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Richard
Chiswel
,
Church
yard
.
Country
Conformist
in
his
Reflections
on
Dr.
Book
of
the
Unreasonableness
of
a
most
unskilful
,
proud
,
partial
,
obstinate
,
cruel
,
impertinent
Adversary
,
the
description
of
such
Substitutes
,
as
had
neither
the
Candor
nor
Learning
of
the
Doctor
:
of
such
Substitutes
,
as
had
neither
the
Candor
nor
Learning
of
the
Doctor
,
Country
Conformist
,
the
modest
and
peaceable
Inquiry
,
search
for
the
English
Schismatick
Inquiry
into
the
Original
of
Evangelical
Churches
;
a
Conformist
Minister
in
the
Country
;
may
receive
that
from
a
Conformist
,
which
they
will
not
receive
from
such
a
one
as
he
.
most
of
the
Assembly
of
Divines
were
Conformists
,
Episcopi
Episcoporum
,
But
the
Doctor
makes
no
question
,
but
he
shall
confute
this
fanciful
Man
,
and
make
it
appear
,
that
our
present
Episcopacy
(
which
Mr.
opposes
)
is
agreeable
to
the
Institution
of
Christ
,
and
the
best
and
most
flourishing
Churches
;
and
easily
he
may
,
if
Mr.
be
such
a
pitiful
Antagonist
.
were
Subscriptions
,
Declarations
,
and
some
few
alterations
besides
:
That
all
those
that
hinder
the
Union
of
Presbyterians
with
this
Church
,
by
continuing
the
Impositions
,
are
Factors
for
the
Pope
,
tho
possibly
they
may
do
it
ignorantly
,
at
least
many
of
them
.
will
be
satisfied
with
their
own
Congregations
,
that
the
tolerated
Churches
be
declared
parts
of
the
National
Church
,
whereof
the
King
to
be
the
Head
.
But
what
then
?
must
all
be
equally
indulged
,
or
equally
refused
?
A
Man
would
think
by
this
kind
of
arguing
,
that
there
are
some
besides
the
Non-Conformists
,
that
are
not
the
wisest
Men
in
the
World
;
For
upon
the
Principles
laid
down
by
some
of
our
dissenting
Brethren
,
let
the
Constitution
be
made
never
so
easy
to
themselves
,
yet
others
may
make
use
of
their
Grounds
,
and
carry
on
the
Differences
as
high
as
ever
;
which
will
render
all
attempts
of
Union
vain
,
and
leave
the
same
Weapons
ready
to
be
taken
up
by
others
.
he
hopes
,
the
Governours
will
be
able
to
distinguish
betwixt
those
that
subvert
the
Christian
Religion
,
and
deny
the
Faith
,
and
those
that
err
in
small
things
,
and
such
as
are
consistent
with
Salvation
;
and
that
tho
they
may
urge
the
same
Arguments
for
their
Liberty
with
better
Men
,
yet
they
shall
not
have
the
same
Concessions
.
as
raking
into
old
Sores
,
or
looking
back
to
the
proceedings
of
former
times
,
argumentum
ad
hominem
,
That
they
would
not
condemn
others
,
for
that
which
themselves
have
practised
,
and
think
to
be
lawful
in
their
own
Cases
.
in
those
out-crys
against
the
Church
of
as
Cruel
and
Tyrannical
,
for
expecting
and
requiring
Uniformity
;
and
yet
do
not
such
Men
even
at
this
day
contend
for
the
Obligation
of
a
Covenant
,
which
binds
Men
to
endeavour
after
Uniformity
in
Doctrine
,
Discipline
,
and
Worship
?
Plea
for
Peace
.
They
want
the
Ingenuity
of
to
reflect
on
the
Thumbs
and
Toes
,
which
they
have
cut
off
from
others
,
and
think
themselves
bound
to
do
it
again
,
if
it
were
in
their
Power
:
This
in
my
Opinion
is
raking
into
old
Sores
,
and
looking
back
to
the
proceedings
of
former
times
.
Plea
for
Peace
.
the
Doctor
is
not
satisfied
with
looking
backward
,
but
he
will
needs
look
forward
too
,
and
as
if
he
were
a
searcher
of
Hearts
,
undertake
to
tell
what
some
Men
will
do
hereafter
,
if
it
happen
to
come
into
their
Power
.
I
do
confess
he
is
a
plain
Man
,
and
uses
but
little
Ceremony
or
Courtship
in
his
Writings
;
some
Men
have
Humours
and
Ways
of
their
own
—
which
may
be
very
easily
conceded
to
them
;
but
that
he
wrote
his
Book
in
a
continued
Fit
of
Anger
,
or
that
there
are
injurious
,
or
spiteful
Reflections
in
it
,
I
do
not
believe
,
nor
cannot
find
:
he
hath
a
very
quick
and
earnest
temper
of
Mind
,
and
his
stile
is
very
keen
and
pungent
;
but
Spite
and
Anger
are
other
things
,
and
such
as
I
believe
Mr.
a
Stranger
to
.
If
a
quick
and
earnest
temper
of
Mind
,
and
a
keen
and
pungent
stile
,
Humphrey's
,
pays
him
his
hearty
Thanks
for
his
judicious
Tractate
;
for
besides
,
the
Apology
he
hath
made
for
himself
,
he
hath
done
the
learned
Doctor
and
Mr.
a
great
deal
of
right
,
for
he
hath
modestly
and
plainly
rebuked
the
Pride
and
Haughtiness
of
the
one
,
and
given
the
other
his
due
and
deserved
Praise
:
Alsop
this
learned
Man
,
an
Indication
what
estimation
he
hath
of
himself
in
his
contempt
of
others
.
It
is
all
one
in
good
earnest
,
as
if
he
should
more
at
large
speak
thus
to
his
Readers
;
Readers
,
you
may
perhaps
think
that
Mr.
is
a
learned
Man
;
but
alass
,
what
is
he
in
comparison
of
me
?
Stil
.
p.
I
am
the
Man
that
have
all
Learning
in
me
.
't
is
I
have
done
such
Feats
,
especially
against
the
Papists
.
I
am
the
Man
that
have
killed
the
Philistine
.
B.
belike
,
is
one
scarce
worthy
of
the
Doctors
Conquest
,
but
fit
for
his
Compassion
:
that
he
pityed
him
to
see
him
appear
with
so
much
Anger
and
Unbecoming
Passion
:
he
hopes
the
Doctor
is
not
so
elated
,
as
he
is
idle
:
B.
for
a
profound
Divine
(
which
one
may
think
here
he
would
be
at
)
that
he
is
one
as
well
as
others
who
may
be
willing
to
learn
(
or
else
he
is
sure
he
will
have
the
more
need
to
be
taught
)
of
that
Man
whom
he
pitties
:
as
ever
any
Boy
in
the
higher
Form
at
School
,
was
posed
by
his
Master
.
if
the
Doctor
had
light
upon
it
,
in
some
of
his
Books
;
it
is
such
a
raw
,
injudicious
,
indigested
Conception
,
as
could
never
have
once
swum
in
the
Thoughts
of
so
learned
a
Person
,
if
he
had
a
faculty
for
beating
out
a
Notion
,
so
good
as
he
has
for
Books
,
and
negligence
towards
others
,
that
endeavour
it
.
for
it
is
all
one
in
good
earnest
,
as
if
he
should
more
at
large
speak
thus
to
his
Readers
:
Notion
making
:
beat
out
a
Notion
better
:
and
I
do
wonder
how
a
Man
,
whose
parts
are
so
great
,
should
be
so
slender
in
his
reasonings
,
and
why
he
should
undertake
the
resolution
of
such
a
point
,
as
he
is
no
Body
at
,
at
all
;
That
there
is
no
necessity
of
a
constitutive
Head
,
because
a
National
Consent
makes
a
National
Church
,
he
pronounces
it
such
a
grave
Nothing
,
such
a
speaking
Nothing
with
Gravity
,
and
pretence
of
being
wiser
than
his
Fellows
,
that
if
he
do
not
come
to
be
ashamed
before
Mr.
has
done
with
him
,
or
has
reason
to
be
so
,
I
will
be
exposed
to
shume
my self
for
my
speaking
thus
freely
,
plainly
,
and
honestly
,
as
another
Person
perhaps
would
not
do
.
a
plain
and
modest
Rebuke
,
And
truly
a
supercilious
,
haughty
,
Ironical
Contempt
of
worthy
and
good
Men
,
is
so
ill
favoured
a
thing
,
that
nothing
but
plain
and
unpolished
Words
are
fit
to
rebuke
it
,
and
such
a
plain
Rebuke
is
much
more
Christian
and
worthy
of
Religion
,
than
an
insolent
despising
,
and
trampling
upon
ones
Adversaries
,
which
the
Doctor
doth
too
too
frequently
in
his
Book
.
But
whither
will
not
some
Mens
indiscreet
Zeal
,
and
some
of
their
own
Fancies
carry
them
,
especially
after
forty
years
prescription
?
these
last
Words
look
somewhat
scornful
and
sarcastical
:
Mr.
belike
is
a
Man
of
some
Zeal
,
but
of
very
little
Understanding
:
he
entertained
some
Fancies
about
forty
years
ago
,
concerning
the
unlawfulness
of
Diocesan
Episcopacy
,
and
believes
them
to
this
day
upon
Prescription
.
scornful
or
sarcastical
Not
long
after
the
same
B.
)
sets
forth
another
Book
with
this
Title
;
[
The
true
and
only
way
of
Concord
of
all
the
Christian
Churches
]
as
tho
he
had
been
Christ's
Plenipotentiary
upon
Earth
,
and
were
to
set
the
Terms
of
Peace
and
Concord
amongst
all
Christians
.
These
Words
are
very
haughty
and
full
of
Contempt
!
But
is
Mr.
the
only
Man
,
that
has
proposed
his
Judgment
and
Opinion
for
the
healing
the
Breaches
and
uniting
the
Churches
of
Christendom
?
Have
not
the
great
Pacificators
at
home
and
abroad
done
the
same
thing
?
and
were
they
ever
derided
under
the
Notion
of
Christs
Plenipotentiaries
?
Cannot
a
Person
offer
his
judgment
in
this
Case
,
but
it
must
be
entertained
with
scorn
and
derision
,
and
he
exposed
as
a
vaporing
Mountebank
?
the
true
and
only
way
of
Concord
;
a
vapouring
Mountebank
The
Doctor
adds
,
the
Book
is
fraught
with
such
impracticable
Notions
,
and
dividing
Principles
,
as
tho
his
whole
design
had
been
to
prove
that
there
is
no
true
way
of
Concord
among
Christians
;
for
if
there
be
no
other
than
what
he
allows
,
all
the
Christian
Churches
in
the
World
at
this
day
are
in
a
mighty
mistake
.
that
the
fundamental
Principles
of
that
Book
are
no
other
than
the
great
Pacificators
have
laid
down
.
But
the
main
Principles
thereof
are
such
,
as
are
fitted
for
the
attaining
of
as
much
Peace
,
as
can
reasonably
be
expected
in
this
World
:
Union
in
Practice
and
Judgment
is
an
idle
expectation
:
Men
will
believe
variously
,
and
practise
variously
too
.
that
the
design
seemed
to
be
to
prove
that
there
is
no
true
way
of
Concord
among
Christians
.
believe
variously
and
practise
variously
.
But
the
Doctor
adds
.
When
I
looked
into
these
two
Books
,
and
saw
the
design
of
them
,
I
was
mightily
concerned
and
infinitely
surprized
,
that
a
Person
of
his
Reputation
for
Piety
,
of
his
Age
,
and
Experience
in
the
World
,
and
such
a
lover
of
Peace
as
he
had
always
professed
himself
,
and
one
who
tells
the
World
so
often
of
his
dying
,
and
of
the
day
of
Judgment
,
should
think
of
leaving
two
such
Fire-brands
behind
him
.
—
as
scoffing
at
Mr.
for
telling
the
World
of
his
dying
and
the
day
of
Judgment
.
these
Books
are
Firebrands
,
will
appear
to
one
,
who
duely
considers
them
;
But
the
Doctor
will
have
Mr.
resolved
(
or
at
least
seem
to
be
so
)
to
leave
his
Life
and
Sting
together
in
the
Wounds
of
this
Church
:
These
,
are
venemous
Words
,
and
not
becoming
this
worthy
Person
.
peaceable
Design
.
the
Doctors
mistake
to
lay
a
charge
upon
the
Party
;
for
it
was
drawn
up
by
one
Man
,
tho
put
out
by
others
:
that
some
of
the
Presbyterians
did
not
joyn
with
the
Papists
for
a
general
Toleration
,
that
this
honour
doth
not
belong
universally
to
them
.
He
explains
himself
therefore
by
way
of
Supply
,
signifying
that
what
he
said
at
first
,
Still
.
p.
should
be
taken
in
regard
to
the
tolerating
the
Papist
only
privately
,
as
his
meaning
really
was
then
,
and
is
now
but
fuller
expressed
.
to
come
under
the
like
Toleration
:
Lob's
modest
and
peaceable
Enquiry
,
it
is
evident
,
that
the
great
end
of
his
History
,
if
not
of
the
whole
Book
it self
,
is
to
represent
dissenting
Protestants
to
be
but
the
Jesuits
Instruments
:
knowingly
,
or
being
deluded
,
it
is
all
one
;
the
Non-conformists
,
some
of
them
at
least
,
do
receive
or
have
received
Mony
from
the
Papists
,
to
act
their
Affairs
,
and
promote
their
Interest
,
a
putid
Calumny
,
a
malicious
Falshood
,
afrontless
Lie
;
He
avows
,
that
never
any
Person
in
Authority
,
Dignity
,
or
Power
in
the
Nation
,
nor
any
that
had
any
relation
to
publick
Affairs
,
nor
from
them
,
Papist
or
Protestant
,
did
once
speak
one
Word
to
him
,
or
advise
with
him
,
about
any
Indulgence
or
Toleration
to
be
granted
to
Papists
:
to
engage
the
Reader
to
believe
that
the
Dissenters
are
a
People
carrying
on
the
Popish
Designs
,
The
Dissenters
have
embraced
the
Jesuits
Principles
about
spiritual
Prayer
,
and
a
more
pure
way
of
Worship
.
it
is
not
improbable
that
the
Jesuits
were
the
first
setters
up
of
spiritual
Prayer
in
England
.
there
are
strong
Probabilities
,
that
the
Jesuitical
Party
had
a
great
influence
on
the
very
first
beginnings
of
the
Separation
the
more
zealous
Priests
and
Jesuits
,
fearing
the
Effect
of
such
a
Compliance
,
first
drew
off
the
secret
Papists
from
all
Conformity
with
our
Church
:
to
draw
off
Protestants
from
the
Communion
of
this
Church
too
,
under
the
pretence
of
greater
Purity
and
Perfection
.
Foxes
and
Firebrands
;
de
facto
,
there
is
no
improbability
in
the
thing
,
if
we
consider
the
Suitableness
of
these
Pretences
about
spiritual
Prayer
to
the
Doctrine
and
Practises
of
the
Jesuits
:
For
they
are
professed
despisers
of
the
Cathedral
Service
,
and
are
excused
from
their
Attendance
on
it
by
the
Constitutions
of
their
Order
;
and
are
great
Admirers
of
spiritual
Prayer
,
and
an
Enthusiastick
way
of
preaching
.
The
Jesuits
are
not
for
free
Prayer
in
publick
.
publick
free
Prayer
Rome
,
ergo
,
That
free
Prayer
is
not
the
Jesuits
Invention
;
that
the
Jesuits
are
for
free
Prayer
in
publick
,
and
that
free
Prayer
is
the
Jesuits
Invention
:
with
treating
the
holy
Spirit
at
an
indecent
manner
,
by
ascribing
its
work
,
namely
spiritual
Prayer
,
unto
the
Jesuits
,
as
though
such
are
the
works
of
the
Spirit
,
that
they
cannot
be
distinguished
from
the
Invention
of
the
Jesuit
:
the
Dissenters
have
blasted
the
Reputation
and
Honour
of
the
Reformation
,
which
is
the
great
thing
the
Jesuits
would
be
at
.
to
overthrow
the
Constitution
of
the
Church
of
that
nothing
is
more
envied
and
maligned
by
the
Papists
than
the
Church
of
nothing
they
have
more
wished
to
see
broken
in
pieces
;
nor
have
used
more
Arts
or
Instruments
to
destroy
;
that
Protestant
Bishops
have
been
martyred
by
their
means
,
who
yet
had
the
same
Episcopacy
,
that
is
now
among
us
,
and
which
some
now
are
so
busy
in
seeking
to
destroy
,
by
publishing
one
Book
after
another
,
on
purpose
to
represent
it
as
unlawful
and
inconsistent
with
the
Primitive
Institution
;
is
all
this
done
for
the
honour
of
our
Reformation
?
is
this
the
way
to
preserve
the
Protestant
Religion
among
us
,
to
fill
Men's
minds
with
such
prejudices
against
the
first
settlement
of
it
?
I
do
not
say
such
Men
are
set
on
by
the
Jesuits
,
but
I
say
they
do
their
Work
as
effectually
as
if
they
were
.
That
the
Papists
do
not
so
much
envy
and
maligne
the
Episcopal
Government
,
—
neither
is
it
their
Principle
nor
Interest
to
destroy
it
,
The
Reputation
of
the
first
Reformation
is
not
hereby
blasted
,
nor
are
the
first
Reformers
in
the
least
reproached
.
The
memory
of
these
Worthies
is
precious
unto
the
Dissenters
,
who
can
distinguish
between
their
Episcopacy
,
and
their
Martyrdom
,
they
not
being
martyred
for
Episcopacy
,
but
for
renouncing
Transubstantiation
,
It
being
a
wonder
,
that
in
less
than
six
Years
time
they
should
do
more
towards
Reformation
than
all
the
Bishops
in
besides
have
done
in
almost
six-score
Years
;
they
went
as
far
as
possibly
they
could
in
that
Juncture
,
and
probably
would
have
gone
&c.
had
they
Time
and
Opportunity
.
The
Reformation
of
Doctrine
and
Worship
,
to
the
Rules
of
our
Christian
Religion
in
every
behalf
,
that
no
Christian
Conscience
could
be
offended
with
any
thing
therein
contained
.
William
Nixon
,
in
his
Examination
before
the
Bishop
of
Says
,
that
Bishop
of
and
Dr.
did
recant
it
at
their
death
acknowledged
his
Fault
to
and
when
they
would
have
put
on
the
same
Apparel
upon
him
,
he
said
they
were
abominable
,
and
too
fond
for
a
Vice
in
a
Play
.
Where
find
you
that
in
the
Book
of
Letters
of
the
Martyrs
?
It
may
be
shewed
in
the
Monuments
of
the
Church
,
that
many
which
were
burned
in
Q.
days
,
dyed
for
standing
against
Popery
,
as
we
now
do
.
That
those
very
Persons
,
who
were
so
zealous
in
Q.
days
for
Episcopacy
,
were
Persons
of
whom
it
is
recorded
,
that
in
time
of
Persecution
they
were
Men
of
the
same
Principles
with
Dissenters
.
A.
G.
Part
.
2.
lib
.
3.
p.
chap.
4.
p.
That
in
it
hath
wrought
more
mischief
in
thirty
years
,
than
the
Pope
of
had
done
before
,
I
think
in
five
hundred
:
In
the
second
Book
he
taketh
up
what
rash
Words
he
could
,
from
any
indiscreet
Men
to
make
them
odious
:
That
the
first
ten
or
eleven
years
of
the
Queen's
Reign
they
so
clamoured
,
&c.
that
they
divided
themselves
from
their
ordinary
Congregations
,
and
meeting
in
Houses
,
Woods
,
and
Fields
,
kept
there
disorderly
and
unlawful
Conventicles
.
That
they
told
the
Parliament
,
that
their
Discipline
was
God's
Order
,
and
they
must
in
Conscience
speak
for
it
:
They
erected
a
Presbytery
at
drew
up
a
Book
of
their
Discipline
;
had
their
Classical
,
Provincial
,
Comitial
Synods
,
and
Government
:
That
he
gives
an
account
of
the
resolves
of
their
Synods
about
several
parts
of
Discipline
and
Government
:
We
are
not
obliged
to
make
what
they
did
,
and
what
they
attained
unto
,
and
what
they
judged
meet
as
to
the
Worship
and
Government
of
the
Church
,
our
absolute
Rule
:
That
they
did
not
think
themselves
obliged
,
they
did
not
think
meet
to
abide
within
the
bounds
and
limits
of
that
Reformation
of
the
Church
,
which
had
been
attempted
before
them
,
by
Men
wise
,
learned
,
and
holy
even
in
this
Nation
.
