert
juridicall
p●wer
,
the
use
of
the
Keyes
in
each
part
thereof
.
SECT
.
XXXVI
.
Ob.
IT
may
be
said
,
Elders
may
preach
in
this
Church
,
and
that
;
in
many
particular
Churches
:
therefore
they
may
according
to
this
you
have
said
,
rule
over
many
particular
Churches
.
SECT
.
XXXVII
.
Sol
.
TIs
not
occasionall
preaching
,
which
one
Church
by
consent
and
desire
may
admit
to
another
,
that
the
Scriptures
fore-mentioned
,
mean
and
make
the
bound
of
rule
;
but
where
mens
fixed
call
and
work
properly
lyes
;
to
what
flock
I
am
called
to
preach
and
feed
;
this
bounds
,
and
commensurates
,
and
proportions
my
power
,
as
an
Officer
to
rule
,
and
to
go
beyond
this
,
is
to
go
beyond
the
word
,
to
go
against
this
,
is
to
oppose
the
word
.
And
the
spirit
of
God
,
fore-seeing
such
cavils
would
be
made
;
therefore
else-where
warily
saith
,
Know
them
that
labour
among
you
,
and
are
over
you
in
the
Lord
,
and
admonish
you
,
1.
Thess.
5.12
.
{αβγδ}
praesidentes
,
proeuntes
,
going
before
,
as
Military
Commanders
are
commissioned
over
such
,
and
are
to
go
before
them
,
and
discipline
them
.
So
that
t
is
not
bare
labouring
in
the
Word
in
a
place
,
which
notes
an
Elder
;
but
being
over
them
,
fixed
and
commissioned
to
such
a
station
over
them
,
and
then
where
this
is
pitched
and
bounded
,
this
bounds
his
work
of
conduct
and
discipline
:
for
those
he
is
over
in
the
use
of
one
Key
,
those
he
is
over
in
the
use
of
another
:
this
bundle
of
Keyes
is
not
divided
,
though
distinguished
:
they
who
are
over
to
instruct
,
these
are
over
to
second
this
instruction
,
and
none
else
;
and
these
,
no
where
else
over
,
but
under
to
wit
,
at
the
feet
of
all
the
Churches
of
Christ
,
in
love
to
serve
them
.
Remember
them
that
labour
among
you
,
and
are
over
you
,
that
is
,
in
word
and
doctrine
,
1.
Tim
.
1.17
.
So
he
expounds
it
.
The
Elders
which
rule
well
,
which
labour
in
word
and
doctrine
.
In
these
places
,
fixed
preaching
,
and
fixed
ruling
go
together
;
and
to
part
these
,
to
rule
where
we
are
not
fixed
and
called
to
preach
,
is
to
divide
the
bunch
of
Keyes
which
Christ
hath
joyned
and
tyed
together
,
which
how
well
C●rist
wil
take
that
,
or
how
well
men
will
use
that
,
several
hundred
of
years
in
blood
and
tyranny
,
hath
shewed
us
.
SECT
.
XXXVIII
.
3.
THirdly
,
a
sojourning
coercive
Eldership
,
is
surely
a
device
of
man
,
&
no
instituted
ordinance
of
God
,
because
it
eludes
that
end
,
to
which
it
would
seem
to
pretend
,
which
kind
of
medium's
God
doth
not
make
,
unless
we
should
charge
him
with
ignorance
and
folly
,
which
were
blasphemie
to
do
:
What
instruments
and
ordinances
he
makes
and
consecrates
to
any
end
,
they
are
adequate
and
exquisite
to
produce
it
.
That
which
forrain
Elderships
pretend
to
(
in
their
several
ranks
of
subordination
and
preordination
,
one
lower
or
higher
then
another
)
is
,
an
effectuall
remedy
of
offence
,
that
nothing
may
be
undone
,
or
ill
done
,
as
to
the
relief
of
any
ones
complaint
,
or
as
to
the
appointing
of
any
one
his
right
,
or
any
society
their
right
,
&c.