Wickliffe
and
his
Followers
,
in
Testimony
whereunto
many
suffered
Martyrdom
.
did
not
at
once
make
what
they
had
done
themselves
to
be
a
fixed
Rule
in
these
things
;
for
themselves
made
alterations
in
the
Service-Book
which
they
first
composed
.
The
first
Reformers
,
both
Bishops
and
others
,
both
those
who
underwent
Martyrdom
at
home
,
and
those
who
lived
in
Exile
abroad
,
differed
among
themselves
,
in
their
Judgments
and
Apprehensions
about
those
things
,
which
are
now
under
contest
.
They
differed
in
these
things
from
all
other
reformed
Churches
,
with
whom
they
did
absolutely
agree
in
Doctrine
,
and
had
the
strictest
communion
in
Faith
and
Love
:
These
things
,
were
the
stated
Rule
and
Order
of
their
Church
.
In
their
Reformation
they
avowedly
proposed
a
Rule
and
Measure
unto
themselves
,
which
was
both
uncertain
,
and
in
many
things
apparently
various
,
from
the
Original
Rule
of
these
things
given
by
Christ
and
his
Apostles
,
with
the
Practice
of
the
first
Churches
.
And
this
was
the
State
and
Example
of
the
Church
under
the
first
Christian
Emperors
;
as
our
Author
confesseth
.
newly
delivered
from
horrid
Darkness
,
met
with
great
Oppositions
and
Difficulties
.
The
Dissenters
oppose
Episcopacy
and
Innocent
Ceremonies
,
notwithstanding
their
Antiquity
.
The
non-embracing
Episcopacy
does
not
advantage
the
Papists
;
We
have
but
a
short
account
of
the
Transactions
of
the
first
three
hundred
years
:
't
is
certain
that
those
Errors
crept
in
gradually
,
the
Iniquity
being
a
Mystery
,
that
began
even
in
the
Apostles
days
.
This
Mystery
of
Iniquity
,
Bellarmine's
Thunder-bolt
:
Episcopal
Government
is
acknowledged
to
have
been
received
universally
in
the
Church
presently
after
the
Apostles
times
.
Between
the
Apostles
times
and
this
,
presently
after
,
there
was
not
time
enough
for
,
nor
possibility
of
so
great
an
Alteration
;
and
therefore
there
was
no
such
Alteration
as
is
pretended
.
And
therefore
Episcopacy
being
confessed
to
be
so
Ancient
and
Catholick
,
must
be
granted
also
to
be
Apostolick
,
Our
Divisions
give
great
Advantages
to
the
Papists
;
and
the
Dissenters
by
their
Separation
,
have
caused
the
Division
.
falling
in
with
the
same
Principles
,
and
arguing
from
the
same
Topicks
The
Doctor
suggests
the
impossibility
of
a
limited
Toleration
,
and
therefore
his
Objections
are
made
against
an
universal
and
unlimited
Toleration
,
The
Doctor
asserts
the
danger
of
receding
from
the
settled
Constitution
.
the
alteration
of
some
Penal
Laws
against
Dissenters
,
to
be
an
Opposition
of
an
unlimited
Toleration
,
a
boundless
Toleration
,
an
indulging
of
Drunkenness
,
Swearing
,
Felony
,
Murder
,
Adultery
;
That
the
Dissenters
accepted
of
his
Majesties
gracious
Toleration
,
given
them
seven
or
eight
Years
ago
.
But
the
Doctor
suggests
,
that
Jesuites
might
creep
in
under
the
notion
of
Dissenters
;
and
cannot
they
rather
slide
into
great
Preferments
under
the
covert
of
a
Gown
,
a
Cassock
,
a
Surplice
?
The
Temptation
surely
is
greater
,
and
the
way
much
more
easy
.
yet
't
is
the
resolve
of
Protestant
Dissenters
to
be
ready
on
all
Occasions
to
shew
their
Loyalty
and
Thankfulness
to
his
Majesty
for
every
instance
of
his
Bounty
towards
his
dissenting
,
but
most
dutiful
and
loving
Subjects
.
by
an
over-fierce
opposing
the
Papists
.
Now
the
Dissenters
tack
about
,
and
strike
in
with
the
rage
of
the
People
,
and
none
so
fierce
against
Popery
as
they
,
whereby
they
marr
a
good
Business
by
over-doing
it
.
from
trucking
under-hand
for
toleration
with
the
Papists
,
The
History
of
Conformity
,
or
,
a
proof
of
the
mischief
of
Impositions
.
one
would
reasonably
think
,
there
should
not
be
one
Protestant
in
who
should
not
think
it
high
time
for
our
Superiors
to
unite
all
Protestants
.
to
commend
our
Worship
to
the
Papists
,
he
had
better
have
said
nothing
:
a
due
reverence
to
Antiquity
;
some
will
say
,
How
have
we
reverenced
Antiquity
,
in
retaining
three
of
their
Ceremonies
,
and
leaving
out
twenty
more
of
greater
Antiquity
?
to
manifest
the
Justice
and
Equity
of
the
Reformation
,
to
let
the
Papists
see
,
we
did
not
break
Communion
with
them
for
things
meerly
indifferent
.
What
need
was
there
of
our
keeping
two
or
three
Ceremonies
,
to
testify
we
did
not
differ
from
them
for
meer
matters
of
indifferencie
,
when
so
many
Books
,
so
many
Disputations
,
testified
we
differed
from
them
because
of
their
Idolatry
in
many
things
,
and
their
Doctrine
of
Justification
by
Works
.
Francis
Baldwin
To
shew
our
consent
with
other
Protestant
Churches
,
is
of
all
the
most
weak
;
Luther
,
Zwinglius
Justus
Jonas
:
Hooper
,
de
re
Vestiarra
;
Sadolet
,
declared
,
That
he
was
for
restoring
the
Face
of
the
antient
Church
;
and
in
his
Book
of
the
true
way
of
Reformation
,
he
would
not
contend
about
Ceremonies
,
not
only
those
things
which
are
for
decency
,
but
those
which
are
Symbolical
.
History
of
Conformity
,
a
History
of
the
Reformation
,
From
this
short
and
true
account
of
the
rise
and
growth
and
effects
of
these
Impositions
,
a
good
account
may
be
given
of
a
late
Authors
History
of
Separation
,
the
smallness
of
it
at
first
,
and
the
further
increase
and
improvements
of
it
,
which
indeed
did
much
vary
,
according
as
Impositions
varied
and
multiplied
.
all
Ministers
enjoyned
by
the
Statute
to
read
those
Prayers
,
and
all
the
People
to
hear
them
,
there
were
no
Non-Conformists
to
direct
that
Act
against
but
only
Papists
.
But
upon
the
second
Edition
of
the
Common
Prayer-Book
there
appeared
a
considerable
Party
who
opposed
themselves
to
it
:
John
a
Lasco
,
No
Subscription
was
required
to
any
thing
by
any
legal
Authority
,
nor
was
the
use
of
all
the
Common
Prayer-Book
,
or
an
exact
observance
of
the
Ceremonies
generally
urged
.
very
few
Men
were
Sufferers
.
But
the
body
of
the
Nonconforming
Ministers
and
People
were
much
quiet
,
until
not
only
Arch-Bishop
was
dead
,
but
Bishop
also
,
who
succeeded
him
,
who
died
about
1583
,
about
the
of
the
Queen
.
Francis
Walsingham
Perverse
disputings
of
Men
of
corrupt
Minds
,
and
destitute
of
the
Truth
,
supposing
that
Gain
is
Godliness
,
from
such
withdraw
thy self
.
Against
whom
hast
thou
exalted
thy
Voice
,
and
lifted
up
thy self
on
high
?
dele
this
.
at
their
death
;
any
else
,
anything
else
.
into
these
Words
.
this
,
as
.
this
As.
I
know
not
.
Congregation
in
forty
Years
more
,
Congregation
;
in
Church
and
State
,
in
own
,
in
his
own
.
but
our
Laws
or
Canons
tolerate
such
Men
,
but
do
our
Laws
and
Canons
tolerate
such
Men
?
at
all
.
was
in
,
was
not
in
.
those
have
,
those
who
have
.
only
an
,
only
says
an
.
(
i.e.
the
Reasons
to
be
ordained
are
the
Judges
of
it
)
(
i.e.
the
Persons
to
be
ordained
)
did
ordain
,
did
not
ordain
is
the
State
,
is
in
the
State
.
Modest
and
Peaceable
Inquiry
,
A
Modest
and
Peaceable
Inquiry
into
the
Design
and
Nature
of
some
of
those
Historical
Mistakes
that
are
found
in
Preface
to
his
Unreasonableness
of
Separation
.
modest
and
peaceable
,
historical
Mistakes
,
and
the
Churches
of
Christ
in
it
;
their
Rebellions
and
Insurrections
in
King
days
,
the
Armado
in
Queen
the
Gun-powder
Treason
in
King
&c.
and
the
late
Hellish
Conspiracy
,
which
was
designed
for
the
utter
Extirpation
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
the
universal
Destruction
of
all
the
Professors
thereof
,
whether
Episcopal
or
Dissenter
.
to
gratifie
the
Roman
Faction
,
by
acting
so
sutably
to
the
Jesuits
Measures
,
as
discovered
by
Mr.
and
some
others
,
which
is
to
revile
the
Dissenters
,
as
the
Dr.
hath
done
,
reviling
Dissenters
,
Sham
Plot
Majesties-loyal
Subjects
to
the
merciless
Cruelty
of
bloody
Papists
,
dissenting
Protestants
to
be
the
Jesuits
Instruments
be
men
,
not
worthy
of
any
savour
from
a
Protestant
Prince
,
for
surely
such
are
the
Jesuits
Engines
.
peaceable
design
Loyal
Dissenters
:
Loyal
Dissenters
Whether
it
was
to
cast
Contempt
on
the
Wisdom
of
the
Parliament
,
who
entertain
other
Sentiments
concerning
the
Dissenters
,
or
whether
it
be
to
cast
a
Bone
of
Contention
into
the
Parliament
House
,
thereby
to
prevent
the
uniting
and
strengthning
the
Protestant
Interest
,
as
well
for
diverting
the
House
from
these
other
Methods
,
which
are
most
necessary
for
the
impeding
the
future
growth
of
Popery
?
Or
whether
to
raise
one
of
the
severest
Persecutions
against
that
loyal
and
truly
Protestant
Party
,
Uriah
)
which
cannot
be
weakned
or
impoverished
,
but
to
the
advancing
of
Papal
Designs
.
modest
and
peaceaable
Inquiries
,
Since
the
Destruction
of
Episcopacy
may
be
attended
with
the
Royal
Distribution
of
Church
Lands
among
our
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
than
which
a
greater
Blow
cannot
be
given
to
the
Papal
Interest
in
as
appears
by
the
Heroick
Actings
of
the
Eighth
in
a
like
case
.
modest
and
peaceable
peaceable
and
uniting
design
;
Loyal
Dissenter
,
Loyal
and
truly
Protestant
Party
)
Loyal
and
truly
Protestant
Party
,
Loyal
and
true
Protestants
Modest
and
Peaceable
Inquirer
Modesty
and
Peaceableness
of
this
Inquirer
;
Fanatick
Modesty
and
Peaceableness
.
the
whole
of
the
Controversie
is
this
,
Whose
Honour
is
mostly
to
be
valued
,
that
of
the
Episcopal
Clergy
,
or
that
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
?
for
the
Episcopal
cannot
make
any
abatements
of
these
indifferent
things
consistent
with
their
Honour
;
they
have
once
imposed
these
things
,
as
terms
of
Union
,
and
cannot
now
honourably
recede
the
least
Iota
.
We
do
heartily
and
sincerely
desire
Union
with
our
Brethren
,
if
it
may
be
had
on
just
and
reasonable
terms
;
but
they
must
not
think
that
we
will
give
up
the
Cause
of
the
Church
for
it
,
so
far
as
to
condemn
its
Constitution
,
or
make
the
Ceremonies
unlawful
,
which
have
hitherto
been
observed
and
practised
in
it
:
if
any
Expedient
can
be
found
out
for
the
ease
of
other
mens
Consciences
,
without
reflecting
on
our
own
;
if
they
can
be
taken
in
without
reproach
or
dishonour
to
the
Reformation
of
the
Church
,
I
hope
no
true
Son
of
the
Church
of
will
oppose
it
.
with
setting
a
greater
value
on
the
Honour
and
Reputation
of
men
than
on
Union
,
or
the
relieving
tender
Consciences
,
in
order
to
Union
.
Melius
Inquirendum
,
modest
Inquirer
setling
a
greater
value
on
the
Honour
and
Reputation
of
men
,
than
on
Union
.
peaceable
Inquiry
for
the
Satisfaction
of
mens
Consciences
,
and
for
the
Peace
and
Stability
of
this
Church
?
the
least
Iota
:
ejected
Ministers
,
That
the
bare
Subscription
of
thirty
six
Articles
concerning
doctrinal
Points
,
be
not
allowed
as
sufficient
to
qualifie
any
man
for
a
Living
,
or
any
Church
Preferment
;
We
do
heartily
and
sincerely
desire
Union
,
modest
Inquirer
,
Historical
Mistakes
common
Enemy
,
happy
Union
;
great
noise
peaceable
Inquirer
,
That
he
falls
in
entertaining
the
same
Principles
,
and
arguing
from
the
same
Topicks
with
him
;
doth
,
in
the
general
,
highly
extol
Union
,
Peace
,
and
Concord
,
in
the
Church
,
making
it
a
note
of
the
true
Church
even
so
the
Dr.
(
tho
he
doth
not
make
Peace
and
Concord
a
note
of
the
Church
yet
he
doth
speak
enough
of
it
's
Excellency
and
Desireableness
;
for
Union
is
a
lovely
name
,
which
is
in
great
Esteem
,
even
among
such
as
will
not
part
with
a
Toy
or
Trifle
for
the
obtaining
the
thing
.
Union
be
so
lovely
a
name
,
The
true
and
only
way
of
Concord
,
Search
for
the
Unity
to
be
essential
to
the
universal
and
particular
Churches
,
Union
be
so
lovely
a
name
,
If
the
Dissenters
can
,
without
Offence
to
God
and
wrong
to
their
own
Consciences
,
comply
with
the
Terms
imposed
by
you
for
their
Non-complyance
is
a
Sin
,
that
in
it
's
Tendencies
advanceth
Popery
;
but
if
the
Dissenter
cannot
conform
to
your
Impositions
,
as
they
really
cannot
,
and
you
can
,
without
Sin
,
make
such
easie
Overtures
for
Peace
,
as
may
be
grateful
to
Dissenters
,
your
refusing
in
this
case
to
comply
,
doth
sufficiently
convince
you
to
be
the
Divider
and
Promoter
of
the
Papacy
.
without
Offence
to
God
,
without
wronging
their
own
Consciences
,
offending
God
,
wronging
his
own
Conscience
,
they
really
cannot
,
Dean
,
And
you
can
,
without
Sin
,
make
easie
Overtures
for
Peace
,
as
may
be
grateful
to
Dissenters
;
your
refusing
,
in
this
case
,
to
comply
,
doth
sufficiently
convince
you
to
be
the
Divider
.
good
Protestant
Dissenters
new
Overtures
,
Eutopian
Commonwealth
.
The
Church
,
without
sin
,
can
part
with
their
indifferent
Ceremonies
,
but
without
sin
,
cannot
comply
with
them
;
what
then
must
be
done
for
Must
the
comply
in
things
wherein
they
can
,
without
Sin
?
or
must
the
sin
,
and
loose
their
Peace
with
God
for
This
is
the
state
of
the
case
,
the
but
cannot
,
the
can
,
but
will
not
;
the
and
the
doth
make
the
but
who
is
the
If
the
true
reason
of
our
Division
lay
on
the
Dissenters
when
they
't
would
be
easie
to
conclude
them
obstinate
and
perverse
,
what
,
not
to
do
what
they
but
since
they
how
can
they
be
the
the
Church
,
without
sin
,
can
part
with
their
indifferent
Ceremonies
:
the
Church
indifferent
Ceremonies
,
indifferent
things
;
indifferent
Ceremonies
indifferent
Ceremonies
,
can
part
with
them
without
sin
:
that
the
Dissenters
,
without
sin
,
cannot
comply
with
them
;
without
sin
,
indifferent
things
:
will
not
,
will
not
,
If
the
Dissenters
can
without
Sin
,
obey
their
Governours
in
that
is
,
in
things
,
but
will
not
;
and
the
would
be
content
to
part
with
things
for
but
cannot
,
who
is
the
what
must
be
done
for
Must
the
Dissenters
comply
in
things
wherein
they
can
without
Sin
,
or
must
the
Episcopal
sin
,
and
lose
their
Peace
with
God
for
inconsiderable
a
Pamphlet
,
indifferent
things
indifferent
things
,
indifferent
things
will
not
,
without
Sin
,
indifferent
things
;
external
Circumstances
,
moral
nature
external
performance
ways
of
Motion
;
make
provision
charitable
Works
.
private
devotions
,
vocal
Prayers
,
set
Form
conceived
Prayer
;
Form
,
&c.
indifferent
thing
is
necessary
uncommanded
things
external
Circumstances
,
Ecclesiastical
Laws
publick
Worship
,
external
circumstances
Divine
Command
,
Coffee-houses
,
Play-houses
,
Bear-Gardens
,
Religious
worship
Apostolical
Constitution
)
without
a
Form
,
with
one
?
full
hour
Apostolical
Precept
?
Hats
off
,
Hats
on
?
Lord's
Supper
upper
Room
private
house
?
Religious
Institutions
Lord's
Supper
Women
Disciples
indifferent
things
indifferent
Usages
,
indifferent
things
indifferent
things
,
indifferent
Ceremonies
indifferent
Ceremonies
indifferent
C●stoms
or
Ceremonies
,
indifferent
things
,
indifferent
;
indifferent
Usages
,
indifferent
things
Lord's
Supper
,
Gloria
Patri
,
proper
Circumstances
external
circumstances
religious
actions
;
meer
significancy
true
worship
inward
devotion
external
worship
invisible
devotion
,
external
behaviour
;
actions
,
postures
external
circumstances
signifies
well
,
signifies
ill
.
external
honour
,
visible
worship
;
put
on
their
Hats
God's
worship
,
necessary
part
publick
worship
)
immediate
presence
,
symbolical
ceremony
,
wise
and
few
;
much
,
great
boldness
great
intimacy
religious
Assemblies
every
where
,
Divine
worship
,
worship
of
God
.
gentile
Sons
of
the
Church
of
England
That
they
can
profit
B.
third
D●fence
,
more
by
a
Play
than
by
a
Sermon
;
symbolical
ceremony
.
external
circumstances
necessary
to
publick
worship
,
every
man
,
external
modes
good
use
chuse
well
,
publick
worship
;
publick
worship
,
visible
expressions
times
,
places
,
postures
,
habits
,
words
,
undecent
words
,
places
,
postures
,
publick
worship
,
publick
affront
indifferent
things
,
external
circumstances
publickly
worshipped
,
publick
scorn
true
Cause
of
them
;
true
Schismatick
,
Christian
Unity
as
he
will
;
one
way
same
mind
,
distinct
Churches
distinct
Communions
pulling
down
faulty
Divider
,
Union
;
Union
setled
terms
without
it
.
Sophistical
Argument
,
parted
with
,
without
sin
;
That
the
Opinion
of
Dissenters
,
that
are
unlawful
in
the
of
God
,
is
a
for
parting
with
them
.
useful
Ceremonies
any
number
Christian
Church
;
indifferent
Rites
Religious
Ceremonies
slovenly
Dispensation
Religious
worship
,
Publick
Worship
external
signs
peremptorily
determined
Divine
Law
,
Publick
Worship
,
peculiar
way
guilty
Dividers
:
Publick
Worship
,
External
Rites
external
worship
,
publick
Places
,
worship
of
God
,
Hats
off
,
put
them
on
;
extemporary
Effusions
,
Lord's
Supper
,
external
Order
innocent
Rites
Independent
,
&c.