But
now
these
sojourning
Elderships
,
whilst
thus
pretending
and
giving
out
to
the
World
,
do
like
the
Lapwing
,
draw
off
Travellers
from
their
Nest
,
and
from
their
young
:
my
meaning
is
,
from
looking
into
their
nakednesse
:
it
takes
off
people
from
looking
after
that
which
indeed
fits
,
and
upon
Scripture-grounds
may
warrant
means
unto
such
ends
.
To
say
,
that
we
have
so
many
Learned
men
in
our
Synods
,
and
Generall
Assemblies
,
and
Church-Commissions
,
which
are
more
able
to
search
into
things
,
and
to
judge
of
things
,
then
a
private
Eldership
of
a
Congregation
is
,
to
hold
out
mans
wisedome
to
people
,
and
an
arm
of
flesh
,
which
much
takes
poor
people
,
yea
,
and
much
prevails
upon
flesh
and
blood
,
with
others
of
greater
parts
,
and
so
indeed
is
a
gaudy
Snare
.
Let
Ministers
,
Doctors
,
Lords
,
who
will
,
be
in
a
sojourning
Eldership
,
men
of
never
so
much
learning
,
yet
the
Eldership
of
the
Congregation
,
is
like
in
reason
,
to
be
more
learned
in
the
busines
of
their
particular
Members
which
offend
,
then
strangers
,
because
they
are
eye
witnesses
of
persons
and
things
,
and
have
by
i●timate
conversation
,
advantage
to
judge
of
men
,
and
matters
concerning
them
,
more
then
others
who
●re
altogether
strangers
,
and
have
nothing
but
at
second
hand
.
SECT
.
XXXIX
.
BUt
secondly
,
t
is
good
to
enquire
wisely
into
this
matter
,
as
Solom
.
saith
,
What
is
an
institution
of
God
,
unto
such
an
end
;
If
the
power
at
home
in
the
particular
Congregation
,
be
the
institution
of
God
for
its
own
affairs
,
this
shall
discern
better
,
and
judge
better
,
and
heal
better
,
then
all
the
Learned
Assemblyes
in
the
World
,
which
people
litle
look
after
,
whilst
this
great
noise
is
made
,
with
men
of
so
great
parts
and
worth
,
which
sojourning
Presbyteries
assemble
withal
.
Thirdly
,
in
the
nature
of
the
thing
,
t
is
a
course
which
cast
those
which
subject
to
it
,
upon
a
multiplication
of
appeals
,
and
references
forth
and
back
;
from
the
Session
to
the
Synod
,
from
the
Synod
to
the
Generall
Assembly
;
and
when
the
poor
Traveller
is
there
,
he
is
turned
over
to
the
Commission
of
the
Kirk
,
and
when
come
there
,
turned
back
again
,
may
be
,
to
the
General
Assembly
;
and
whether
this
looks
like
Scripture
ordinance
,
or
like
the
thing
it
pretends
to
,
an
effectuall
removall
of
burden
and
offence
,
whilst
it
thus
worryes
poor
people
up
and
down
,
let
Christians
judge
:
This
is
nequid
detrimenti
capiant
capita
Ecclesiae
:
the
truth
is
,
this
whole
frame
and
series
,
looks
more
like
to
entangle
and
perplexe
poor
creatures
,
then
effectually
to
extricat
and
issue
their
distresse
,
and
it
may
be
the
cryes
of
this
and
such
like
,
is
come
up
into
the
ears
of
the
Lord
,
and
ah
alas
,
that
good
men
should
yet
be
deaf
!
SECT
.
XL
.
FInally
,
because
the
particular
Church
is
compleat
without
them
:
for
God
would
not
appoint
uselesse
things
.
Every
particular
Congregation
rightly
constituted
and
compleated
hath
sufficiencie
within
it self
,
to
exercise
all
the
ordinances
of
Christ
;
to
ordain
,
to
excommunicate
,
without
forrain
Elderships
of
what
degree
soever
.
It
is
granted
by
our
Bretheren
,
that
such
a
Church
hath
this
sufficiency
in
the
exercising
of
some
ordinances
,
as
to
preach
,
to
dispense
the
Sacrament
▪
without
seeking
the
consent
or
help
of
the
Classes
:
nor
were
the
Church
to
neglect
these
,
if
the
Classes
should
forbid
her
to
do
these
.