Visible
Church
publick
Worship
,
orderly
Performance
publick
Worship
,
indifferent
Circumstances
,
publick
Worship
,
Popish
Ceremonies
indifferent
things
indifferent
things
indifferent
things
,
indifferent
things
,
indifferent
Ceremonies
,
indifferent
things
,
counterfeit
Epithite
,
fleering
Expression
)
strike
Light
;
a
Pen
consequently
,
that
is
but
turning
the
Cock
,
and
it
will
run
at
any
time
a
Sermon
full
,
or
a
Book
full
,
as
he
hath
occasion
.
he
is
usually
too
sudden
,
A
Search
after
the
English
Schismatick
,
I
determine
not
in
all
this
,
who
is
the
but
make
a
pair
of
Spectacles
for
the
purblind
to
discern
it
;
same
man
,
same
man
,
passive
Conformists
,
such
as
think
a
Reformation
very
desirable
,
but
Conformity
lawful
to
escape
silencing
and
ruine
and
such
as
like
Conformity
for
it self
,
and
wish
all
others
did
conform
,
but
like
not
uncharitable
Censures
,
or
silencings
,
or
violence
against
Conscionable
Dissenters
,
nor
the
Compulsions
which
have
caused
our
Church-convulsions
.
uncharitable
Censures
,
conscionable
Dissenters
,
conscionable
Dissenters
,
passive
Conformists
,
passive
Conformists
,
Schismaticks
,
So
far
as
they
own
the
Schismatical
dividing
terms
of
Communion
,
Conformists
,
the
Nonconformists
must
needs
judge
these
to
partake
in
Schism
,
most
moderate
,
passive
Conformists
,
Schismaticks
;
yet
as
they
reproach
not
Dissenters
as
Schismaticks
,
so
neither
are
they
accounted
Schismaticks
by
the
Dissenters
.
partake
in
a
Schism
,
passive
Conformists
because
they
are
sound
and
peaceable
brethren
,
and
desire
to
live
,
as
such
,
with
others
,
and
Schism
is
not
their
disposition
nor
predominant
.
Sound
and
peaceable
,
any
schismatical
dividing
terms
of
Communion
;
peaceable
Conformists
,
sound
and
peaceable
,
Nonconformists
passive
Conformist
,
Dividing
Parties
sound
and
peaceable
,
dividing
Parties
Schism
is
not
their
Disposition
,
nor
predominant
;
Schism
is
not
predominant
actual
Schism
,
has
a
great
number
of
degrees
,
few
Churches
on
earth
are
no
way
guilty
of
Schism
,
and
yet
are
not
to
be
called
Schismaticks
,
where
it
is
not
predominant
.
Christian
Communion
,
Christ's
Body
,
non
recipit
magis
&
minus
:
Christian
Worship
,
opposite
Church
who
1.
appropriate
the
Church
to
some
narrow
Sect
or
Party
,
which
denieth
all
others
to
be
true
Churches
,
or
to
have
true
Ministers
or
Sacraments
.
Diocesan
Episcopacy
,
Liturgies
,
indifferent
Ceremonies
,
Bishops
,
Liturgies
,
Ecclesiastical
Historian
Diocesan
Bishops
innocent
Ceremonies
,
appropriate
the
Church
to
some
narrow
Sect
and
Party
,
which
denieth
all
others
to
be
true
Churches
,
or
to
have
true
Ministers
or
Sacraments
,
parochial
Episcopacy
,
quite
contrary
true
Character
of
a
Schismatick
,
schismatical
Principle
appropriating
the
Church
to
some
Sect
or
Party
;
Principle
of
Christian
Union
,
schismatical
Principle
,
Sectarian
Schismatick
,
And
next
to
those
,
that
though
they
own
others
as
true
Churches
or
Ministers
,
yet
hold
their
Communion
unlawful
,
when
it
is
not
so
,
and
renounce
Communion
with
them
upon
these
Grounds
:
other
Churches
,
Parochial
,
Diocesan
,
national
Churches
,
Such
People
as
talk
through
the
Windows
on
the
West-side
of
Presbyterian
,
Independent
,
holding
their
Communion
unlawful
:
when
it
is
not
so
,
Episcopal
,
Presbyterian
,
parts
of
Worship
,
p.
107
,
&c.
Church
of
England
Active
Canonical
Conformists
,
Those
that
are
for
the
present
Form
of
Ecclesiastical
Government
,
with
the
Litany
and
Canons
,
and
the
Laws
which
enforce
them
(
who
call
usually
for
the
execution
of
those
Laws
)
Diocesan
Canoneers
,
Army
Saints
.
passive
Conformists
,
are
for
the
Laws
usually
call
for
the
execution
of
those
Laws
.
barbarous
Outrages
Popery
and
Fanaticism
.
Active
Conformists
leading
Fanaticks
private
encouragement
,
persecuted
Church
,
Diocesan
Canoneers
.
means
such
as
are
guilty
of
no
other
punishable
Errours
or
Sins
,
but
such
as
the
Act
of
Uniformity
doth
eject
and
silence
us
for
:
is
guilty
of
no
other
punishable
Errours
or
Sins
.
meer
Non-conformists
:
meer
Non-conformists
,
active
Nonconformists
who
declared
openly
their
judgments
about
Doctrine
,
Worship
,
and
Discipline
,
in
1660.
after
a
common
meeting
at
and
another
at
the
which
is
publish'd
in
print
:
are
the
Reconcilers
,
or
Peace-makers
,
who
then
laboured
and
begged
for
Peace
and
Unity
in
vain
;
A
separating
Wall
,
or
dividing
thorny
Hedge
in
the
midst
of
this
part
of
the
Vineyard
of
Christ
,
to
separate
one
part
of
the
faithful
Ministers
and
People
from
the
rest
;
That
he
once
made
it
the
most
earnest
Action
of
his
Life
,
to
have
prevented
the
building
of
this
Wall
,
or
Hedge
,
And
that
I
as
earnestly
desire
to
see
that
Wall
or
Hedge
pull'd
down
,
that
Christ's
Flock
among
us
,
may
be
one
,
and
I
will
do
the
best
I
can
,
while
I
live
,
to
pull
it
down
,
that
there
may
be
no
such
Separation
.
by
going
on
both
sides
of
the
Hedge
,
though
by
so
doing
,
you
be
scratch'd
;
meer
Non-conformists
,
that
they
tye
themselves
to
the
Judgments
of
none
,
called
Non-conformists
heretofore
,
Presbyterians
,
Independents
,
passive
Non-conformists
,
meer
Non-conformists
Catholick
Christians
,
Catholick
Separatists
,
to
the
Word
of
God
,
and
the
example
of
the
true
Primitive
Churches
:
Episcopal
,
Presbyterian
,
Independent
Jus
divinum
;
And
the
Example
of
the
true
Primitive
Churches
,
Bishops
,
Presbyter
,
Parochial
Independent
,
Diocesan
Canoneering
Episcopacy
.
meer
present
Non-conformist
,
And
are
not
for
Concord
only
with
a
Sect
,
or
a
dividing
Party
,
high
or
low
,
but
for
that
Catholick
Church
,
and
Communion
of
Saints
,
which
are
in
our
Creed
.
Catholick
Unity
:
for
the
Catholick
Church
,
and
Communion
of
Saints
,
which
are
in
our
Creed
,
meer
Non-conformists
meer
Non-conformists
,
Our
Question
now
is
of
two
Parties
here
,
the
and
present
which
are
the
tiring
his
Readers
,
by
turning
a
Mentiris
English
Lie
)
into
a
civil
long
Parenthesis
.
Plea
for
but
has
forborne
it
with
others
far
more
guilty
,
least
their
Reverence
and
Power
,
should
make
truth
intolerable
,
whose
Passion
or
Interest
,
or
Error
,
had
made
gross
Lies
seem
true
and
necessary
.
Historical
Mistakes
:
Hocus
Pocus
if
the
History
be
given
in
Answer
to
him
that
demandeth
the
Reasons
,
then
the
History
containeth
these
B.
The
matter
of
Fact
must
go
first
;
the
Bishop
demanded
of
me
,
an
account
of
our
this
is
the
beginning
of
an
Answer
,
the
Reasons
must
come
next
.
We
must
not
submit
to
sinful
Terms
of
Communion
,
but
renouncing
the
Covenant
,
owning
the
Authority
of
Diocesan
Bishops
,
using
the
Liturgy
,
and
any
symbolical
Ceremonies
,
are
sinful
Terms
of
Communion
:
We
must
not
submit
to
them
.
Historical
Account
English
Schismatick
;
not
determined
who
he
is
,
but
made
a
pair
of
Spectacles
for
the
purblind
to
see
it
,
Diocesan
Canoneers
,
the
meer
present
Non-conformists
.
Historical
account
About
the
essentiating
Head
of
our
own
national
Church
.
2.
Whether
Bishops
be
necessary
to
the
Being
of
a
Church
,
or
only
to
the
Well-being
of
it
:
about
the
Points
called
About
Original
Sin
;
85.
About
the
Imputation
of
Christ's
Righteousness
;
86.
About
God's
eternal
Decrees
;
87.
About
Universal
Redemption
;
88.
The
nature
of
justifying
Faith
;
89.
Sufficient
Grace
;
90.
Distinguishing
Grace
;
91.
The
Perseverance
of
the
Justified
;
92.
The
Religious
use
of
The
Morality
of
the
Sabbath
;
97.
About
subject
Presbyters
,
and
the
different
Sense
of
the
Word
Schisms
among
themselves
,
which
are
too
many
to
be
here
numbred
;
Holland
,
de
Praedestinatione
Aphorisms
of
Justification
,
John
Goodwin's
Redemption
redeemed
,
They
agree
not
of
the
essentiating
Head
of
their
own
national
Church
,
whether
it
be
Lay
or
Clergy
,
King
or
Bishop
,
(
and
so
are
,
indeed
,
of
divers
Churches
)
no
,
nor
whether
it
have
any
constitutive
Head
or
none
.
An
essential
constitutive
Head
,
about
Prerogative
,
Laws
,
and
Property
,
19.
&c.
active
Canoneering
Diocesans
,
passive
Conformists
;
That
some
only
,
are
for
bidding
Prayer
in
the
Pulpit
,
others
use
Prayer
there
,
93.
Some
pray
in
their
own
Words
,
and
some
in
the
words
of
the
Liturgy
,
some
use
the
same
words
,
and
others
vary
them
.
one
is
for
Altars
and
Rails
,
and
others
against
them
,
and
others
for
Indifferency
98.
in
preaching
,
they
use
very
different
Methods
;
And
,
some
Churches
of
them
begin
to
use
new
versions
of
the
singing
Psalms
.
99.
Their
Cathedral
Worship
much
differeth
from
the
Parochial
,
and
some
Churches
use
Organs
,
and
others
have
none
.
95.
indifferent
Usages
Diocesan
Canoneers
,
Church
Impositions
,
meer
Non-conformists
;
The
Convocation
cast
away
the
King's
Declaration
,
and
drew
up
the
Changes
in
the
Liturgy
,
which
added
to
our
Burden
.
Convocation
cast
it
away
,
but
they
drew
the
Parliament
to
confirm
it
all
:
Corporation
Oath
,
Cross
in
Baptism
,
27.
God-fathers
and
God-mothers
,
Kneeling
at
Sacrament
,
29.
Confirmation
by
Episcopal
Imposition
of
hands
,
They
excommunicate
all
Ministers
,
that
voluntarily
relinquish
their
Calling
,
and
use
themselves
as
Laymen
,
and
yet
thousands
must
do
both
,
if
the
Bishops
silence
them
.
The
new
Canons
,
and
Et-Caetera
Oath
in
1640.
brought
in
without
the
Parliament
,
draw
in
the
Parliament
to
confirm
them
all
,
They
must
profess
Consent
and
Practise
to
pronounce
all
that
they
bury
to
be
TAKEN
TO
GOD
IN
MERCY
,
WHERE
WE
HOPE
TO
COME
,
(
except
only
the
Excommunicate
,
unbaptized
,
and
Self-murderers
)
were
they
Atheists
or
Prophane
.
taken
to
God
in
Mercy
,
where
we
hope
to
come
,
It
has
pleased
Almighty
God
,
of
his
great
Mercy
,
to
take
unto
himself
,
the
Soul
of
our
dear
Brother
here
departed
;
That
when
we
depart
this
Life
,
we
may
rest
in
him
,
as
our
Hope
is
,
this
our
Brother
doth
.
God's
taking
to
himself
the
Soul
of
our
dear
Brother
in
great
Mercy
,
our
resting
in
him
;
God's
taking
our
Souls
to
himself
in
great
Mercy
,
to
his
Mercy
:
Shall
seven
years
of
Famine
come
unto
thee
in
thy
Land
?
Or
wilt
thou
flie
three
Months
before
thy
Enemies
,
while
they
pursue
thee
?
Or
,
that
there
be
three
days
Pestilence
in
thy
Land
?
David
Let
us
fall
now
into
the
hand
of
the
Lord
(
for
his
Mercies
are
great
)
and
let
me
not
fall
into
the
hand
of
man
.
2
Sam
.
Non-conformists
Advocate
,
That
the
Devil
had
,
and
has
still
,
the
Power
of
Death
,
in
respect
of
all
impenitent
Sinners
,
as
the
Carnifex
or
Executioner
,
has
Power
over
all
those
who
are
condemned
to
die
:
They
be
put
into
his
hands
,
that
the
Sentence
may
be
actually
fulfilled
,
That
abominable
wicked
Workers
go
immediately
after
Death
into
the
hands
of
the
great
God
to
be
disposed
of
by
him
according
to
the
promises
of
the
Gospel-Covenant
.
God's
taking
the
Souls
of
bad
men
in
Mercy
to
himself
,
then
the
Preist
shall
say
,
Excommunicatio
sub
judice
,
latae
Sententiae
;
Ipso
facto
,
Lord's
Supper
,
notorious
and
open
evil
Livers
;
must
declare
Assent
to
a
false
Rule
for
finding
Easter-day
,
and
consent
to
keep
two
Easters
,
often
,
yea
,
though
it
be
confessed
false
.
alwayes
true
,
generally
true
,
Paschal
Schism
Common-Prayer
Book
,
contained
in
,
and
prescribed
by
it
,
peaceable
Design
:
New
Stile
,
New
Stile
,
Holland
,
France
,
Spain
,
Italy
,
&c.
English
Easter
,
That
it
is
not
lawful
,
on
any
pretence
whatsoever
,
to
take
Arms
against
those
commissionated
by
the
King
.
It
is
not
lawful
,
upon
any
pretence
whatsoever
,
to
take
Arms
against
the
King
;
and
that
I
do
abhorr
that
traiterous
Position
of
taking
Arms
by
his
Authority
against
his
Person
,
or
against
those
that
are
commissionated
by
him
.
that
it
is
unlawful
,
upon
any
Pretence
,
to
take
Arms
against
those
commissionated
by
the
King
:
illegal
,
fraudulent
,
extorted
upon
any
pretence
whatsoever
,
commissionated
by
the
King
,
to
the
King
himself
.
that
none
must
preach
that
subscribeth
not
,
that
(
there
lieth
no
obligation
from
the
Oath
called
the
Covenant
,
on
him
,
or
any
other
Person
,
to
endeavour
any
Change
or
Alteration
of
Church-Government
)
though
many
hundred
thousands
took
that
Oath
whom
we
know
not
,
nor
their
sense
.
that
no
man
is
obliged
,
by
the
Covenant
,
unless
we
knew
his
sense
,
whether
he
thinks
himself
obliged
or
not
:
and
so
all
Reformation
of
Church-Government
is
made
unlawful
and
impossible
,
though
vowed
.
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
?
illegal
Covenant
the
Parish
Priest
must
publish
Excommuncations
,
though
against
his
Conscience
,
against
godly
men
,
for
not
conforming
.
passive
Conformists
,
Diocesan
Canoneers
godly
Schismaticks
,
Ordination
enableth
no
man
to
preach
,
without
farther
License
.
Primitive
Church
,
J.
Calv
.
Angliae
Protect
.
inter
Epist.
p.
41.
ed.
Amst.
1667.
too
great
extent
of
Parishes
,
where
many
thousand
Parishioners
cannot
be
received
in
their
Parish
Church
;
Diocesan
Canoneers
,
publick
Worship
,
established
Religion
,
meer
pretence
Independents
,
Quakers
,
Anabaptists
,
like
Savages
,
forbear
all
publick
Learning
and
Worship
of
God
:
Schismatical
Conventicles
,
They
swear
the
Church-wardens
to
present
all
that
come
not
to
Church
,
and
punish
them
for
not
coming
,
when
some
Parishes
have
40000
,
some
30000
,
some
10000
,
that
can
have
no
room
,
and
the
Church-wardens
cannot
know
them
.
Diocesan
Canoneer
occasional
Communion
,
That
if
they
go
to
other
Parishes
oft
for
Communion
,
they
must
not
be
admitted
,
but
forbidden
,
and
sent
Home
.
them
to
hear
and
joyn
with
Non-conformists
,
like
Savages
,
they
forbear
all
publick
Learning
,
and
Worship
of
God
.
if
they
go
to
other
Parishes
oft
for
Communion
,
they
must
be
forbidden
,
and
sent
home
:
yet
if
they
go
,
Lord's
Supper
,
N.
44.
Though
many
melancholy
Persons
dare
not
communicate
in
the
Sacraments
,
and
many
others
are
secretly
conscious
of
Atheism
,
Infidelity
,
or
Wickedness
,
they
must
be
compelled
to
receive
thrice
a
year
.
Lord's
Supper
three
times
a
year
,
God's
Worship
?
melancholy
Persons
,
who
dare
not
communicate
in
the
Sacraments
,
must
be
compelled
to
it
.
Superstitious
Melancholy
,
apparent
cause
,
bodily
distempers
,
Lord's
Supper
,
others
are
secretly
conscious
of
Atheism
,
Infidelity
,
or
Wickedness
,
must
be
compelled
to
receive
:
profess'd
Christians
,
Atheists
,
Infidels
,
very
wicked
Persons
,
Atheists
,
&c.
Lord's
Supper
.
that
other
Parishes
(
too
many
)
have
Priests
,
that
are
raw
,
unskilful
men
,
utterly
unfit
for
such
pastoral
helps
.
too
many
,
raw
and
unskilful
men
,
If
a
Parish
have
a
Priest
so
drunken
,
that
his
own
Family
can
scarce
live
with
him
,
or
so
insufficient
,
that
he
never
preaches
,
because
he
cannot
,
or
will
not
,
and
People
scruple
encouraging
such
a
one
in
his
ill
undertaking
of
the
Ministry
,
and
dare
not
take
him
for
their
Pastoral
Guide
,
they
are
forbid
to
go
from
him
,
and
communicate
in
the
next
Parish
,
and
the
Minister
that
receiveth
them
,
or
baptizeth
their
Children
,
though
conformable
,
is
suspended
.
civil
parenthesis
.
drunken
Priests
,
Lord's
Supper
eo
intuitu
Can
.
57.
publick
Liturgy
,
Superstitious
Conceit
,
Ecclesiastical
Censures
;
superstitious
persuasion
,
superstitious
conceit
,
the
efficacy
of
the
Sacrament
depends
upon
the
Administrator
,
passive
Conformist
Preachers
,
he
is
no
Bishop
that
had
not
the
Peoples
Election
and
Consent
.
bad
man
p.
313.
&c.
they
suppose
that
God
hath
intrusted
the
King
to
chuse
for
all
his
Subjects
,
whom
they
shall
commit
the
conduct
of
their
Souls
to
,
as
their
Pastors
and
Bishops
.
Religious
matters
;
is
not
intrusted
to
chuse
our
Physicians
,
our
Wives
,
our
Diet
,
&c.
Royal
Charters
:
if
a
Papist
,
Heretick
,
or
a
hater
of
Pastoral
Holiness
,
should
ever
be
King
,
in
how
sad
a
case
are
the
Peoples
Souls
?
the
Magistrate
is
Judge
whom
he
will
tolerate
,
but
he
must
judge
aright
.
he
be
a
Papist
,
&c.
they
must
judge
aright
,
innocent
Ceremonies
,
the
Peoples
Souls
were
in
a
sad
case
.
as
if
mens
wilful
and
wicked
indispositions
would
change
the
Office
,
and
disoblige
both
them
and
those
that
are
guilty
of
no
such
unfitness
,
from
the
obligations
laid
upon
them
by
the
Lord
:
they
may
as
wisely
say
,
that
a
sober
Physician
is
obliged
to
no
more
than
a
drunken
one
can
perform
,
or
,
that
a
seeing
man
may
do
no
more
than
the
blind
can
do
;
or
,
that
a
Learned
Prince
may
not
meddle
with
Learning
,
because
an
Unlearned
Prince
is
not
fit
for
it
.
five
Disputations
of
Church-Government
and
Worship
.