Now
from
themselves
we
argue
,
that
if
this
Church
thus
constituted
,
have
a
power
to
the
greater
,
surely
to
the
lesser
.
The
apostle
knew
no
dispensation
of
so
choise
an
excellency
as
Preaching
,
which
he
prefers
before
any
other
;
I
was
sent
to
preach
the
Gospel
,
not
to
baptize
;
that
was
the
chief
part
of
his
erra●d
if
Ordination
or
Excommunication
had
bin
of
so
great
eminencie
above
all
other
,
surely
he
would
have
mentioned
some
one
of
them
.
SECT
.
XLI
.
BUt
beside
this
,
thus
it
might
be
further
said
,
that
the
Keys
are
not
divided
.
The
Keys
are
all
given
to
Peter
,
as
personating
the
Church
of
Believers
in
the
Gospel
,
that
Kingdom
which
Christ
said
he
would
build
:
And
I
will
give
unto
[
thee
]
the
keyes
of
the
kingdom
of
heaven
,
and
whatsoever
[
thou
]
shalt
bind
on
earth
&c.
Mat
.
16.19
.
Surely
this
particular
here
used
,
is
not
in
vain
,
but
to
set
forth
that
every
Gospel-Church
,
every
particular
Congregation
of
Believers
,
united
as
a
visible
organicall
body
,
for
Gods
worship
,
have
ability
&
power
given
to
it
,
as
to
such
a
great
end
;
they
have
not
a
lame
Commission
,
part
of
the
Keyes
at
their
girdle
,
and
strangers
and
forrainers
carrying
the
other
part
.
And
for
the
Key
of
Excommunication
,
which
is
so
much
denyed
to
the
particular
Congregation
,
the
Church
of
Corinth
is
blamed
by
the
Apostle
,
that
they
did
not
this
of
themselves
without
him
,
and
his
urging
of
them
,
much
more
without
a
collegiate
Church-sentence
sent
them
.
SECT
.
XLII
.
Ob.
AGain
,
this
may
be
added
,
if
it
be
said
,
they
be
fit
to
preach
and
administer
Seals
,
but
not
to
ordain
or
excommunicate
,
because
the
particular
Churches
cannot
make
up
a
sufficient
Eldership
.
SECT
.
XLIII
.
Sol
.
IT
Would
be
asked
here
,
what
makes
up
a
sufficient
Eldership
?
Our
brethren
say
,
A
Presbyterie
consists
of
Pastors
and
Teachers
,
and
such
other
officers
as
the
Word
mentions
,
to
be
help●
in
government
:
now
,
all
these
may
be
in
a
particular
Congregation
.
Though
the
kind
be
mentioned
in
Scripture
,
yet
the
number
how
many
of
this
kind
,
is
not
mentioned
and
limited
by
the
Word
.
If
two
or
three
,
or
if
four
or
five
Elders
,
or
more
be
needful
,
to
make
up
an
Eldership
sufficient
,
a
particular
congregation
may
have
and
yeeld
so
many
upon
any
occasion
:
and
a
forrain
Presbyterie
,
an
Eldership
over
many
Congregations
,
is
acknowledged
by
our
Brethren
to
be
sufficient
,
though
it
consists
of
no
more
:
now
if
they
be
a
sufficient
Presbyterie
,
and
have
the
compleat
power
of
such
a
State
,
why
not
the
like
kind
of
officers
,
and
the
like
quantity
for
number
,
in
the
other
?
Have
the
Eldership
that
is
over
many
Churches
,
the
sufficiencie
of
their
State
from
hence
,
that
they
are
over
many
Congregations
?
In
the
particular
Congregation
,
there
are
such
kinde
of
Elders
,
and
so
many
Elders
,
and
all
having
relation
to
one
Church
:
And
the
argument
used
on
the
other
hand
,
is
the
same
:
that
it
must
be
an
Eldership
,
which
though
●t
consists
of
many
Congregations
,
yet
makes
up
but
one
Church
.
SECT
.
XLIV
.