Diocesan
Canoneers
,
they
hold
,
that
Patrons
,
be
they
never
so
ignorant
or
ungodly
,
must
chuse
all
that
shall
have
the
Parochial
trust
of
Souls
.
(
as
to
the
possession
of
Temples
and
Tythes
we
yield
it
.
)
n
.
70.
They
separate
from
us
and
our
Congregations
,
as
unlawful
to
be
joyned
with
;
to
charge
the
Nonconformists
with
suspicions
of
Rebellion
:
as
intolerable
,
seditious
Schismaticks
.
followed
Providence
,
by
these
means
,
Families
are
distracted
,
Husbands
against
Wives
,
Parents
against
Children
.
Donatists
,
Recordamini
quomodo
à
vobis
jamdudum
matris
Ecclesi●
membra
ab
invicem
distracta
sunt
,
non
enim
unamquamque
demum
semel
seducere
potuistis
,
sed
aut
ivit
uxor
,
&
recedit
maritus
,
aut
parentes
seducti
sunt
,
&
fili●
sequi
noluerunt
,
aut
stetit
frater
,
sorore
migrante
,
persuasionibus
vestris
divisa
sunt
corpora
&
nomina
Pi●tatis
.
Hoc
verbum
videte
,
cui
parti
competat
,
nobiscum
erant
omnes
,
nobis
absentious
irruistis
,
&
ut
haberetis
quas
habere
desiderastis
,
non
potuistis
nisi
seducere
.
Optat
.
l.
3.
Diocesan
Canoneers
,
some
turn
them
out
,
if
they
do
but
hear
a
Non-conformist
Preacher
,
while
sensuality
corrupteth
youth
,
and
needeth
more
restraint
:
Sensuality
corrupts
youth
,
Diocesan
Canoneer
,
mere
present
Nonconformist
Dioc●san
Canoneer
one
body
;
there
is
but
one
body
,
one
Spirit
,
and
one
Lord
,
and
one
Faith
,
and
one
Baptism
,
one
Body
,
Catholick
Church
.
Catholick
Church
;
Catholick
Church
,
Pentecost
,
The
number
of
the
names
together
,
were
about
an
hundred
and
twenty
,
Thus
the
Lord
added
to
the
Church
daily
,
such
as
should
be
saved
,
one
Body
,
And
God
hath
set
some
in
the
Church
,
first
,
Apostles
,
secondarily
,
Prophets
,
thirdly
,
Teachers
;
after
that
,
Miracles
,
then
Gifts
of
Healing
,
Helps
,
Governments
,
Diversities
of
Tongues
.
Cypr
.
de
Unitate
.
Ecclesiae
Catholicae
,
Episcopi
Catholici
;
Catholick
Churches
Catholick
Bishops
,
Catholick
Church
;
Acts
of
the
Apostles
,
Jerusalem
,
Acts
Kingdom
of
Heaven
is
like
to
a
Grain
of
Mustard
seed
,
which
a
man
took
,
and
sowed
in
his
Field
,
which
indeed
is
the
least
of
all
Seeds
;
but
when
it
is
grown
,
it
is
the
greatest
among
Herbs
,
and
becometh
a
Tree
,
so
that
the
Birds
of
the
Air
come
and
lodge
in
the
Branches
thereof
:
one
Church
.
Catholicae
Ecclesiae
Unitatem
,
besides
one
Church
,
which
is
the
Catholick
Church
,
the
other
Opt.
l.
Id.
l.
2.
Churches
,
which
Hereticks
seem
to
have
,
are
not
Churches
;
there
is
but
one
Church
,
which
Christ
calls
his
Dove
and
Spouse
.
The
Unity
of
the
Church
,
Ibid
.
Pax
Catholica
,
Catholick
Communion
,
Catholick
Peace
,
Catholick
Unity
;
The
Lord
added
to
the
Church
daily
such
as
should
be
saved
.
unum
caput
,
una
origo
,
una
mater
foecunditatis
successibus
copiosa
,
Tert
.
de
praescript
.
haeret
.
c
.
Sower
sowed
good
corn
,
the
Enemy
sowed
Tares
;
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
is
compared
to
a
net
which
was
cast
into
the
Sea
,
and
gathered
of
every
kind
,
both
good
and
bad
fish
;
Angels
shall
come
forth
,
and
sever
the
wicked
from
the
just
,
a
grain
of
mustard-seed
,
to
leaven
,
which
a
woman
took
and
hid
in
three
measures
of
meal
,
till
the
whole
was
leavened
,
to
a
woman
cloathed
with
the
Sun
,
and
the
Moon
under
her
feet
;
a
great
mystery
,
as
Christ
loved
his
Church
.
Temple
of
God
,
And
other
Sheep
I
have
,
which
are
not
of
this
Fold
,
and
they
shall
hear
my
Voice
,
and
there
shall
be
one
Fold
and
one
Shepheard
.
one
Fold
,
Lost
Sheep
of
the
House
of
Canaan
,
15
Math
.
24.
I
am
not
sent
,
but
to
the
lost
Sheep
of
the
House
of
contradicted
and
blasphemed
,
It
was
necessary
,
that
the
Word
of
God
should
first
have
been
spoken
to
you
;
but
seeing
you
put
it
from
you
,
and
judge
your selves
unworthy
of
everlasting
Life
,
loe
,
we
turn
to
the
Gentiles
;
for
,
so
hath
the
Lord
commanded
us
,
saying
,
I
have
set
thee
to
be
a
Light
to
the
Gentiles
,
that
thou
shouldest
be
for
Salvation
to
the
ends
of
the
Earth
.
one
Fold
,
If
some
of
the
Branches
be
broken
off
,
Jews
)
and
thou
being
a
wild
Olive
Tree
,
wert
grafted
in
amongst
them
,
and
with
them
partakest
of
the
Root
and
Fatness
of
the
Olive
Tree
,
boast
not
against
the
Branches
,
but
if
thou
boast
,
thou
bearest
not
the
Root
,
but
the
Root
thee
;
radicem
Abraham
And
to
the
same
purpose
,
St.
upon
the
expounds
the
Word
That
in
his
Seed
all
the
Nations
of
the
World
should
be
blessed
.
Thou
bearest
not
the
Root
,
but
the
Root
thee
;
Thus
St.
expounds
it
,
For
if
thou
wert
cut
out
of
the
Olive
Tree
,
which
is
wild
by
Nature
,
and
wert
grafted
contrary
to
nature
,
into
a
good
Olive
Tree
;
the
middle
Wall
of
Partition
,
reconciling
them
in
one
Body
,
Strangers
and
Foreigners
,
v.
12.
Were
Aliens
from
the
Commonwealth
of
and
Strangers
from
the
Covenant
of
Promise
)
Fellow
Citizens
with
the
Saints
,
and
of
the
Houshold
of
God
;
Commonwealth
of
&c.
of
the
Houshold
of
God
,
built
upon
the
Foundation
of
the
Apostles
and
Prophets
,
Jesus
Christ
himself
being
the
chief
Corner-stone
;
But
now
in
Christ
Jesus
,
we
who
sometimes
were
afar
off
,
are
made
nigh
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
hath
abolished
,
in
his
Flesh
,
the
Enmity
,
even
the
Law
of
Commandments
contained
in
Ordinances
,
for
to
make
in
himself
,
of
twain
,
one
new
man
,
so
making
Peace
.
In
whom
,
all
the
fitly
framed
together
,
groweth
into
an
holy
Temple
in
the
Lord
.
the
Commonwealth
of
That
all
Christians
should
annually
meet
in
one
place
,
That
Christians
should
have
one
Arch-Priest
on
Earth
,
Hebrews
,
7
Heb
.
That
we
should
be
all
subject
to
one
temporal
Jurisdiction
,
and
speak
one
Language
,
That
before
the
Law
,
Christian
Religion
,
and
consequently
,
a
Christian
Church
,
did
,
in
substance
subsist
,
but
what
Unity
of
Government
was
there
then
?
Christianity
was
in
Substance
before
the
Law
,
there
was
no
Unity
of
Government
,
Jewish
Church
Christian
Church
,
the
temporal
Union
of
the
might
only
figure
the
spiritual
Unity
of
Christians
,
in
Faith
,
Charity
,
and
Peace
,
Thessal
.
3.
14.
And
if
any
man
obey
not
our
Word
by
this
Epistle
,
note
that
man
,
and
have
no
company
with
him
,
that
he
may
be
ashamed
.
Cor
.
5.
11.
I
have
written
unto
you
not
to
keep
Company
,
if
any
man
that
is
called
a
Brother
,
be
a
Fornicator
,
or
covetous
,
or
an
Idolater
,
or
a
Railer
,
or
a
Drunkard
,
or
an
Extortioner
,
with
such
a
one
no
not
to
eat
;
with
such
a
one
not
to
eat
,
as
do
such
a
thing
;
Communicatio
pacis
,
appellatio
fraternitatis
&
contesseratio
hospitalitatis
,
de
praescript
.
cap
.
Communio
Ecclesiastica
,
Modest
Inquiry
.
Quis
unquam
clericum
lapsum
paenitentem
vidit
?
Communio
laica
,
one
Body
,
which
is
his
Church
,
Holy
Father
,
keep
,
through
thy
name
,
those
whom
thou
hast
given
me
,
that
they
may
be
one
as
we
are
.
Neither
pray
I
for
these
alone
,
but
for
them
also
,
which
shall
believe
on
me
,
through
their
Word
,
that
they
all
may
be
one
,
as
thou
Father
art
in
me
,
and
I
in
thee
,
that
they
also
may
be
one
in
us
;
that
the
World
may
believe
,
that
thou
sent
me
,
and
the
Glory
wbich
thou
gavest
me
,
I
have
given
to
them
,
that
they
may
be
one
even
as
we
are
one
,
I
in
them
,
and
thou
in
me
,
that
they
may
be
made
perfect
in
one
,
and
that
the
World
may
know
,
that
thou
hast
sent
me
,
and
hast
loved
them
,
as
thou
hast
loved
me
.
To
withdraw
our selves
from
those
who
teach
otherwise
,
and
consent
not
to
wholsome
words
,
even
the
words
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
and
to
the
Doctrine
,
which
is
according
to
Godliness
.
Totus
Christus
caput
est
&
corpus
:
caput
unigenitus
Dei
filius
,
&
corpus
ejus
Ecclesia
,
sponsus
&
sponsa
,
duo
in
carne
una
.
Quicunque
de
ipso
Capite
ab
Scripturis
sanctis
dissentiunt
etiamsi
in
omnibus
locis
inveniantur
in
quibus
ecclesia
designata
est
,
non
sunt
in
Ecclesia
.
Et
rursus
quicunque
de
ipso
capite
Scripturis
Sanctis
consentiunt
,
&
unitati
Ecclesiae
non
commanicant
,
non
sunt
in
Ecclesiâ
,
quia
de
Christi
corpore
,
quod
est
Ecclesia
,
ab
ipsius
Christi
testificatione
dissentiunt
.
i
.
e
.
Aug.
de
unitate
Eccles
.
are
built
upon
the
Foundation
of
the
Apostles
,
and
Prophets
,
Jesus
Christ
himself
being
the
chief
Corner-stone
;
In
whom
the
whole
building
,
fitly
framed
together
,
groweth
into
an
holy
Temple
in
the
Lord
.
built
upon
the
Foundation
of
the
Apostles
and
Prophets
they
grow
up
into
a
holy
Temple
;
keep
the
unity
of
the
Spirit
in
the
bond
of
one
Faith
;
the
Unity
of
the
Spirit
in
the
bond
of
Peace
one
Faith
Optat
.
l.
Ruffin
.
lib
.
Ecclesiast
.
Hist
.
cap
.
Antioch
,
that
when
was
dead
,
and
put
in
his
room
,
being
yet
alive
,
who
had
alwayes
continued
in
the
Catholick
Unity
,
there
arose
great
Quarrels
and
Controversies
among
them
,
when
there
was
no
apparent
and
visible
disagreement
in
matters
of
Faith
;
and
that
thus
it
was
in
many
other
Eastern
Cities
,
through
the
contentions
and
emulations
of
their
Clergy
.
Prelatical
Donatists
;
Cypr
.
Epist.
&c.
Cypr
.
Ep.
ad
Anton
.
erecting
a
prosane
Altar
,
and
placing
an
adulterate
Chair
,
and
offering
sacrilegious
Sacrifices
in
opposition
to
the
true
Bishop
;
de
Unitate
Ecclesiae
,
Novatian
Schism
,
Unity
of
the
Church
,
Unity
of
the
Church
,
Sanct
.
Aug.
Donatists
?
)
Faith
is
that
Virtue
which
unites
the
Church
;
A
new
Commandment
I
give
unto
you
,
that
ye
love
one
another
,
as
I
have
loved
you
,
that
ye
love
one
another
;
by
this
shall
all
men
know
,
that
ye
are
my
Disciples
,
if
ye
have
love
one
to
another
.
We
must
love
one
another
as
Christ
loved
us
.
love
your
Wives
,
even
as
Christ
loved
the
Church
,
and
gave
himself
for
it
.
For
no
man
ever
yet
hated
his
own
Flesh
,
but
nourisheth
and
cherisheth
it
,
even
as
the
Lord
the
Church
,
for
we
are
Members
of
his
Body
,
of
his
Flesh
,
and
of
his
Bones
.
the
Saviour
of
the
Body
,
By
this
shall
all
men
know
,
that
you
are
my
Disciples
,
if
you
have
Love
one
to
another
.
That
there
should
be
no
Schism
in
the
Body
,
but
that
the
Members
should
have
the
same
Care
one
for
another
,
and
whether
one
Member
suffer
,
all
the
Members
suffer
with
it
,
or
one
Member
be
honoured
,
all
the
Members
rejoyce
with
it
;
now
ye
are
the
Body
of
Christ
,
and
Members
in
particular
.
Speaking
the
Truth
in
Love
,
may
grow
up
into
him
in
all
things
which
is
the
Head
,
even
Christ
,
from
whom
the
whole
Body
fitly
joyned
together
,
and
compacted
by
that
,
which
every
Joynt
supplieth
,
according
to
the
effectual
working
in
the
measure
of
every
part
,
maketh
increase
of
the
Body
,
to
the
edifying
of
it self
in
Love
;
Clemens
Romanus
Love
and
Charity
will
cause
no
Schism
,
it
is
not
tumultuous
and
factious
,
but
does
all
things
in
Agreement
and
Concord
.
Unity
of
the
Church
;
Cypr
.
de
unitate
.
What
Unity
what
Love
doth
that
man
keep
and
preserve
,
or
so
much
as
once
think
of
,
who
being
enraged
,
and
almost
distracted
with
furious
Discords
and
Contentions
,
divides
the
Church
,
destroys
the
Faith
,
disturbs
the
Peace
,
violates
Charity
,
profanes
the
Sacrament
?
Concordia
coherens
,
Such
Concord
and
Agreement
as
makes
men
stick
close
together
;
Austin
,
Unitatis
Charitas
,
Optat
.
lib
.
being
united
in
Love
,
and
knit
together
in
the
bond
of
Union
and
Charity
,
as
the
Members
of
the
Body
of
Christ
;
Aug.
de
Unitate
.
by
the
bond
of
Charity
we
are
incorporated
into
that
Building
which
is
founded
on
a
rock
,
Brotherly
love
,
loving
like
Brethren
;
the
bond
of
peace
;
God
is
not
the
Author
of
confusion
but
of
Peace
,
as
in
all
the
Churches
of
the
Saints
:
Grace
be
with
you
,
and
Peace
from
God
the
Father
,
and
from
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
Peace
of
the
Church
,
the
Communion
of
the
Church
.
desire
Peace
,
receive
Peace
,
to
give
them
the
Peace
of
the
Church
,
dye
in
peace
,
osculum
pacis
,
kiss
of
Peace
,
holy
kiss
,
Peter
a
kiss
of
Charity
,
That
Catholick
Unity
does
consist
in
Catholick
Communion
,
one
Body
,
one
Spirit
,
by
this
one
Spirit
,
we
are
all
baptized
into
one
Body
,
whether
we
be
Jews
or
Gentiles
,
whether
we
be
bond
or
free
.
baptized
into
one
body
?
but
one
Baptism
in
the
St.
Cypr
.
in
Conc
.
Carth
.
Church
,
and
no
Baptism
out
of
the
Church
.
Quintus
,
Jubaianus
,
In
the
Name
of
the
Father
,
and
of
the
Son
,
and
of
the
Holy
Ghost
)
Cypr
.
in
Ep.
ad
after
the
manner
of
Apes
,
who
imitate
men
,
though
they
are
not
men
,
challenges
the
Authority
and
Truth
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
to
himself
,
when
he
is
so
far
from
being
in
the
Church
,
that
he
is
a
profest
Enemy
and
Rebel
against
it
:
for
,
knowing
that
there
is
but
one
Baptism
,
he
challenges
this
one
Baptism
to
himself
,
thereby
to
perswade
the
World
,
that
his
Party
is
the
Church
,
and
that
we
are
Hereticks
.
The
Cup
of
Blessing
which
we
bless
,
is
it
not
the
Communion
of
the
Blood
of
Christ
?
The
Bread
which
we
break
,
is
it
not
the
Communion
of
the
Body
of
Christ
?
For
we
being
many
,
are
one
Bread
and
one
Body
,
for
we
are
all
Partakers
of
that
one
Bread
;
behold
after
the
Flesh
,
are
not
they
which
eat
of
the
Sacrifices
,
Partakers
of
the
Altar
.
have
Fellowship
with
Devils
,
by
drinking
the
Cup
,
and
partaking
of
the
Table
of
Devils
.
The
Communion
of
the
Blood
,
and
of
the
Body
of
Christ
,
one
Bread
and
one
Cup
;
one
Bread
,
one
Body
,
we
being
many
,
are
one
Bread
,
and
one
Body
,
for
we
are
partakers
of
that
one
bread
:
that
it
signifies
and
declares
Cypr
.
Caeciliano
.
the
Union
of
Christian
People
;
for
,
as
many
grains
put
together
,
and
ground
small
,
and
well
mix'd
,
make
one
Bread
,
so
we
know
that
in
Christ
there
is
but
one
Body
,
to
which
our
whole
number
is
united
and
combined
.
in
Christ
there
is
but
one
Body
,
one
Bread
one
Body
of
Christ
,
one
Bread
and
one
Body
;
one
bread
the
Communion
of
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
Bread
,
the
Communion
of
the
Body
of
Christ
,
Our
Fellowship
is
with
the
Father
,
and
with
his
Son
Jesus
Christ
.
The
Bread
which
we
break
,
is
it
not
the
Communion
of
the
Body
of
Christ
?
Why
did
〈◇〉
the
Apostle
say
,
the
participation
because
he
intended
to
signifie
something
greater
,
and
to
represent
a
more
close
and
intimate
Union
and
Conjunction
,
for
we
communicate
not
only
by
partaking
and
receiving
but
by
being
united
;
as
the
Body
is
united
to
Christ
,
so
are
we
united
to
him
by
the
Bread
.
for
we
being
many
are
one
Bread
and
one
Body
,
Why
do
I
speak
of
Communion
when
we
our selves
are
that
very
Body
?
For
what
is
the
Bread
?
the
Body
of
Christ
;
who
are
they
that
receive
it
?
the
Body
of
Christ
:
not
many
Bodies
,
but
one
Body
:
for
,
as
the
bread
,
which
is
made
of
several
grains
,
is
so
mixed
and
kneaded
together
,
that
you
can
no
longer
discern
the
particular
grains
,
but
one
lump
and
mass
,
thus
are
we
united
to
each
other
,
and
to
Christ
;
for
thou
art
not
nourished
by
one
Body
and
he
by
another
,
but
all
by
the
same
Body
;
and
therefore
the
Apostle
adds
,
For
we
all
partake
of
that
one
bread
;
and
,
if
we
all
partake
of
the
same
,
we
are
all
the
same
,
and
why
then
should
we
not
shew
the
same
Love
to
each
other
,
that
we
might
be
all
one
that
way
also
?
there
is
one
bread
,
that
the
Apostle
hereby
admonishes
the
that
it
is
their
Duty
to
maintain
this
Unity
they
have
in
Christ
by
an
external
profession
of
it
,
That
they
must
all
meet
together
to
celebrate
that
Feast
,
which
is
a
Symbol
of
this
Sacred
Unity
.
Israel
after
the
Flesh
,
are
not
they
which
eat
of
the
Sacrifices
Partakers
of
the
Altar
:
one
Altar
;
That
there
is
but
one
God
,
and
one
Christ
,
and
one
Church
,
one
Altar
and
one
Priest-hood
,
Cypr
.
ad
Plebem
de
quinque
Presbyteris
Schismat
.
one
Altar
,
Altare
Schismatis
,
Cypr
.
de
Unitate
.
one
Episcopacy
,
part
of
which
,
every
Bishop
holds
with
full
Authority
and
Power
;
Cypr
.
ad
Antonian
.
Ep.
that
there
is
one
Episcopacy
spread
over
the
World
,
by
the
consenting
Multitude
of
many
Bishops
;
The
Unity
and
the
Peace
of
the
Episcopacy
.
Id.
ib
.
Collegium
Episcopale
,
Episcopal
Colledge
,
Aug.
Ep.
Cyp
.
Ep.
69.
ad
Florentium
P●pianum
.
That
the
Catholick
Church
is
not
rent
nor
divided
,
but
united
and
coupled
by
the
Cement
of
Bishops
,
who
stick
close
together
.
the
Unity
of
the
Church
,
Peter
)
viz.
there
is
Cyp
.
de
Unitate
.
but
one
Chair
and
one
original
of
Unity
,
which
begins
in
one
;
for
,
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
were
the
same
that
was
,
had
an
equal
share
in
the
Honour
and
Power
of
the
Apostolical
Office
;
but
the
beginning
is
from
Unity
,
and
the
Primacy
is
given
to
that
it
might
appear
that
the
Church
of
Christ
is
one
,
and
the
Chair
one
,
the
Apostolical
Office
and
Power
.
They
are
all
Pastors
,
but
there
is
but
one
Flock
,
which
is
fed
by
all
the
Apostles
with
a
joynt
Consent
.
id
.
ibid
.
be
built
upon
the
foundation
of
the
Apostles
and
Prophets
.
St.
Cyprian
not
doubting
from
the
nature
of
the
Unity
of
h
.
e
.
Ecclesiastical
Discipline
,
but
the
care
of
all
Churches
was
upon
him
,
dispatched
his
Letters
to
the
Church
of
from
whence
they
were
sent
through
the
Catholick
Church
,
as
an
Evidence
,
that
there
was
but
one
Episcopal
Office
in
the
whole
Church
,
part
of
which
was
committed
in
full
power
to
every
Bishop
.
Paulus
Samosatenus
,
Ecclesiastical
Unity
,
a
copious
body
of
Bishops
,
coupled
by
the
cement
of
Concord
and
bond
of
Unity
,
that
if
any
of
our
Colledge
should
endeavour
to
broach
any
new
Heresie
,
or
to
tear
and
spoil
the
Flock
of
Christ
,
the
rest
may
come
in
to
their
help
,
and
,
like
good
and
merciful
Pastors
,
gather
again
the
sheep
of
Christ
into
the
fold
.
That
in
the
Government
and
Administration
Cypr
.
ad
Steph
.
Ep.
of
Church
Affairs
,
every
Bishop
enjoys
the
Freedom
of
his
own
Will
,
and
is
to
give
an
Account
of
his
actions
to
the
Lord
.
in
such
matters
they
offer
no
Force
,
nor
give
Laws
to
any
man
.
Cypr
.
Concil
.
Carthag
.
That
they
should
all
speak
their
Minds
freely
,
judging
no
man
,
nor
denying
Communion
to
him
,
if
he
differed
from
them
in
this
matter
.
Cyp
.
ad
Steph
.
Ep.
That
there
are
some
,
who
will
never
lay
aside
those
Opinions
which
they
have
once
sucked
in
,
nor
easily
alter
what
they
have
once
resolved
;
but
retain
those
peculiar
Observances
,
which
have
been
in
use
among
them
,
though
preserving
intire
the
Bond
of
Peace
and
Concord
with
their
Collegues
.
He
is
resolved
not
to
contend
with
his
Cypr
.
Ep.
Collegues
and
Fellow-Bishops
,
for
the
sake
of
Hereticks
,
He
will
patiently
and
resolutely
preserve
true
Love
and
Charity
in
his
mind
,
the
Honour
of
the
Colledge
,
the
Bond
of
Faith
,
and
the
Concord
of
the
Episcopal
Office
.
That
formerly
there
were
some
in
his
Province
,
who
would
not
receive
Adulterers
to
the
Peace
and
Communion
of
the
Church
,
nor
allow
them
any
place
for
Repentance
,
yet
did
not
separate
from
the
Colledge
of
their
Bishops
,
nor
break
the
Peace
of
the
Church
,
through
their
Obstinacy
or
inflexible
Severity
of
Discipline
;
Cypr
.
Ep.
That
while
the
bond
of
Concord
,
and
the
undivided
Sacrament
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
is
preserved
and
maintained
;
every
Bishop
orders
and
governs
his
own
Affairs
,
so
as
he
must
give
an
account
to
his
Lord
for
it
.
l.
5.
cap
.
For
these
reasons
,
the
Church
of
commands
all
her
Sister
Churches
,
all
the
World
over
,
that
no
Church
of
God
shall
be
open
to
and
his
Companions
,
and
and
his
Companions
;
let
all
Religious
Houses
be
shut
against
them
;
there
is
no
place
for
the
Devil
in
Paradice
,
who
,
if
he
privately
get
in
,
must
be
thrust
out
again
.
I
command
all
,
both
private
men
and
publick
Magistrates
,
to
separate
them
both
from
their
bed
and
board
,
and
especially
Bishops
,
who
shall
neither
salute
them
while
they
live
,
nor
bury
them
when
they
dye
;
and
if
any
one
despises
the
Censures
of
this
little
Church
,
and
receives
those
to
Communion
,
who
are
condemned
by
her
,
as
if
there
were
no
necessity
of
obeying
a
poor
Church
,
let
such
a
man
know
,
that
he
divides
the
Church
,
which
Christ
will
have
to
be
but
one
,
and
whether
he
be
Deacon
,
Presbyter
,
or
Bishop
,
he
shall
be
to
us
as
is
,
neither
will
we
ever
give
him
our
hand
,
or
eat
with
him
,
much
less
,
communicate
with
these
in
the
Sacred
Mysteries
of
Religion
,
who
have
any
thing
to
do
with
occasional
Communion
Catholick
Christian
mere
Non-conformists
,
and
we
will
be
members
of
no
particular
Church
which
alloweth
us
not
occasional
Communion
with
others
,
but
take
such
for
one
Catholick
Church
,
one
Catholick
Communion
Baxterian
Catholick
Protean
Religionist
,
one
Communion
.
mere
Non-conformist
.
We
hold
we
must
separate
from
no
Church
or
Christian
farther
than
they
separate
from
Christ
,
though
we
must
not
sin
against
God
for
communion
with
any
.
We
take
it
for
a
great
sin
for
any
Party
to
appropriate
the
Church
only
to
themselves
we
own
no
Church
but
as
part
of
the
Catholick
(
or
Universal
)
Church
,
And
we
hold
all
our
Assemblies
as
in
Union
and
Communion
with
all
the
true
Churches
on
Earth
;
Schism
,
that
they
hold
their
Assemblies
in
Union
and
Communion
with
all
true
Churches
on
Earth
.
as
in
Union
,
hold
their
Assemblies
,
as
in
union
and
Communion
with
the
Church
of
put
up
our
Prayers
and
Praises
as
in
Conjunction
with
theirs
,
not
owning
their
Failings
(
or
our
own
)
but
their
Duties
;
as
in
Conjunction
,
as
in
Conjunction
,
as
in
conjunction
.
not
owning
their
failings
(
nor
our
own
)
but
their
Duties
:
own
their
Duties
,
their
failings
,
in
conjunction
Cypr
.
de
unitate
.
for
,
how
can
he
agree
with
any
one
,
who
does
not
agree
with
the
Body
of
the
Church
,
and
the
whole
Christian
Fraternity
;
as
in
conjunction
,
that
they
are
those
,
who
Aug.
contr
.
Cypr
.
de
unitate
.
do
not
communicate
with
the
Catholick
Church
,
but
hold
separate
Meetings
in
Conventicles
of
their
own
.
that
the
Christian
Church
,
which
is
the
Spouse
of
Christ
,
knows
but
one
house
,
and
preserves
the
Chastity
of
one
Bed
:
extra
Ecclesiam
,
foris
,
one
who
is
out
of
the
Church
,
without
doores
:
who
gathers
People
any
where
besides
the
Church
,
Cypr
.
de
unitate
.
id
.
ib
.
who
forsakes
the
Church
,
and
erects
other
houses
and
habitations
for
himself
,
Personal
,
Local
,
Praesential
praesential
and
personal
The
very
nature
of
the
thing
requires
,
praesential
Communion
An
Assembly
for
divine
those
Societies
which
have
not
,
or
which
cannot
have
Assemblies
for
divine
Worship
,
are
not
Churches
properly
so
called
,
need
not
here
be
insisted
on
,
have
all
the
Powers
of
Teaching
and
Ruling
by
the
Word
and
Keys
,
every
single
Congregation
,
must
have
full
Power
to
reform
it self
.
It
is
one
thing
to
separate
from
the
Universal
Church
,
and
another
from
particular
Churches
,
or
a
few
only
:
may
separate
from
all
the
particular
Churches
in
the
World
,
as
if
they
were
no
true
political
Churches
of
Christ
,
and
not
renounce
the
Universal
Church
,
the
Seekers
do
,
who
say
,
that
the
Ministry
,
Scriptures
,
and
Churches
,
are
lost
in
the
wilderness
:
renouncing
)
the
Church
Universal
,
that
reception
into
a
particular
Church
is
no
work
of
Baptism
,
as
such
,
but
a
consequent
act
(
in
order
of
nature
alwayes
,
and
often
of
time
)
the
Eunuch
,
was
baptized
into
no
Church
but
the
Universal
;
it
is
very
fit
that
every
one
that
can
,
be
a
member
of
some
particular
Church
;
yet
Baptism
,
as
such
,
is
no
such
thing
,
nor
hath
such
an
effect
.
in
visible
Communion
,
baptized
into
the
Universal
Church
?
a
single
Church
,
is
,
a
Society
of
Christians
associated
by
consent
,
voluntary
Associations
,
be
forced
into
a
Temple
,
not
consenting
,
for
then
it
is
a
Prison
,
and
they
are
not
a
Church
;
Christian
Communion
,
make
them
take
it
still
against
their
wills
,
and
,
as
it
were
,
to
cram
and
drench
them
with
Sacred
Mysteries
.
meer
Non-conformists
,
we
think
that
all
Churches
should
prefer
a
faithful
Pastor
before
an
unfaithful
and
insufficient
one
,
and
a
purer
Church
before
a
more
corrupt
:
It
is
one
thing
to
separate
locally
by
bodily
Absence
,
and
another
mentally
by
schismatical
Principles
.
mental
Separation
,
a
new
species
of
Churches
?
presential
Communion
,
meet
at
one
place
at
once
the
tenth
part
of
some
Parishes
,
cannot
)
but
as
Neighbours
and
Citizens
may
have
personal
converse
and
meetings
,
of
some
at
one
time
,
and
some
at
another
.
Carthage
in
St.
Cyprian's
time
(
a
place
of
greatness
,
and
great
number
of
Christians
)
where
the
Church
was
grown
very
great
,
but
not
beyond
the
exercise
of
such
Personal
Communion
.
present
Communion
worldly
reasons
have
made
a
change
,
Parochial
Episcopacy
,
present
Communion
;
God
hath
appointed
that
there
shall
be
stated
Assemblies
of
Christians
,
especially
on
the
Lord's
Day
,
where
he
shall
be
worshipped
,
men
instructed
,
and
Communion
exercised
.
That
these
Congregations
should
have
known
stated
Pastors
,
to
be
their
Teachers
and
Guides
in
Worship
and
holy
living
.
That
their
Pastors
,
by
their
Office
,
have
the
Power
of
the
Church-Keys
,
to
judge
whom
to
take
in
by
Baptism
,
and
whom
to
admonish
as
criminal
,
to
reject
as
impenitent
,
and
to
absolve
and
receive
again
as
penitent
,
in
their
proper
charge
local
Communion
,
God
may
be
worshipped
,
men
instructed
,
and
Communion
exercised
.
present
Communion
,
all
must
meet
at
one
place
at
once
,
per
vices
,
some
at
one
time
,
and
some
at
another
:
Were
every
Church
reduced
to
such
a
number
,
as
that
all
might
in
season
have
local
,
personal
Communion
,
like
great
Parishes
that
have
Chappels
;
and
every
Church
of
6000
have
six
Pastors
conjunct
,
or
every
Corporation
,
or
market
Town
(
of
old
called
Cities
)
with
the
Neighbour
Villages
,
be
one
Church
,
and
one
among
these
Pastors
to
be
a
President
Bishop
,
we
should
think
it
most
like
the
ancient
Government
.
conjunct
Pastors
six
conjunct
Pastors
;
St.
Cyprian
,
Florentius
Papianus
,
That
a
Church
is
a
People
united
to
their
Bishop
,
and
a
Flock
to
their
Pastor
.
Feli
issimus
,
that
he
divided
part
of
the
People
from
their
Bishop
,
that
is
,
Sheep
from
their
Pastor
,
and
Children
from
their
Father
;
carkasses
of
mortified
particular
Churches
,
such
Bishops
we
do
not
oppose
:
conjunct
Pastors
with
a
President
Biship
.
The
number
and
need
of
the
People
must
determine
whether
a
particular
Church
shall
have
one
Pastor
or
more
:
If
one
for
Concord
be
President
to
the
rest
,
and
the
senior
Pastors
be
guides
to
the
younger
,
we
are
not
against
it
.
Nor
yet
if
the
Magistrates
or
Churches
,
by
consent
,
appoint
some
of
the
Graver
to
to
be
Visitors
of
many
Churches
,
and
to
instruct
and
keep
the
younger
in
peace
.
Nor
will
we
quarrel
against
the
names
of
Bishops
,
or
Arch-bishops
,
or
their
Wealth
and
Honour
,
while
Faith
,
Worship
,
Discipline
and
Love
are
preserved
.
Episcopi
Episcoporum
,
Arch-bishops
as
put
down
all
the
lower
Bishops
and
govern
the
carkasses
of
the
mortified
particular
Churches
,
as
the
lowest
Bishops
of
many
score
,
or
hundred
such
as
themselves
,
overthrow
the
Species
of
God's
and
Patriarchs
,
the
King's
Officers
,
to
exercise
under
him
such
Government
of
the
Church
as
belongeth
to
Kings
,
they
will
not
quarrel
at
the
name
of
Bishops
or
Arch-bishops
:
Congregational-Churches
to
be
so
much
the
Institution
of
Christ
,
that
any
other
Constitution
above
these
,
is
both
unlawful
and
insupportable
;
If
:
if
it
holdeth
,
that
God
Instituted
only
Congregational
or
Parochial
Churches
,
as
for
present
Communion
,
then
none
of
the
rest
instituted
by
man
may
deprive
them
of
their
Priviledge
granted
by
Christ
:
I
put
it
but
with
an
(
if
it
be
so
)
because
I
told
them
my
own
doubt
of
it
.
After
that
,
I
say
,
(
to
devise
new
Species
of
Churches
without
God's
Authority
,
and
impose
them
on
the
World
,
yea
,
in
his
name
,
and
call
all
Dissenters
Schismaticks
,
is
worse
Usurpation
than
to
make
and
impose
new
Ceremonies
and
Liturgies
)
all
Churches
,
excepting
Parochial
,
are
of
mens
devising
,
considered
as
Churches
;
Classical
,
Diocesan
,
Metropolitical
,
Provincial
,
National
,
Patriarchal
,
Papal
;
a
distinct
Policy
,
or
Church-Form
;
for
,
it
is
perillous
to
give
the
same
name
to
such
an
Assembly
or
Association
,
as
to
a
Church
of
Christ's
Institution
,
lest
it
seduce
men
to
think
that
the
word
is
not
equivocally
used
;
that
the
Presidents
of
all
ranks
of
Synods
,
Classical
,
Diocesan
,
&c.
as
Presidents
of
Councils
for
concord
,
as
the
or
constitutive
Head
of
a
distinct
Church
species
:
the
Dean
plainly
confutes
himself
,
and
confesses
,
that
he
sayes
,
the
Question
is
not
whether
the
Arch-bishops
should
be
over
the
particular
Churches
,
as
Successors
to
the
Apostolical
and
General
Overseers
of
the
first
Age
,
in
the
ordinary
continued
parts
of
their
Office
;
nor
whether
Patriarchs
,
Diocesans
,
Lay-chancellors
,
as
Officers
of
the
King
,
exercising
Magistracy
,
be
lawful
,
and
yet
saith
,
that
I
suppose
the
contrary
;
Presidents
of
Councils
for
concord
,
not
or
the
constitutive
Heads
of
a
distinct
Church-species
;
Arch-bishops
,
which
are
over
the
lower
Bishops
,
do
not
overthrow
it
,
But
those
that
put
them
all
Presbyters
)
down
,
and
govern
the
carkasses
of
the
mortified
particular
Churches
,
as
the
lowest
Bishops
of
many
score
or
hundred
such
as
themselves
;
the
retrenchment
of
Dioceses
,
by
the
multiplication
of
Suffragan
Bishops
,
a
thing
very
reconcileable
with
the
Honour
of
the
Reformation
Arch-bishops
,
that
is
,
Bishops
that
have
oversight
of
many
Churches
with
their
Pastors
,
as
lawful
Successors
of
the
Apostles
in
the
ordinary
part
of
their
work
,
That
which
is
only
a
continuance
of
the
same
kind
of
Churches
,
which
were
in
Being
in
the
Apostolical
times
,
is
no
devising
a
new
Species
of
Churches
,
nor
hath
any
thing
repugnant
to
any
Institution
of
Christ
:
but
that
is
the
case
,
as
to
our
Episcopacy
.
We
intend
no
quarrel
about
names
:
if
it
be
Mr.
s
pleasure
to
call
our
Bishops
Arch-bishops
,
let
him
enjoy
his
own
fancy
.
It
already
appears
from
St.
and
might
much
more
be
made
plain
from
many
others
,
if
it
were
needful
,
that
the
Bishops
of
several
Churches
were
looked
on
as
Successors
to
the
Apostles
,
in
the
care
and
Government
of
Churches
.
Now
the
Office
of
Mr.
Parochial
Bishops
was
only
to
attend
to
one
particular
Congregation
;
but
the
Apostolical
Office
was
above
this
,
while
the
Apostles
held
it
in
their
own
hands
;
and
did
not
make
a
new
Species
of
Churches
,
nor
overthrow
the
constitution
of
Parochial
Churches
.
It
seems
then
a
strange
thing
to
me
,
that
the
continuance
of
the
same
kind
of
Office
in
the
Church
,
should
be
called
the
devising
a
new
Species
of
Churches
:
giving
him
leave
to
call
our
Bishops
Arch-bishops
:
Arch-bishops
have
Churches
with
their
proper
Bishops
under
them
;
but
our
Bishops
say
,
that
there
are
no
such
under
them
;
I
told
you
before
,
that
as
the
Major
General
,
Quartermaster
General
,
of
an
Army
,
constituteth
not
a
distinct
body
from
the
Army
,
and
the
particular
Regiments
and
Troops
,
so
I
am
not
certain
,
that
Apostles
or
Evangelists
,
or
any
general
Preachers
,
as
such
,
did
constitute
any
Church-Form
distinct
from
the
Catholick
and
the
particular
Bishops
Churches
:
but
if
they
are
supposed
to
have
taken
their
several
fixed
Provinces
(
which
I
never
saw
proved
)
I
will
not
contend
whether
those
Provinces
may
be
called
Churches
;
if
we
agree
about
the
thing
,
use
the
name
as
you
see
cause
.
that
he
is
not
certain
,
that
Apostles
,
or
Evangelists
,
or
general
Preachers
,
as
such
,
did
constitute
any
Church-Form
distinct
from
the
Catholick
and
the
particular
Bishops
Churches
.
that
while
the
Apostles
lived
there
were
no
fix'd
Bishops
,
or
very
few
,
for
they
managed
the
Affairs
of
Government
themselves
:
but
as
they
withdrew
,
they
did
,
in
some
Churches
sooner
,
in
some
later
,
as
their
own
continuance
,
the
condition
of
the
Churches
,
and
the
qualification
of
the
Persons
were
,
commit
the
care
and
Government
of
Churches
to
such
Persons
whom
they
appointed
thereto
.
that
then
,
while
they
lived
,
there
were
but
twelve
or
thirteen
Bishops
in
the
World
,
if
any
:
and
were
there
no
more
Churches
in
the
World
that
had
Governing-Pastors
?