SEcondly
,
it
may
be
thus
said
,
If
one
particular
Congregation
so
constituted
,
as
is
before
mentioned
,
be
not
sufficient
to
exercise
the
full
power
of
the
Keyes
,
without
a
forrain
Eldership
,
then
the
first
Church
,
to
wit
,
that
of
Jerusalem
,
was
lame
in
its
power
,
t●ll
others
were
erected
;
and
Antioch
lame
in
its
power
,
because
but
one
Church
in
association
with
it
,
and
answerably
they
made
lame
work
.
And
other
Congregations
which
were
scattered
up
and
down
in
Pontus
,
Capadocia
,
&c.
which
in
all
likelyhood
by
distance
of
place
,
and
by
violence
of
Heathens
,
were
in
an
utter
incapacity
to
any
standing
,
extrinsecall
Elderships
and
associations
,
looking
every
hour
for
the
fierie
tryall
,
as
they
did
,
that
all
these
were
lame
,
and
could
not
supply
the
mortality
of
their
publick
Ministers
and
Officers
,
and
so
consequently
must
needs
sink
,
from
a
defect
intrinsecall
,
and
in
their
make
and
constitution
,
being
not
able
without
a
forrain
power
,
to
relieve
themselves
in
the
mainest
things
.
And
to
say
,
that
in
extraordinary
cases
,
unordinary
things
may
be
done
,
is
little
to
the
satisfaction
of
a
tender
heart
,
especially
in
divine
things
,
who
is
apt
to
beleive
,
that
God
hath
so
shaped
his
publick
Ordinances
,
which
are
injoyned
,
to
be
used
in
all
places
,
that
places
shall
not
be
a
standing
let
,
to
put
his
people
continually
to
run
beside
the
instituted
ordinary
and
expresse
rule
.
SECT
.
XLV
.
THirdly
,
it
is
confessed
by
our
Brethren
,
that
the
Judicatures
of
Classes
and
Congregations
,
do
not
differ
formally
or
specifically
.
Then
if
they
differ
but
only
in
extension
,
then
the
intrinsecall
power
of
the
Elders
of
the
Congregation
,
is
the
same
with
the
Elder
of
Classes
:
and
then
there
is
no
specificall
act
that
the
one
puts
forth
,
but
the
other
can
put
forth
too
,
as
occasion
shall
require
,
for
degree
doth
not
vary
the
kind
;
therefore
they
can
ordain
or
excommunicate
,
as
well
as
the
collegiate
Church
,
and
so
is
the
Congregationall
Church
compleat
,
if
the
Classicall
Church
be
.
SECT
.
XLVI
.
FInally
,
if
the
particular
Church
had
not
been
compl●at
to
do
its
own
work
,
without
a
forra●n
Elde●ship
,
the
Apostles
would
have
mentioned
some
thing
of
this
forrain
combinding
of
Elderships
,
to
ordain
,
and
have
counseled
the
lame
,
to
lend
each
other
a
leg
;
and
when
this
might
be
had
,
surely
the
Church
of
Christ
durst
not
neglect
the
use
of
it
;
and
yet
we
finde
not
the
one
,
and
we
do
finde
the
other
:
Churches
in
severall
Regions
,
yet
not
making
any
such
Regiments
one
over
another
.
The
Apostle
Paul
when
he
took
his
leave
of
the
Church
of
Ephesus
,
commends
it
not
to
forrain
associate
Elders
,
but
both
Elders
and
people
as
one
flock
,
to
the
grace
of
God
,
Act.
20.32
.
as
leaving
it
sufficiently
endowed
,
to
perpetuate
succession
in
all
good
,
to
ordain
other
Officers
if
any
should
die
,
and
so
build
them
up
to
eternall
life
.
SECT
.
XLVII
.
Some
Objections
against
the
things
before
handled
.
Ob.
YOu
seem
to
be
for
Separation
,
from
a
Presbyteriall
Church
:
we
finde
no
example
of
separation
,
but
in
case
of
Idolatry
.
SECT
.
XLVIII
.
Sol
.
IDolatry
hath
had
several
shapes
according
as
the
light
hath
broken
out
in
every
Age
,
in
severall
degrees
:
The
Idolatry
of
the
Heathen
in
darker
times
;
as
Dagon
that
fish
and
flesh
God
.
The
Idolatry
of
Christians
,
as
a
supreme
Bishop
,
over
all
Churches
:
and
then
a
supreme
Bishop
,
or
Arch
Bishop
over
the
Churches
in
such
a
Nation
:
and
then
because
this
found
out
as
Papall
too
such
a
combination
of
B●shops
,
over
the
Churches
in
such
a
Nation
:
So
that
that
command
which
is
given
2.
Cor
.
6.17
.
come
out
from
o●e
kind
of
Idolatry
,
is
Gods
command
to
come
out
from
all
:
or
else
that
rule
bindes
onely
,
to
separate
from
Heathenish
Idolatry
.
What
is
not
warranted
by
the
Word
,
is
an
Idol
,
let
present
times
,
and
abused
affections
,
call
it
what
they
will
:
and
though
God
be
mercifull
to
our
simplicity
,
whilst
we
are
ignorant
and
mis-call
things
,
yet
when
things
are
revealed
,
t
is
dangerous
to
call
them
,
and
maintain
them
,
as
we
please
.
SECT
.
XLIX
.
Ob.
BUt
we
have
had
many
converted
,
under
the
Presbyterian
Government
,
doth
not
this
seal
it
to
be
of
God
?
SECT
.
L.
Sol
.
SO
there
was
under
Episcopall
Government
,
yet
Presbyterians
gave
witnesse
to
that
,
not
to
be
of
God
.
God
blessed
the
preaching
of
his
Word
then
by
simple
hearts
,
which
is
his
ordinance
,
and
so
he
hath
under
Presbyterians
;
but
this
must
speak
in
suâ
latitudine
,
as
a
seal
of
it self
,
as
an
ordinance
,
but
not
of
all
mingled
with
it
.
SECT
.
LI
.
Ob.
BUt
many
godly
being
in
the
Presbyterian
way
,
is
it
not
more
proper
to
purge
,
then
to
pull
down
all
;
to
make
use
of
the
root
,
and
not
up
with
root
and
branch
.
SECT
.
LII
.
Sol
.
TWas
just
so
objected
by
the
godly
in
England
,
when
Presbyterians
would
have
down
our
Episcopall
Church
.
In
England
many
of
the
godly
,
yea
several
Parliament
men
,
were
for
purging
,
and
circumcising
,
but
by
no
means
could
they
hear
of
plucking
up
root
and
branch
,
but
the
controversie
of
the
Lord
meant
,
the
axe
to
the
root
,
and
so
I
humbly
judge
,
doth
the
same
controversie
now
mean
,
which
is
so
wonderfully
brought
about
to
Presbyterie
,
which
makes
me
in
all
simplicity
of
heart
to
give
my
dear
brethren
of
that
judgement
,
a
plain
and
faithfull
warning
.
SECT
.
LIII
.
SEcondly
,
this
I
would
answer
:
purging
doth
suppose
an
encouraging
foundation
to
work
upon
.
If
a
person
be
dead
or
hopelesse
of
life
,
They
return
,
but
not
to
the
most
High
,
Hos
.
7
6.
So
I
doubt
,
will
this
kinde
of
returning
be
,
by
purging
.
we
do
not
talk
of
a
purge
.
Where
the
forme
of
Government
,
or
the
matter
of
Government
is
right
,
some
thing
of
purging
may
do
the
work
.
As
if
all
be
Saints
indeed
,
as
far
as
man
can
judge
,
why
then
though
they
joumble
and
disorder
some
acts
of
jurisdiction
,
some
purging
of
Discipline
will
do
it
.
Or
if
the
forme
be
right
,
that
there
be
such
a
particular
company
of
Saints
combined
and
united
,
to
walk
in
all
the
wayes
of
God
together
,
and
to
d●spense
publick
ordinances
for
the
building
up
of
one
another
;
and
this
Church
through
remissednes
let
in
some
that
are
naught
or
severall
fall
into
foul
sins
;
why
,
yet
by
remembring
how
they
received
,
and
by
repenting
,
they
may
by
excommunication
,
and
other
ordinances
purge
themselves
:
But
when
matter
&
form
are
both
corrupt
and
naught
:
for
forme
knit
by
scituation
,
and
by
forrain
forensicall
Elderships
,
and
associations
:
for
matter
,
three
parts
of
four
naught
,
prophane
,
Atheists
,
of
Elders
and
people
both
;
how
can
such
a
state
and
constitution
,
which
hath
not
undè
wherewithal
,
purge
it self
?