Then
if
it
cannot
be
proved
that
the
Apostles
were
fixed
Bishops
,
there
were
none
in
the
World
in
their
times
:
Rome
,
Timothy
If
the
Apostles
were
not
fixed
Bishops
of
any
single
Churches
,
they
have
no
Successors
,
as
such
;
if
they
were
,
we
must
have
but
twelve
or
thirteen
Bishops
,
as
their
Successors
in
the
World
;
and
which
be
those
Seats
,
and
how
prove
they
their
claim
?
humane
terms
of
Communion
,
humane
acts
,
the
circumstantiating
a
known
duty
,
as
holding
Christian
love
and
concord
,
Classical
,
Metropolitical
,
&c.
Catholick
Communion
humane
acts
,
directive
light
of
nature
,
the
things
themselves
being
divinely
instituted
,
are
capable
of
such
general
directions
in
and
by
the
light
of
Nature
,
as
may
,
with
ordinary
Christian
Prudence
,
be
on
all
occasions
applied
unto
the
Use
and
Practise
of
the
Church
.
it
is
capable
of
such
directions
,
as
may
,
with
ordinary
Christian
Prudence
,
be
applied
unto
the
Use
and
Practise
of
the
Church
:
Dr.
O.
that
whatever
is
required
by
the
light
of
Nature
,
in
such
Societies
as
Churches
,
as
useful
to
their
Order
,
and
conducing
to
their
end
,
is
a
divine
Institution
;
Catholick
Communion
one
Catholick
Communion
,
present
Communion
:
Dr.
Owen
presential
Communion
;
never
dissented
from
those
called
Congregational
in
in
the
two
great
Points
from
which
their
Churches
are
denominated
,
That
regularly
they
should
consist
but
of
so
many
as
are
capable
of
personal
Communion
,
which
they
call
a
Congregation
.
2.
And
that
this
congregation
is
not
,
the
spiritual
Government
of
any
Superiour
Church
,
as
Metropolitan
,
Patriarchal
,
Congregational
,
Personal
Communion
present
Communion
,
presential
,
Congregational
Communion
:
de
facto
appointment
of
Christ
:
From
the
state
of
the
first
Churches
after
the
Apostles
,
to
the
end
of
the
second
Century
.
congregational
Churches
,
which
alone
are
suited
unto
the
ends
of
Christ
,
in
the
Institution
of
his
Church
,
Christ
appointed
that
Church-state
which
is
meet
and
accommodated
unto
all
the
ends
which
he
designed
in
his
Institution
of
a
Church
;
but
such
alone
is
that
Church
,
Form
,
and
Order
we
have
proposed
;
i.e.
The
professed
Subjection
of
the
Souls
and
Consciences
of
Believers
unto
his
Authority
in
the
Observance
of
his
Commands
.
2.
The
joynt
Celebration
of
all
Gospel
Ordinances
and
Worship
.
3.
The
Exercise
and
Preservation
of
Discipline
;
1.
For
the
preservation
of
the
Doctrine
of
the
Gospel
,
in
it
's
Purity
and
Obedience
unto
the
Commands
of
Christ
in
it
's
Integrity
:
2.
To
preserve
Love
entire
among
his
Disciples
:
3.
That
it
might
be
a
due
Representation
of
his
own
Love
,
Care
,
Tenderness
,
Patience
,
Meekness
,
in
the
acting
of
his
Authority
in
the
Church
.
4.
To
be
an
Evidence
and
Pledge
of
the
future
Judgment
.
It
is
in
Congregational
Churches
alone
,
that
these
things
can
be
done
and
observed
;
for
unto
all
of
them
are
required
Assemblies
of
the
whole
Church
.
to
unite
all
Believers
in
one
Body
to
Christ
,
their
Head
.
one
Body
;
extraordinary
Officers
whose
Office
and
Power
is
antececedent
to
the
Church
,
and
those
ordinary
Officers
,
unto
whose
Office
and
Power
the
Church
essentially
considered
is
antecedent
,
nothing
is
more
vain
than
to
pretend
any
succession
unto
them
,
in
the
whole
,
or
any
part
of
their
Office
:
Lo
,
I
am
with
you
alway
,
even
to
the
end
of
the
extent
of
their
Commission
,
giving
them
power
towards
all
the
world
for
their
conversion
,
and
over
all
Churches
for
their
edification
,
Jews
,
Turks
,
That
the
Offices
themselves
were
of
the
appointment
of
Christ
:
Christ
gave
some
Apostles
,
and
some
Prophets
,
and
some
Evangelists
,
and
some
Pastors
and
Teachers
.
extraordinary
Officers
That
Persons
were
to
be
interested
in
these
Offices
,
by
the
way
and
means
by
him
prescribed
:
which
were
not
such
as
depended
on
his
own
immediate
,
extraordinary
actings
,
as
it
was
with
the
former
sort
extraordinary
actings
but
such
as
consisted
in
the
Churches
acting
according
to
his
Law
,
and
in
obedience
to
his
Commands
.
For
none
can
communicate
this
Power
to
others
,
but
those
who
have
received
it
themselves
from
Christ
.
Now
this
is
the
whole
Church
,
and
not
any
Person
in
it
,
or
Prelate
over
it
:
look
whatever
constitutes
it
a
Church
,
that
gives
it
all
the
Power
and
Priviledges
of
a
Church
;
for
a
Church
is
nothing
but
a
Society
of
profess'd
Believers
,
enjoying
all
Church-Power
and
Priviledges
,
by
vertue
of
the
Law
of
Christ
.
Unto
this
Church
,
which
is
his
Spouse
,
doth
the
Lord
Christ
commit
the
Keys
of
his
House
,
by
whom
they
are
delivered
into
the
hands
of
his
Stewards
,
so
far
as
their
Office
requires
that
trust
.
essential
Church
,
observed
only
in
Congregational
Churches
,
unto
all
of
them
there
are
required
Assemblies
of
the
whole
Church
:
these
ends
for
which
the
Lord
Christ
appointed
this
Church-state
,
he
reduces
to
three
general
Heads
.
The
professed
subjection
of
the
Souls
and
Consciences
of
Believers
unto
his
Authority
,
in
the
observance
of
his
Commands
,
which
,
cannot
be
done
in
any
Church-state
imaginable
,
wherein
the
Members
of
the
Church
cannot
meet
together
for
this
end
,
which
they
can
onely
do
in
such
a
Church
as
is
congregational
.
of
the
Evangelical
Church-state
,
is
,
the
joynt
celebration
of
all
Gospel-Ordinances
and
worship
.
The
exercise
of
the
Gifts
and
Graces
of
the
Spirit
of
God
,
and
the
mutual
edification
of
the
Disciples
,
That
he
might
hereby
testifie
his
promised
presence
with
his
Disciples
unto
the
end
of
the
World
:
for
it
is
in
Church-Assemblies
,
in
the
performance
of
his
holy
worship
,
that
he
is
present
with
his
Disciples
:
In
these
Churches
thus
exercised
in
the
holy
Worship
of
God
,
he
gives
us
a
resemblance
and
representation
of
the
great
Assembly
above
,
who
worship
God
continually
before
his
Throne
.
John's
Revelation
,
Assemblies
of
the
whole
Church
,
at
once
and
in
one
place
for
the
Celebration
of
divine
Worship
is
of
the
Essence
of
a
Church
,
without
which
,
it
hath
no
real
Being
,
because
,
that
when
God
instituted
such
a
Church-Form
,
as
wherein
all
the
Members
of
it
could
not
ordinarily
come
together
every
Week
,
for
this
end
;
yet
he
ordained
,
that
for
the
preservation
of
their
Church-state
,
three
times
in
a
Year
,
the
Males
,
(
which
was
the
circumcised
Church
)
should
appear
together
in
one
place
,
to
celebrate
the
most
solemn
Ordinances
of
his
Worship
.
from
the
Extent
of
the
Limits
of
that
Church
to
a
whole
Nation
,
for
the
Preservation
of
their
Church-State
,
the
circumcised
Church
;
at
once
,
and
in
one
place
,
appearing
before
the
Lord
;
the
Assembly
of
the
whole
Church
at
once
,
and
in
one
place
,
for
the
Celebration
of
the
divine
Worship
,
The
third
end
of
the
Institution
of
the
Gospel
Church-state
,
is
the
Exercise
and
Preservation
of
Discipline
.
the
preservation
of
the
Gospel
in
it
's
Purity
,
and
Obedience
unto
the
Commands
of
Christ
in
it
's
Integrity
.
The
second
end
of
it
is
to
preserve
Love
intire
among
his
Disciples
:
for
the
most
part
,
those
who
pretend
highly
to
the
preservation
of
Love
,
by
their
coming
to
the
same
Church
,
who
dwell
in
the
same
Parish
,
have
not
so
much
as
the
carkass
,
nay
,
not
the
shadow
of
it
.
to
express
this
Love
by
a
due
and
constant
discharge
of
mutual
Exhortation
,
Admonition
,
Prayer
,
and
watchful
care
one
of
another
.
The
third
end
of
it
is
,
that
it
might
be
a
due
representation
of
his
own
Love
,
Care
,
in
the
acting
of
his
Authority
in
the
Church
.
It
is
in
part
appointed
to
be
an
evidence
and
pledge
of
the
future
Judgment
,
wherein
the
whole
Church
shall
be
judged
before
the
Throne
of
Christ
Jesus
.
Whatsoever
ye
bind
on
Earth
shall
be
bound
in
Heaven
,
and
whatsoever
ye
loose
on
Earth
shall
be
loosed
in
Heaven
.
futuri
Judicii
praejudicium
,
a
representation
of
the
future
Judgment
,
the
notation
of
the
word
,
which
determines
the
sense
of
it
to
a
particural
Congregation
;
to
congregate
in
a
Church-Assembly
;
and
{αβγδ}
signifies
nothing
but
a
Congregation
,
which
assembles
for
the
Ends
and
Uses
of
it
,
and
acts
its
Duties
and
Powers
;
and
so
it
signifies
in
the
New
Testament
.
may
be
sometimes
applied
unto
that
,
where
Essence
is
not
denoted
thereby
,
as
the
Church
Catholick
invisible
,
which
is
only
a
mystical
Society
or
Congregation
:
the
Catholick
Church
is
invisible
,
The
Catholick
Church
is
a
mystical
Society
or
Congregation
,
Wherever
it
is
used
to
denote
an
outward
visible
Society
,
it
doth
connote
their
Assemblies
together
in
one
.
at
once
,
in
one
place
:
an
Evangelical
Church-State
,
(
i.e.
Math
.
18.
17.
If
he
shall
neglect
to
hear
them
,
tell
the
Church
.
We
have
proved
,
that
the
first
and
most
proper
Signification
of
the
Word
,
is
of
a
single
Congregation
;
of
many
,
The
Persons
intended
,
offending
and
offended
,
must
belong
to
the
same
Society
to
whom
the
Address
is
to
be
made
.
tell
the
Church
,
offending
and
offended
,
must
belong
to
the
same
Society
;
tell
it
to
the
Church
;
It
is
a
Church
of
an
easie
Address
.
It
is
said
,
{αβγδ}
,
tell
the
Church
,
not
a
Church
,
but
the
Church
,
namely
,
whereunto
thou
and
thy
Brother
do
belong
:
One
end
of
this
direction
is
,
that
the
offending
and
offended
Parties
may
continue
together
in
the
communion
of
the
same
Church
in
love
,
without
dissimulation
:
The
meaning
is
not
,
tell
the
Diocesan
Bishop
,
—
for
he
himself
is
not
a
Church
:
The
Chancellor's
Court
that
our
Saviour
intended
,
be
it
what
it
will
,
it
is
a
scandal
to
all
Churches
to
have
that
name
applied
to
it
.
is
it
a
Presbytery
,
or
the
Association
of
the
Elders
of
many
particular
Congregations
,
that
is
intended
;
for
the
power
claimed
in
such
associated
Presbyteries
,
is
,
with
respect
to
what
is
already
in
or
before
particular
Congregations
,
which
they
have
not
wisdom
or
Authority
,
as
is
supposed
,
finally
to
order
and
determine
.
But
this
supposeth
,
that
the
Address
in
the
first
place
be
made
unto
a
particular
Congregation
,
which
is
therefore
firstly
,
and
properly
here
intended
.
Tell
it
to
the
Church
.
from
the
nature
of
the
Churches
instituted
by
the
Apostles
,
and
their
ends
,
as
it
is
expressed
in
the
Scripture
:
the
state
of
the
first
Churches
after
the
Apostles
to
the
end
of
the
second
Century
.
de
facto
,
Churches
which
had
many
Elders
,
or
Presbyters
in
them
,
as
apparently
most
of
them
had
,
they
might
,
and
some
of
them
did
,
choose
out
some
one
endued
with
especial
Gifts
,
that
might
in
some
sort
preside
amongst
them
,
and
who
had
quickly
the
name
of
Bishop
appropriated
unto
him
;
—
But
this
changed
not
the
state
of
the
Church
,
though
it
had
no
Divine
Warrant
to
authorize
it
.
We
are
no
way
at
present
concerned
in
the
Controversie
about
that
distinction
of
Bishops
and
Presbyters
,
which
the
Writer
of
those
Epistles
does
assert
.
—
Although
therefore
there
might
have
been
,
and
probably
was
,
some
alterations
in
the
Order
of
the
Churches
,
from
what
was
of
primitive
Institution
,
yet
was
there
as
yet
no
such
change
in
their
state
,
as
to
make
way
for
those
greater
alterations
which
not
long
after
ensued
.
O.
We
do
maintain
,
that
there
ought
to
be
in
every
particular
Congregation
,
unto
the
compleatness
of
it
,
many
Elders
,
or
Overseers
;
that
the
number
of
them
ought
to
be
increased
,
as
the
increase
of
the
Church
makes
it
necessary
for
their
edification
:
double
Honour
,
Sportulantes
fratres
,
wrest
Ecclesiastical
words
to
other
significations
than
at
first
they
were
applied
unto
,
to
impose
the
present
state
of
things
among
them
,
on
those
who
went
before
,
who
knew
nothing
of
them
.
The
Apostles
appointed
in
them
ordinary
Elders
and
Deacons
,
that
might
administer
all
Ordinances
to
the
whole
Church
;
and
take
Care
of
all
the
Poor
—
Now
the
Care
,
Inspection
,
and
Labour
of
ordinary
Officers
can
extend
it self
no
farther
than
to
a
particular
Congregation
.
No
man
can
administer
all
Ordinances
to
a
Dioeesan
Church
,
If
there
were
at
this
time
a
Bishop
in
the
Church
of
he
was
either
deposed
by
the
People
,
or
he
was
not
;
if
he
were
deposed
,
he
was
only
one
of
the
Presbyters
,
for
they
were
only
Presbyters
that
were
deposed
;
if
he
were
not
,
why
is
he
not
once
called
on
to
discharge
his
Duty
in
curing
of
that
Schism
,
or
blamed
for
his
Neglect
.
He
was
but
a
Presbyter
,
for
none
but
Presbyters
were
deposed
;
Clemens
mentions
only
two
Ranks
of
Officers
,
Bishops
and
Deacons
—
other
distinction
and
difference
of
ordinary
Officers
,
besides
that
of
Bishops
or
Elders
,
and
Deacons
,
the
Church
of
in
these
days
knew
not
.
from
that
Order
our
Lord
in
great
Wisdom
has
appointed
in
the
Celebration
of
holy
Offices
,
Ed.
Ox●n
.
that
he
has
appointed
what
should
be
done
and
who
should
do
it
,
that
all
things
being
religiously
observed
which
he
has
appointed
,
may
be
performed
in
such
a
manner
as
is
acceptable
to
him
;
and
therefore
,
those
who
make
their
Oblations
in
their
appointed
Seasons
and
Order
,
are
acceptable
and
blessed
,
for
those
do
not
offend
,
who
obey
the
Laws
,
and
Rules
,
and
Institutions
of
our
Master
.
For
there
are
proper
Offices
allotted
to
the
High
Priest
,
a
proper
place
assigned
to
the
Priests
,
and
proper
Ministeries
incumbent
on
the
Levites
;
and
the
Lay-man
has
his
Lay-duties
also
,
let
every
one
of
us
Brethren
in
our
proper
Rank
and
Order
,
praise
God
with
a
good
Conscience
,
not
transgressing
the
setled
bounds
of
our
Ministry
,
as
it
becomes
comely
Order
.
Justin
Martyr
,
mentions
only
two
sorts
of
Officers
,
Presidents
and
Deacons
,
That
of
the
first
sort
,
in
the
Duty
of
one
of
their
Assemblies
,
he
mentions
but
one
,
the
President
,
the
Ruler
,
the
Bishop
,
to
whom
belonged
the
administration
of
all
the
holy
Mysteries
;
called
a
President
with
respect
to
any
preheminency
over
other
Ministers
and
Elders
,
like
a
Diocesan
Bishop
,
because
he
terms
him
only
He
that
presided
over
the
Brethren
of
that
Church
;
Pastor
gregis
,
praesident
probati
quique
Seniores
,
the
young
men
should
not
frequent
the
Houses
of
Widows
or
Virgins
,
unless
it
be
to
visit
them
,
and
let
them
do
this
in
the
company
of
the
Seniors
,
that
is
,
of
the
Bishop
,
or
,
if
need
be
,
of
the
Presbyters
.
Princeps
Sacerdotum
,
Jerusalem
,
Corinth
,
Ephesus
,
&c.
especially
in
times
of
Persecution
—
as
may
be
proved
by
a
Multiplication
of
Instances
;
but
yet
they
continued
one
Church
,
and
joyned
together
in
all
Acts
of
Church
Communion
properly
so
called
:
from
the
Multiplication
of
Believers
all
the
Difficulty
,
Whatever
Difficulty
may
seem
to
be
in
this
matter
,
yet
in
point
of
Fact
so
it
was
,
there
was
no
Church
before
the
end
of
the
second
Century
,
of
any
other
Species
,
Nature
,
or
Kind
,
but
a
particular
Congregational
Church
only
.
de
facto
unpleasing
Labour
.
not
all
,
not
,
it
may
be
,
half
,
not
sometimes
a
third
part
,
of
them
who
made
profession
of
the
truth
,
and
attended
unto
the
preaching
of
the
word
;
nay
,
many
of
whom
underwent
Martyrdom
,
were
admitted
as
compleat
Members
of
the
Church
,
unto
all
the
parts
of
its
Communion
.
Hence
there
were
many
,
who
,
upon
a
general
account
,
were
esteemed
Christians
,
and
that
justly
,
where
the
Churches
were
but
small
.
It
does
not
appear
,
that
in
the
next
Age
after
the
Apostles
the
Churches
were
any
where
so
increased
in
number
,
as
to
bear
the
least
proportion
with
the
Inhabitants
of
the
Cities
and
Towns
wherein
they
were
.
Smyrna
,
Vienna
,
as
that
it
was
scarcely
known
who
or
what
they
were
.
Vettius
Pagatus
,
coming
together
in
one
Dr.
O.
the
multiplication
into
more
Congregations
without
distinct
Officers
,
will
not
at
all
help
the
Cause
he
Dean
)
pleadeth
for
:
for
his
Diocesan
Church
consisteth
of
many
distinct
Churches
,
with
their
distinct
Officers
,
Order
,
and
Power
,
as
he
afterwards
describes
our
Parishes
to
do
under
one
Bishop
.
he
would
advantage
his
Cause
,
that
there
were
in
one
City
,
or
any
where
else
,
many
,
not
occasional
Assemblies
of
Christians
or
Church-members
,
but
many
stated
,
fixed
Churches
,
with
Officers
of
their
own
,
peculiarly
related
unto
them
,
intrusted
with
Church-power
and
Privileges
,
at
least
,
as
much
as
he
afterwards
pleads
to
be
in
our
Parochial
Churches
,
all
under
the
Government
of
one
single
Bishop
,
making
up
a
new
Church-state
,
beyond
that
of
particular
Congregations
,
by
their
relation
unto
him
,
as
their
common
Pastor
.