The
bad
wil
cast
out
the
good
,
sooner
then
they
wil
condescend
to
cast
out
themselves
,
when
the
power
is
in
their
own
hand
,
as
that
it
must
stil
necessarily
be
,
whilest
the
major
part
by
far
,
in
all
ranks
,
is
the
worst
:
So
that
Church
State
is
in
this
case
,
quite
dead
;
't
is
not
a
man
but
a
carcase
;
not
a
Church
,
but
a
nest
of
unclean
birds
,
a
den
of
theeves
:
Therefore
to
depart
from
the
dead
is
proper
;
But
to
talke
of
purging
the
dead
,
where
there
is
not
a
foundation
to
give
Physick
its
warmth
and
operation
,
is
discourse
full
of
weaknesse
,
if
not
of
unwillingnesse
to
see
and
censure
our
own
shame
:
this
may
seem
rigid
,
but
indeed
I
think
,
God
calls
,
loudly
now
to
his
servants
to
be
plain
,
and
to
trust
the
honour
of
their
candor
and
ingenuity
,
with
him
.
SECT
.
LIV
.
BUt
will
not
my
protest
serve
the
turne
?
If
things
be
corrupt
in
the
Church
,
and
I
protest
against
them
,
may
not
I
go
on
with
that
Church
?
As
for
instance
:
If
they
take
in
corrupt
Members
;
and
admit
corrupt
and
impenitent
communicants
;
and
I
protest
against
these
,
may
not
I
go
on
and
partake
with
these
,
and
yet
be
innocent
,
and
enjoy
as
much
of
Gods
Presence
in
the
ordinances
,
as
if
all
were
holy
and
good
?
For
what
doth
others
wickednesse
in
abuse
of
ordinances
,
prejudice
those
ordinances
to
me
?
SECT
.
LV
.
Sol
.
IF
protesting
were
onely
words
▪
then
such
a
thing
would
do
.
But
to
say
the
precious
should
not
mingle
with
the
vile
,
and
yet
the
man
doth
thus
dayly
&
continually
,
is
not
to
protest
but
to
mock
,
and
dissemble
;
because
here
is
not
a
pure
passiveness
in
this
man
,
as
to
the
going
on
of
that
thing
which
he
protests
against
.
Again
,
in
practical
things
,
t
is
not
so
much
a
mans
word
as
his
practice
,
which
gives
the
dislike
.
If
a
man
of
an
idolatrous
Church
,
should
stand
up
&
protest
against
the
Masse
,
and
yet
still
go
to
Masse
,
I
doubt
how
well
this
would
please
God
,
or
deliver
him
from
guilt
.
Naaman
implicitely
protests
against
the
idolatry
he
had
practised
,
that
he
would
worship
no
God
,
but
the
God
of
Israel
:
and
did
he
continue
to
bow
down
?
Yes
,
saith
some
,
but
he
begs
Pardon
for
it
,
as
fearing
how
't
would
hold
.
But
most
apt
in
our
last
English
Annot
.
The
word
being
rendred
in
the
time
past
:
Pardon
that
I
bowed
my self
in
the
house
of
Rimmon
:
Protesting
is
a
piece
of
revenge
,
which
is
the
vehemence
of
Repentance
,
and
the
clearing
of
ones
self
,
which
how
this
will
accord
with
halting
and
halving
,
is
worthy
of
deep
thoughts
of
heart
:
Can
two
walk
together
except
they
be
agreed
.
And
our
Brethren
,
when
they
protest
against
an
Assembly
,
do
not
submit
to
it
.
SECT
.
LVI
.
Ob.
BUt
d●th
not
Baptisme
give
the
form
of
a
tr●e
Church
:
And
you
say
.
If
the
forme
and
foundation
be
right
,
it
may
be
capable
to
purge
it self
right
:
Now
we
are
all
baptized
.
SECT
.
LVII
.
Sol
.