Jerusalem
,
Corinth
,
Ephesus
,
That
when
the
Christians
in
one
City
multiplyed
into
more
Congregations
,
they
did
make
new
and
distinct
Churches
.
distinct
Churches
in
the
same
City
was
the
thing
to
be
proved
,
This
was
not
the
thing
to
be
proved
,
nor
did
I
propose
it
to
Confirmation
,
nor
assert
it
,
but
have
proved
the
contrary
unto
the
end
of
the
second
Century
.
This
only
I
assert
,
that
every
Church
in
one
City
was
only
one
Church
,
and
nothing
is
offered
by
the
Dr.
to
the
contrary
,
yea
he
affirms
the
same
.
there
were
many
fixed
Churches
with
Officers
of
their
own
,
peculiarly
related
unto
them
—
all
under
the
Government
of
one
single
Bishop
,
there
were
many
Churches
planted
by
the
Apostles
in
very
small
Provinces
,
preaching
the
Word
through
Regions
and
Cities
,
they
appointed
the
first
fruits
,
or
first
converts
of
them
for
Bishops
and
Deacons
,
of
them
that
should
afterwards
believe
:
That
in
four
years
after
the
ascension
of
Christ
,
there
were
Churches
planted
in
all
Judea
,
Galilee
and
Samaria
,
which
was
so
short
a
time
after
the
preaching
of
the
Gospel
,
as
that
it
is
impossible
they
should
be
conceived
to
be
any
other
but
single
Congregations
.
The
Apostles
appointing
in
them
ordinary
Elders
and
Deacons
:
it
is
said
of
most
of
these
Churches
expresly
,
that
they
respectively
met
together
in
one
place
,
or
had
their
Assemblies
of
the
whole
Church
for
the
discharge
of
the
duties
required
of
them
,
which
is
peculiar
unto
Congregational
Churches
.
the
whole
multitude
was
silent
,
while
Barnabas
and
Saul
declared
what
signs
and
wonders
God
had
done
among
the
Gentiles
by
them
.
breaking
bread
from
house
to
house
.
The
multitude
must
needs
come
together
;
Thou
seest
Brother
how
many
thousand
of
the
Jews
there
are
which
believe
,
and
they
are
all
zealous
of
the
Law
;
that
the
multitude
must
come
together
.
The
twelve
called
the
multitude
of
the
Disciples
unto
them
;
Antioch
,
Acts
Corinth
,
1
Cor
.
If
therefore
the
whole
Church
be
come
together
into
one
place
—
when
ye
come
together
,
every
one
of
you
hath
a
whole
Church
meeting
together
,
v.
34.
Let
your
Women
keep
silence
in
the
in
the
Church
,
one
Church
the
meeting
together
of
the
whole
Church
.
in
one
place
,
if
therefore
the
whole
Church
be
come
together
into
one
place
;
The
Kings
of
the
Earth
stood
up
,
and
the
Rulers
were
gathered
together
{αβγδ}
against
the
Lord
and
against
his
Christ
,
for
of
a
truth
against
thy
Holy
Child
and
the
People
of
were
gathered
together
:
Pontius
Pilate
,
and
all
that
believed
were
together
(
{αβγδ}
)
and
had
all
things
common
:
Justin
Martyr
,
Tertullian
,
where
those
who
studied
curious
Arts
burnt
their
Magical
Books
,
and
they
counted
the
price
of
them
,
and
found
it
Fifty
thousand
pieces
of
Silver
,
so
mightily
grew
the
word
of
God
and
prevailed
:
that
all
they
which
dwelt
in
heard
the
word
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
both
Jews
and
Greeks
,
numerous
multitude
,
Justin
Martyr
That
on
the
day
called
Sunday
,
all
that
dwell
in
the
Cities
or
Countries
about
,
meet
together
in
one
place
.
Justin
Martyr
Justin
Martyr
Justin
Martyr
,
On
the
day
called
Sunday
,
there
is
a
Meeting
of
all
that
dwell
in
the
Towns
and
Fields
,
or
Villages
about
;
Christiana
factio
,
Christian
Religion
,
Christian
Faction
,
inter
licitas
Factiones
,
Apol
.
cap
.
Corpus
sumus
de
conscientia
Religionis
,
&
disciplinae
unitate
,
&
spei
foedere
:
We
are
a
Body
or
Society
,
united
in
a
consent
of
Religion
,
unity
of
discipline
,
and
Covenant
of
hope
.
Coimus
ad
Deuns
quasi
manu
facta
precationibus
ambiamus
;
We
meet
together
,
that
with
united
force
we
may
obtain
the
favour
of
God
by
our
prayers
.
In
Coetum
&
Congregationem
,
We
meet
in
an
Assembly
or
Congregation
;
Tert
.
lays
the
foundation
of
Churches
in
their
Meetings
,
in
the
same
Assembly
or
Congregation
:
Though
we
have
risen
but
of
late
among
you
,
yet
we
have
filled
all
places
with
our
numbers
,
your
Cities
,
Castles
,
Forts
,
Councils
,
Camps
,
Tribes
,
Palaces
,
Senate
,
Judicatures
;
we
leave
only
your
Temples
to
your selves
;
Did
not
their
Religion
teach
them
rather
to
be
killed
than
to
kill
?
that
they
could
revenge
themselves
on
them
without
rebelling
;
for
if
such
a
vast
number
of
men
should
but
break
company
with
them
,
and
depart
into
some
remote
corner
of
the
World
,
the
loss
of
so
many
Citizens
would
confound
their
Empire
,
and
punish
them
only
by
forsaking
them
;
they
would
certainly
be
afraid
of
their
own
solitude
,
and
that
great
silence
of
all
things
,
and
the
lethargick
stupor
,
as
it
were
,
of
a
dead
World
.
Justin
Martyr
Athens
,
Corinth
the
Democratical
Government
of
the
Church
,
I
never
thought
,
I
never
wrote
any
such
thing
:
I
do
believe
that
the
Authoritative
Rule
and
Government
of
the
Church
was
,
is
,
and
ought
to
be
in
the
Elders
and
Rulers
of
it
,
being
an
act
of
the
Office-Power
,
committed
to
them
by
Christ
himself
.
Howbeit
my
judgment
is
,
that
they
ought
not
to
rule
the
Church
with
Force
,
Tyranny
,
and
corporal
Penalties
,
or
without
their
own
consent
.
That
it
is
very
unlikely
that
the
People
would
forego
their
Interest
in
the
Government
of
the
Churches
,
if
ever
they
had
any
such
thing
,
without
great
noise
and
trouble
;
for
Government
is
so
nice
and
tender
a
thing
,
that
every
one
is
so
much
concerned
for
his
share
in
it
,
that
men
are
not
easily
induced
to
part
with
it
.
No
other
interest
or
share
in
the
Government
is
ascribed
by
us
unto
the
People
,
but
that
they
may
be
ruled
by
their
own
consent
.
—
But
from
any
engagement
on
their
minds
,
from
the
sweetness
of
Government
,
wherein
their
Concern
principally
consists
in
an
understanding
voluntary
obedience
unto
the
Commands
of
Christ
,
they
had
nothing
of
it
.
good
report
from
those
who
are
without
,
that
it
is
sufficiently
manifest
from
his
Epistles
,
that
the
Church
of
wherein
he
did
preside
,
was
so
far
a
particular
Church
as
that
the
whole
body
or
Fraternity
of
it
,
was
admitted
unto
all
advice
in
things
of
Common
Concernment
unto
the
whole
Church
,
and
allowed
the
exercise
of
their
Power
and
Liberty
in
choosing
or
refusing
the
Officers
that
were
to
be
set
over
them
.
that
they
only
are
suited
unto
the
ends
of
Christ
in
the
Institution
of
his
Church
,
it
is
meet
and
accommodated
unto
all
the
ends
which
he
designed
in
his
Institution
of
a
Church
.
Praesential
Communion
,
Present
Communion
must
all
meet
at
once
in
one
place
,
but
that
as
Neighbours
and
Citizens
may
have
Personal
Converse
and
meetings
of
some
at
one
time
and
some
at
another
,
(
which
,
is
the
common
and
strongest
Objection
against
from
the
multitude
of
Converts
at
that
they
could
not
be
one
particular
Church
,
so
as
to
meet
in
one
place
:
a
competent
number
of
private
Christians
,
as
the
guided
part
associated
by
consent
,
for
Personal
,
Presential
,
Holy
Communion
,
in
Holy
Doctrine
,
Holy
Worship
of
God
,
Holy
Order
,
and
Holy
Conversation
,
sometimes
assemble
apart
by
reason
of
Impediments
,
age
,
distance
,
weather
,
Persecution
,
that
the
lowest
true
Political
Church
,
must
be
neighbours
united
for
Personal
Communion
,
O.
from
the
duties
of
Church-members
,
which
are
,
1.
To
assemble
together
for
Gods
Publick
Service
.
2.
To
have
the
same
Pastors
that
are
among
them
and
over
them
,
and
Preach
to
them
the
word
of
God
,
and
go
before
them
by
the
example
of
a
Holy
Life
.
3.
To
send
to
their
Pastors
when
they
are
Sick
to
Pray
with
them
,
and
to
advise
them
.
4.
To
admonish
a
Brother
that
offendeth
,
to
prove
,
That
the
nature
of
the
primary
Episcopacy
,
(
or
particular
,
if
the
word
primary
be
cavilled
at
)
is
such
as
cannot
be
done
in
absence
,
nor
by
Substitutes
,
in
any
of
its
proper
parts
,
but
only
by
a
present
Bishop
or
Pastor
himself
.
That
a
Bishop
may
plow
his
Land
,
or
build
his
House
,
or
saddle
his
Horse
,
by
another
,
and
may
appoint
another
to
toll
the
Bell
to
Church
,
chief
publick
Reprover
,
chief
publick
Excommunicator
of
the
obstinately
wicked
,
and
absolver
of
the
penitent
,
and
to
give
the
blessing
to
the
People
.
Substitute
,
or
Agent
,
or
Official
,
the
same
Order
with
the
Bishop
,
if
he
be
,
then
he
grants
all
,
because
it
grants
him
all
;
an
inferiour
Order
,
either
the
Bishop
giveth
him
power
and
obligation
to
do
the
proper
work
of
a
Bishop
,
or
not
;
if
not
,
he
is
not
hereby
enabled
to
do
it
;
if
yea
,
then
he
hath
thereby
made
him
a
Bishop
;
for
to
be
a
Bishop
is
nothing
else
,
but
to
have
Authority
and
Obligation
to
do
the
work
of
a
Bishop
;
but
if
it
be
an
accidental
,
or
a
common
work
,
which
another
may
do
,
it
is
not
that
in
question
,
nor
do
we
need
the
Office
of
a
Bishop
for
it
.
accidental
and
common
works
,
plowing
and
building
Houses
,
tolling
the
Bell
to
Church
,
the
proper
work
of
a
Bishop
,
B.
Nothing
but
commissioning
others
is
the
proper
work
of
the
Episcopal
Order
.
then
any
ordinarily
exercise
the
whole
power
of
the
Keys
upon
the
Flocks
;
he
may
excommunicate
and
absolve
publickly
,
as
an
act
common
to
his
Flock
with
the
Bishop
,
if
it
please
the
Bishop
to
give
him
power
,
which
he
may
do
without
making
him
a
Bishop
.
enquires
,
Whether
God
be
not
the
maker
of
the
Office
?
and
whether
God
only
(
describing
it
)
give
not
all
the
power
by
way
of
Law
,
Charter
and
Institution
,
and
the
Bishop
give
it
not
only
by
way
of
Ministerial
Solemnization
and
Investiture
?
Whether
he
,
who
is
duely
called
to
the
Pastoral
Office
,
which
God
only
made
and
described
,
must
not
(
in
season
)
do
all
the
Works
of
that
Office
,
whether
men
commission
him
or
not
?
or
whether
at
least
he
any
more
need
the
Bishop's
Commission
for
Church-Government
,
Excommunication
and
Absolution
,
than
for
preaching
and
celebrating
the
Lord's
Supper
,
seeing
both
are
now
confess'd
Acts
,
common
to
the
Order
of
the
and
the
Bishop
?
But
is
all
giving
of
Power
to
another
proper
to
the
Bishop's
Order
?
Then
the
Minister
cannot
give
his
Clerk
power
to
choose
the
Psalm
or
Tune
.
But
may
not
a
Bishop
,
if
he
please
,
also
give
power
to
the
to
ordain
,
and
to
give
other
men
power
?
is
not
Church-Discipline
the
exercise
of
the
power
of
the
Keys
?
If
then
the
power
of
the
Keys
may
be
exercised
by
the
when-ever
the
Bishops
please
,
it
seems
it
is
common
to
them
with
him
,
as
well
as
Sacraments
,
and
therefore
belongeth
not
to
him
as
Bishop
,
but
as
a
if
the
commanding
another
to
do
an
Office-work
,
be
all
that
is
proper
to
the
Bishop
,
I
ask
(
says
Mr.
whether
any
thing
there
be
proper
to
him
?
and
so
whether
we
must
have
such
an
Office
?
for
may
not
the
King
command
the
Minister
to
do
all
the
Work
which
belongeth
to
his
Function
?
may
he
not
appoint
Magistrates
,
and
make
Laws
to
command
it
?
truely
says
,
that
that
saying
,
that
what
a
man
doth
by
another
,
he
seemeth
to
do
by
himself
,
belongeth
only
to
those
actions
,
whose
nearest
efficient
cause
is
not
defined
by
the
Law
,
but
sure
when
God
made
the
Pastoral
Office
,
he
meant
,
that
the
Pastors
called
to
it
,
should
do
the
work
,
and
not
only
appoint
other
men
to
do
it
.
And
I
would
know
,
whether
the
work
of
a
(
as
to
consecrate
and
celebrate
the
Sacraments
)
may
be
done
by
one
that
is
no
if
not
,
(
as
all
say
not
)
then
I
ask
,
Whether
the
Bishop's
work
or
the
be
most
sacred
?
If
the
,
then
his
Office
is
more
sacred
;
if
the
Bishop's
,
(
or
both
alike
)
then
that
Bishop's
work
may
no
more
be
done
than
the
local
,
personal
,
presential
Communion
,
Gentiles
;
that
was
Bishop
of
the
of
the
Nevertheless
,
whereto
we
have
already
attained
,
let
us
walk
by
the
same
rule
,
let
us
mind
the
same
thing
,
evil
workers
,
Thessalonians
.
For
ye
brethren
became
followers
of
the
Churches
of
God
,
which
in
Judaea
are
in
Christ
Jesus
:
for
ye
also
have
suffered
the
like
things
of
your
Country-men
,
even
as
they
have
of
the
Jews
,
who
both
killed
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
their
own
Prophets
,
and
have
persecuted
us
,
and
they
please
not
God
,
and
are
contrary
to
all
men
,
forbidding
us
to
speak
to
the
Gentiles
,
that
they
might
be
saved
;
forbidding
us
to
speak
to
the
And
I
Brethren
,
if
I
yet
Preach
Circumcision
,
why
do
I
yet
suffer
Persecution
?
then
is
the
offence
of
the
Cross
ceased
.
the
Concision
I
would
they
were
even
cut
off
which
trouble
who
acquiescing
in
the
Liberty
of
the
Gentiles
,
declared
by
the
Apostles
yet
judged
themselves
,
and
all
other
circumcised
Jews
,
obliged
to
the
observation
of
the
Law
,
and
its
Institutions
.
yea
it
is
judged
that
according
to
their
different
apprehensions
of
these
things
,
there
were
two
Churches
at
one
of
the
Circumcision
,
the
other
of
the
Gentiles
,
walking
in
a
distinct
Communion
each
by
themselves
.
however
there
was
a
different
rule
of
this
kind
between
the
Churches
of
yet
was
there
no
Schism
between
these
Churches
,
but
a
constant
Communion
in
Faith
and
Love
;
in
forgetting
those
things
which
are
behind
,
reaching
forth
unto
those
things
which
are
before
,
let
us
therefore
as
many
as
are
perfect
be
thus
minded
,
and
if
in
any
thing
you
be
otherwise
minded
,
Moses
,
God
shall
reveal
even
this
unto
you
:
Nevertheless
whereto
we
have
already
attained
,
let
us
walk
by
the
same
rule
,
let
us
mind
the
same
thing
.
whereto
we
have
attained
being
otherwise
minded
,
whereto
we
have
attained
,
let
us
walk
by
the
same
rule
,
let
us
mind
the
same
thing
.
let
us
walk
by
the
same
rule
,
let
us
mind
the
same
thing
.
to
receive
those
who
are
weak
in
the
Faith
,
that
the
Kingdom
of
God
,
is
not
meat
and
drink
,
but
righteousness
and
peace
and
joy
in
the
Holy
Ghost
,
for
he
that
in
these
things
serveth
Christ
,
is
acceptable
to
God
and
approved
of
men
:
Evil
workers
the
Concision
,
wishes
that
they
were
even
cut
off
;
if
it
reach
our
case
,
it
must
be
such
as
requires
things
to
be
observed
,
as
were
never
Divinely
appointed
,
as
National
Churches
,
Ceremonies
,
and
modes
of
Worship
.
to
observe
those
things
which
although
they
be
not
particularly
commanded
by
God
,
yet
are
enjoyned
by
lawful
Authority
,
provided
that
they
be
not
unlawful
in
themselves
,
nor
repugnant
to
the
word
of
God
:
whatever
other
differences
there
may
be
between
us
.
that
there
is
no
other
reasons
of
Separation
because
of
the
Terms
of
our
Communion
,
than
what
was
from
the
beginning
of
the
Reformation
.
that
although
the
present
reasons
for
Separation
would
bave
held
from
the
beginning
of
the
Reformation
,
yet
no
such
thing
was
then
practised
,
or
allowed
by
those
,
who
were
then
most
zealous
for
Reformation
:
As
to
the
things
imposed
now
which
were
not
them
.
The
Vestry
Act.
2.
The
Act
of
Uniformity
.
3.
The
Corporation
Act
,
all
referring
to
renouncing
the
Covenant
and
Obligation
of
it
for
themselves
and
others
,
Re-ordination
was
not
required
in
former
times
,
Assent
and
Consent
was
not
then
required
:
the
false
Rule
for
finding
the
new
Doctrine
of
the
undoubted
Salvation
by
God's
Word
,
that
baptized
dying
Infants
are
saved
:
the
word
Pastor
,
as
applied
to
Parish-Ministers
,
distinct
from
Curates
,
blotted
out
of
most
places
in
the
Liturgie
:
Act
to
banish
Ministers
five
miles
from
all
Cities
,
were
Ministers
,
and
Corporations
,
and
Vestries
,
bound
to
swear
or
subscribe
,
that
it
was
unlawful
on
any
pretence
whatsoever
to
resist
any
commissionated
by
the
King
.
Search
for
a
Schismatick
;
in
the
drift
and
tendency
of
these
Impositions
:
Another
difference
is
in
the
Effects
.
open
Preaching
and
gathering
Assemblies
by
non-Conformists
,
would
have
greatly
offended
the
Prince
;
but
our
King
by
his
Declaration
at
and
his
three
first
Declarations
,
and
by
his
Licenses
and
Connivence
,
shewed
such
wisdom
and
clemency
,
as
intimated
less
displeasure
at
our
liberty
:
would
have
deprived
most
of
the
non-Conformists
of
their
hopes
of
publick
liberty
in
the
Parish-Churches
,
which
most
of
them
enjoyed
;
but
we
had
neither
possession
nor
expectation
of
such
a
thing
.
would
have
hindred
and
hazarded
the
progress
of
the
Reformation
;
but
our
Preaching
hath
done
more
to
stop
the
progress
of
the
Syncretism
,
or
of
Popery
.