THat
Baptisme
doth
not
give
the
forme
of
Church
M●mbership
,
is
manifest
by
these
Arguments
:
First
,
because
there
may
be
a
Church
,
and
so
consequently
members
of
a
Church
before
Baptisme
:
Ministers
are
before
Baptisme
,
and
a
Church
is
before
Ministers
,
for
out
of
it
are
they
made
,
and
have
their
Keyes
,
as
hath
been
shewed
;
That
Ministers
are
before
Baptisme
is
evident
,
or
else
Baptisme
may
be
administred
by
such
who
are
not
Officers
,
by
a●y
of
the
Members
,
and
then
what
need
O●ficers
:
A●d
then
a
Church
essentially
,
is
a
Church
compleat
organically
,
and
yet
no
officer
or
organ
in
it
.
Secondly
,
the
Church
was
visible
when
there
was
no
Seal
,
neither
Circumcision
,
nor
Baptisme
,
and
then
how
could
these
constitute
a
Church
?
Besides
how
much
this
gratifies
the
judgement
and
practice
of
Anabaptists
,
any
one
may
see
,
who
constitute
Church
Members
by
Baptisme
,
and
how
much
Presbyterians
are
against
Anabaptists
,
a●l
their
writings
shew
,
and
how
much
they
lay
to
our
charge
for
ushering
in
,
and
countenancing
this
tenent
.
Ob.
BUt
since
this
opinion
prevailed
,
we
see
a
vast
tolleration
of
all
strange
and
damnable
doctrines
.
Sol
.
We
are
willing
to
be
a
terrour
to
evill
works
,
and
as
unwilling
to
be
a
terrour
to
good
.
We
are
not
so
well
skilled
in
d●vine
things
'
,
as
to
tell
what
every
thing
is
in
the
bud
;
we
a●e
pat●ent
more
then
some
would
have
us
,
till
the
bud
blossom
and
bear
,
and
when
we
see
the
fruit
naught
,
upon
all
occasions
,
we
give
our
witness
against
it
,
by
dispute
,
discountenance
,
and
otherwise
as
we
understand
the
Word
to
warrant
us
.
If
Tares
and
Wheat
must
grow
together
in
the
World
,
till
the
end
thereof
,
the
Civill
Magistrate
had
need
to
be
wary
,
how
he
useth
his
Sword
for
a
Weedhook
,
in
maculis
mentis
,
spots
of
the
mind
,
lest
Presbyterie
get
a
by-blow
amongst
the
rest
.
Some
mens
weapon●
to
fight
in
these
quarrels
,
are
to
us
as
Sauls
Armour
was
to
David
,
too
big
and
too
heavy
,
we
cannot
tell
how
to
wield
them
;
and
because
we
take
a
litle
stone
and
a
sling
,
when
others
would
have
us
t●ke
a
halter
and
a
cross
,
do
we
then
give
a
vast
tolleration
?
Not
by
night
nor
by
power
Civ●l
,
out
by
God●
Spirit
in
his
Word
and
othe●
Ordinances
we
fi●ht
●n
these
q
arrels
,
which
weapon
,
though
●ot
so
terrible
to
look
upon
,
as
the
temporall
Sword
,
y●t
are
mighty
through
God
to
cast
dow●
strong
imaginations
of
vain
men
:
Order
yet
is
but
making
to
in
Church
a●d
State
,
and
therefore
things
are
yet
but
disorderly
in
this
Nation
:
Warres
make
Lawes
mute
.
SECT
.
LVIII
.
FInally
Christians
,
take
this
answer
to
all
that
may
be
further
objected
.
To
be
inquiring
is
honourable
,
but
to
be
ever
learning
and
ne●er
practising
is
dangerous
:
't
was
●
heavy
curse
that
Jeremiah
wished
upon
himself
,
that
his
mothers
womb
might
have
been
alwayes
great
with
him
,
Jer
.
20.17
.
T
is
a
heavy
curse
indeed
upon
that
poor
soul
,
concerning
whom
it
may
be
said
,
the
womb
of
Truth
is
alwayes
great
with
him
,
alwayes
in
pangs
and
throwes
with
him
,
but
cannot
bring
forth
.
FINIS
.