Familism
,
Anabaptism
,
Quakerism
,
few
of
the
most
ignorant
that
needed
them
,
would
then
have
left
their
Parish-Churches
to
hear
non-Conformists
in
private
,
but
now
many
will
come
to
us
that
cannot
get
into
Parish-Churches
:
from
the
aggravation
of
Conformity
,
as
in
the
Church
that
we
must
communicate
with
:
That
the
Pastors
and
Vestries
of
our
conforming
Churches
are
a
company
of
perjured
Villains
,
Canon
now
excommunicates
,
all
who
profess
themselves
non-Conformists
:
Ministers
were
not
before
cast
out
,
which
now
tempts
the
People
to
forsake
our
Communion
:
when
one
Bishop
cast
any
out
,
some
other
usually
would
endure
them
;
but
now
it
was
not
so
:
from
the
things
which
give
them
fuller
cause
for
their
Preaching
and
Assemblies
,
We
saw
the
Kingdom
,
though
under
Usurpers
,
engaged
by
vow
,
practice
,
and
about
16
years
possession
and
custom
,
to
another
way
;
and
who
could
expect
,
that
a
Law
should
presently
change
them
all
,
and
assure
them
of
Absolution
.
they
had
been
engaged
by
vow
,
practice
,
and
about
16
years
possession
and
custom
,
to
another
way
?
Rome
;
Linus
,
Clemens
,
Cletus
,
Anacletus
,
a
Church
to
be
a
People
united
to
their
Bishop
,
and
a
Flock
keeping
close
to
their
Pastor
.
a
dividing
and
sharing
the
People
with
the
Bishop
,
that
is
,
separating
the
Sheep
from
their
Pastor
,
and
Children
from
their
Parent
.
Novation
,
Arrian
,
Donatist
,
constant
Communion
;
Logical
strictness
,
that
he
is
none
of
the
Disputers
of
this
World
,
who
deceive
men
with
vain
Philosophy
;
right
and
liberty
,
the
power
of
consenting
the
right
of
consenting
;
power
of
consenting
in
the
People
,
and
power
in
Rulers
are
not
univocal
but
equivocal
terms
:
But
the
word
(
Choice
)
instead
of
(
Consent
)
is
somewhat
more
crooked
,
(
crooked
)
for
(
choice
)
ordinarily
includeth
the
first
nominating
vote
.
Logical
strictness
People
are
no
judges
who
is
fit
to
be
,
and
shall
be
a
Minister
of
Christ
.
The
Supream
Civil
Governour
is
the
Judge
,
whom
he
must
countenance
maintain
and
tolerate
;
The
disposal
of
the
Tythes
and
Temples
is
in
the
power
of
the
Prince
and
Patron
by
his
grant
:
The
Princes
Power
is
not
absolute
but
under
Christ
:
If
the
Tythes
and
Temples
were
given
for
the
Pastors
of
the
Churches
,
the
Magistrate
is
bound
to
give
them
to
such
as
are
lawfully
called
to
be
such
Pastors
,
and
not
by
the
advantage
of
his
trust
overthrow
the
way
of
entrance
instituted
by
Christ
:
if
they
were
devoted
to
God
,
God
is
the
Proprietor
,
and
it
is
Sacriledge
to
alienate
them
,
and
an
intolerable
ill
disposal
is
alienation
.
an
intolerable
ill
disposal
is
alienation
;
confesseth
I
deny
not
the
Magistrates
or
Patrons
power
of
their
own
gift
(
the
case
of
Sacrilege
I
leave
to
their
Consciences
.
)
whom
he
must
countenance
,
maintain
and
tolerate
,
right
and
liberty
Pleading
the
Peoples
cause
against
Magistrates
,
Patrons
and
Laws
.
I
have
oft
said
,
that
mutual
consent
is
necessary
to
the
being
of
the
relation
of
Pastor
and
Flock
.
And
though
sometimes
the
Rulers
imposition
,
and
the
Patrons
choice
,
may
make
it
the
Peoples
duty
in
prudence
to
consent
,
when
the
good
preponderates
the
hurt
(
not
else
)
yet
till
they
consent
the
relation
is
not
existent
.
the
People
are
not
Judges
,
who
is
fit
to
be
,
and
shall
be
a
Minister
of
Christ
:
But
the
Ordainers
and
the
Person
himself
conjunct
,
(
i.e.
is
evident
from
Scripture
instances
of
all
that
were
ordained
.
2.
From
the
nature
of
the
thing
:
who
is
supposed
so
fit
to
judge
as
men
and
Seniors
of
the
same
Office
?
Who
but
Physicians
are
fit
to
judg
,
who
is
meet
to
be
a
licensed
Physician
?
And
who
but
Philosophers
judge
of
Graduates
and
Professors
in
Philosophy
?
He
that
refuseth
you
,
refuseth
me
,
and
he
that
refuseth
me
,
refuseth
him
that
sent
me
?
it
is
impossible
,
that
the
Pastoral
Office
should
be
exercised
upon
Dissenters
;
therefore
their
Consent
is
necessary
.
A
Patient
may
be
drencht
like
a
Horse
,
and
crammed
like
fatted
Fowl
,
and
so
may
have
a
Physician
against
his
will
,
but
a
soul
cannot
use
Pastoral
Helps
unwillingly
.
to
obey
those
who
are
set
over
them
in
the
Lord
;
that
there
is
no
Scripture-instance
(
of
the
Peoples
being
Judge
,
who
is
fit
to
be
,
and
shall
be
a
Minister
of
Christ
)
in
all
that
were
ordained
.
Parochial
Bishop
)
because
the
People
refuse
him
,
he
shall
have
the
Honour
and
Office
of
a
Bishop
,
not
troubling
the
peace
of
the
Church
;
which
plainly
saith
,
what
I
have
oft
said
,
that
the
People
have
no
power
to
hinder
any
from
being
Ministers
or
Bishops
indefinitely
in
the
universal
Church
,
but
only
to
judge
whether
he
shall
be
theirs
,
whereas
the
Ordainers
had
power
in
both
Cases
.
indefinitely
in
the
universal
Church
,
that
the
main
ground
of
the
peoples
interest
was
founded
upon
the
Apostles
Canon
,
that
a
Bishop
must
be
blameless
,
and
of
good
report
.
Seniores
,
honorem
istum
non
pretio
sed
testimonio
adepti
,
they
obtained
this
honour
not
by
purchase
,
but
by
testimony
:
that
more
light
should
put
out
my
eyes
,
propriety
is
in
order
of
nature
antecedent
to
Regiment
common
safety
and
good
.
self-government
(
as
to
power
and
obligation
)
is
antecedent
to
humane
publick
government
in
order
of
nature
,
that
is
,
has
a
more
immutable
right
,
which
publick
government
does
not
destroy
,
but
regulate
.
6.
Parents
government
is
antecedent
to
Princes
,
and
Princes
cannot
take
it
from
them
,
nor
disoblige
their
children
,
but
self-government
is
more
natural
than
Parents
,
and
Parents
and
Princes
must
help
it
,
but
not
destroy
it
:
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
sit
seat
,
all
therefore
whatsoever
they
bid
you
observe
,
that
observe
and
do
,
but
do
not
ye
after
their
works
,
for
they
say
,
and
do
not
.
it
is
natural
,
to
generate
the
like
,
and
for
men
to
do
,
and
chuse
as
they
Ib.
p.
are
,
and
as
their
Interest
leads
them
:
Ib.
p.
who
is
fit
,
and
shall
be
a
Minister
of
Christ
,
be
so
fit
to
judge
as
men
and
Seniors
of
the
same
Office
,
as
Physicians
are
fit
to
judge
,
who
is
meet
to
be
a
Licensed
Physician
,
gain
or
loss
is
more
the
Patients
;
than
the
Imposers
:
it
is
their
own
souls
,
that
are
like
to
be
profited
and
saved
by
needful
helps
,
or
lost
for
want
of
them
,
and
therefore
it
most
concerns
themselves
to
know
what
helps
they
chuse
.
the
Churches
Pastor
,
but
not
the
refusers
:
Scripture
and
experience
tells
us
,
that
God
worketh
usually
according
to
the
aptitude
of
means
and
instruments
;
and
learned
experienced
Physicians
cure
more
than
the
ignorant
,
rash
and
slothful
;
and
good
Scholars
make
their
Pulpits
more
learned
,
than
the
ignorant
do
;
and
skilful
,
able
,
experienced
,
holy
Pastors
convert
and
edifie
much
more
than
ignorant
and
vicious
men
.
And
means
must
accordingly
be
chosen
.
13.
If
the
Pastoral
work
skilfully
and
faithfully
done
,
be
needful
,
it
must
not
be
neglected
,
whoever
forbid
it
.
If
it
be
not
needful
,
what
is
the
Church
of
good
for
,
more
than
Infidels
,
or
at
least
than
and
for
what
are
they
maintained
with
Tythes
,
Glebe
,
and
all
the
Dignities
,
and
Honours
,
and
Wealth
they
have
?
and
for
what
do
men
so
much
contend
for
them
?
it
is
hard
for
a
rich
man
to
be
saved
,
and
few
of
them
prove
good
:
that
the
Clergy
themselves
do
not
say
,
that
all
the
Patrons
in
are
wise
and
pious
;
many
Parliaments
have
by
our
Church
men
been
deeply
accused
,
and
most
Parliament-men
I
think
are
Patrons
:
others
say
,
most
Patrons
not
chosen
to
Parliaments
,
are
worse
:
some
Preachers
complain
of
great
men
for
fornication
,
drunkenness
,
excess
,
idleness
,
yea
,
Atheism
and
Infidelity
:
If
many
or
any
be
such
,
are
they
likely
to
chuse
such
Pastors
,
as
all
godly
men
may
trust
in
so
great
a
case
?
or
would
not
such
Princes
chuse
such
Bishops
?
generality
of
the
most
religious
and
sober
people
of
the
Land
(
alwayes
excepting
the
King
and
Parliment
,
and
those
that
must
be
still
excepted
.
)
it
is
known
by
experience
,
that
learning
and
great
worth
doth
as
light
so
reveal
it self
to
humane
nature
,
that
usually
most
of
those
,
who
are
loth
to
be
holy
themselves
,
would
have
a
Saint
and
an
able
man
.
the
obligation
to
please
God
,
and
obtain
salvation
,
and
escape
Sin
and
Hell
is
so
great
,
that
no
man
is
to
pretend
publick
good
,
or
the
will
of
man
against
it
:
and
self-government
(
as
to
power
and
obligation
is
antecedent
to
humane
publick
government
in
order
of
nature
:
and
publick
government
doth
not
destroy
it
,
but
regulate
it
;
and
therefore
is
not
for
destruction
,
but
edification
.
The
end
of
self-government
is
so
much
to
please
God
,
and
save
our
souls
,
that
no
man
can
on
pretence
of
humane
government
disoblige
us
from
it
.
that
no
man
is
to
pretend
publick
good
and
the
will
of
man
against
this
;
the
obligation
to
chuse
our
own
Pastors
in
order
to
please
God
and
obtain
salvation
,
and
escape
sin
and
Hell
,
is
so
great
,
that
no
man
is
to
pretend
publick
good
,
or
the
will
of
man
against
it
;
who
they
believe
is
like
to
kill
them
by
ignorance
,
error
,
or
treachery
,
Plea
for
Peace
,
Take
heed
how
ye
hear
,
beware
of
false
Prophets
,
and
their
leaven
,
the
leaven
of
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
Beware
of
the
concision
,
A
man
that
is
an
heretick
avoid
;
Let
no
man
deceive
you
:
Those
that
cause
divisions
and
offences
contrary
to
the
doctrine
ye
have
learned
avoid
—
from
such
turn
away
:
the
same
Council
by
humane
wisdom
decreed
,
That
whatsoever
alteration
the
Imperial
power
maketh
on
any
City
,
the
Ecclesiastical
order
follow
it
:
Which
,
is
the
way
by
which
humane
order
overthrew
divine
order
and
institutions
:
though
by
servility
they
were
for
images
,
yet
they
held
to
the
old
Church
Canons
for
Elections
,
Had
this
been
true
,
it
would
not
much
move
me
,
that
these
two
Councils
that
set
up
Image-worship
,
and
shewed
much
wickedness
,
should
contradict
the
Apostolical
and
Catholick
practice
and
constitutions
.
I
have
formerly
named
elder
Testimonies
not
denied
,
Plea
for
Peace
Clemens
Romanus
,
Clemens
Romanus
consensu
universae
ecclesiae
,
the
whole
Church
being
pleased
with
it
,
(
i.e.
and
what
wonder
then
was
it
,
that
those
who
were
intrusted
by
God
in
Christ
with
this
work
did
accordingly
do
it
:
by
other
eminent
men
Cyprian
,
that
the
people
had
the
greatest
power
to
chuse
worthy
Bishops
,
or
to
refuse
the
unworthy
.
Alexander
Severus
,
proposed
the
names
of
his
civil
officers
to
the
people
,
to
hear
what
they
had
to
object
against
them
;
for
the
chief
chusing
power
of
the
worthy
is
more
than
testimony
of
fact
:
these
words
signifie
more
than
testimony
[
by
publick
judgement
and
testimony
be
approved
worthy
and
meet
]
That
the
Bishop
Cypr
.
Ep.
should
be
chosen
,
the
people
being
present
and
looking
on
,
and
be
found
worthy
by
publick
judgement
and
testimony
,
(
that
by
the
suffrage
of
the
whole
fraternity
the
Episcopacy
be
delivered
to
him
)
the
suffrage
of
the
fraternity
,
and
the
judgement
of
the
Bishops
,
that
that
may
be
a
just
and
regular
ordination
,
which
is
examined
by
the
judgement
and
suffrage
of
all
.
the
ninth
and
tenth
Canons
of
the
first
great
Council
nullifie
the
very
ordination
of
scandalous
uncapable
men
:
Arab
.
Can
.
Si
populo
placebit
,
is
made
the
condition
of
the
Episcopal
relation
:
cum
consensa
populi
,
Dionysius
Exiguns
,
Isidore
,
Mercator
,
Ruffinus
,
and
,
c
.
the
peoples
disagreement
,
the
said
people
must
take
the
most
blameless
.
Greek
c
.
but
if
the
election
be
canonically
made
with
the
consent
of
the
Arch-Bishop
and
Bishops
,
and
some
few
of
the
people
oppose
it
,
if
they
please
,
they
may
determine
it
by
the
majority
of
votes
among
the
people
:
most
blameless
;
of
the
Council
under
(
no
Bishop
shall
ordain
any
Clerk
,
but
with
all
the
Church
united
.
)
cum
omni
adunatâ
ecclesiâ
plebe
praesente
Magistrates
or
people
are
Judges
who
is
fit
to
be
,
and
shall
be
a
Minister
of
Christ
in
general
,
but
the
Ordainers
and
the
Person
himself
conjunct
.
Clemens
Romanus
,
distinguishes
between
giving
the
power
,
and
concurring
with
other
causes
to
give
a
receptivity
to
the
Person
that
must
have
it
,
the
peoples
consent
is
the
of
receptivity
and
capacity
:
But
what
signifie
these
words
(
the
ordination
of
our
Collegue
by
the
suffrage
of
the
whole
fraternity
,
and
by
the
judgement
of
the
Bishops
)
is
not
this
as
much
power
as
we
plead
for
?
It
was
not
usual
to
ordain
and
the
ordainers
did
two
things
at
once
.
1.
Judge
absolutely
who
shall
be
a
Minister
of
Christ
.
2.
Judge
with
the
Church
to
which
he
was
ordained
(
elders
and
people
)
who
was
fit
for
that
Church
,
and
should
be
theirs
:
Dean
,
that
the
main
ground
of
the
peoples
interest
was
founded
on
the
Apostles
Canon
,
That
a
Bishop
must
be
blameless
and
of
good
report
.
that
the
people
upon
this
assuming
the
power
of
elections
,
caused
great
disturbance
and
disorder
in
the
Church
.
And
yet
for
all
these
disorders
,
the
Church
deprived
not
the
people
of
their
priviledge
:
Greg
.
Nazianzen
,
Hierom
,
Origen
,
the
aspiring
Prelates
seeking
Patriarchates
and
B●shopricks
,
became
as
so
many
Captains
at
War
,
and
gathered
Monks
,
Clergy
and
people
to
strive
and
fight
for
them
.
that
to
prevent
these
inconveniencies
many
Bishops
were
appointed
without
the
choice
of
the
people
,
and
Canons
were
made
for
the
regulation
of
Elections
.
Craftily
said
!
he
saith
not
[
without
the
consent
of
the
people
]
but
[
the
election
]
And
he
saith
not
,
that
the
Canons
took
away
either
consenting
or
electing
suffrages
,
but
that
they
regulated
them
,
yes
they
over
and
over
confirmed
them
.
Does
the
Dr.
think
that
the
Presbyters
choice
excludeth
the
peoples
?
Will
he
conclude
,
that
whenever
the
History
nameth
not
the
peoples
choice
,
it
is
left
out
?
Will
he
perswade
us
,
that
when
the
people
are
not
the
chusers
,
they
are
not
necessarily
the
consenters
or
refusers
?
that
when
shewed
himself
again
,
the
Brethren
(
no
doubt
the
Laity
,
intreated
him
to
enjoy
his
Bishoprick
again
?
Austin
,
Paulus
de
facto
Dean
,
that
if
one
be
ordained
Bishop
,
and
go
not
to
the
Parish
because
the
people
refuse
him
,
he
shall
have
the
honour
and
office
of
a
Bishop
,
not
troubling
the
peace
of
the
Church
,
that
this
rather
proves
the
peoples
power
,
that
so
long
after
by
an
Emperour
the
poorer
sort
were
restrained
;
de
facto
,
Canon
of
Laodicea
,
excluded
the
common
people
from
chusing
any
into
the
Clergy
,
quod
non
sit
permittendum
turbis
electiones
eorum
facere
,
qui
sunt
ad
sacerdotium
provehendi
:
that
it
must
not
be
allowed
to
the
multitude
to
chuse
into
the
Clergy
:
it
is
not
sufferable
to
chuse
by
tumults
.
that
the
second
restrained
the
election
only
to
Bishops
,
which
was
consirmed
by
following
Councils
in
the
Greek
Church
:
England
:
that
if
any
Bishop
use
the
Secular
Magistrate
to
obtain
by
them
a
Church
,
let
him
be
deposed
and
separated
,
and
all
that
communicate
with
him
.
What
the
Church
of
who
is
the
constitutive
Regent
head
of
it
;
I
do
believe
there
were
Christian
Churches
before
Christian
Princes
,
that
there
are
Christian
Churches
under
Christian
Princes
,
and
will
be
such
,
if
there
were
none
left
;
of
the
Peaceable
Design
That
to
be
Still
.
p.
particular
or
universal
is
of
essential
consideration
to
Christs
Church
,
but
to
be
national
is
of
accidental
consideration
:
That
all
the
people
of
the
Land
should
be
Christian
,
and
the
Magistrate
also
is
(
I
say
)
an
accidental
thing
to
the
Church
,
which
may
exist
where
that
is
not
:
upon
which
account
though
the
Magistrate
be
none
of
Christs
proper
Officers
,
yet
may
he
be
head
of
his
Church
,
and
constitutive
Head
of
it
,
as
under
his
dominions
,
because
he
is
Head
not
in
any
essential
,
but
in
this
accidental
consideration
of
it
:
not
being
a
Church
in
an
essential
,
but
accidental
consideration
,
that
the
question
is
about
Church
Policy
,
or
a
Political
form
,
not
of
a
meer
community
of
Christians
:
What
is
the
constitutive
Regent
head
of
the
Church
of
that
they
may
know
what
the
National
Church
of
is
,
which
they
must
obey
,
and
from
which
they
are
said
to
separate
?
We
deny
any
necessity
of
such
a
Constitutive
Regent
part
,
or
one
formal
Ecclesiastical
Head
as
essential
to
a
National
Church
.
Peaceable
Design
If
ever
any
Boy
in
the
higher
form
at
School
,
was
posed
by
his
Master
,
the
Doctor
here
is
posed
,
who
is
indeed
in
Mr.
hands
,
no
other
than
Still
.
p.
such
a
one
,
when
he
takes
him
in
such
a
point
,
where
his
Books
and
polite
style
do
not
serve
him
.
The
Author
is
no
Courtly
Writer
,
he
doth
not
powder
nor
dress
his
discourses
;
he
writes
neither
with
Oy●
nor
Gall
,
but
with
plain
Vulgar
Ink
,
what
he
thinks
he
speaks
openly
and
honestly
without
any
respect
of
Persons
.
the
Political
form
of
a
Church
,
pars
regens
,
pars
subdita
,
a
constitutive
regent
head
.
Many
Churches
associated
for
mutual
help
and
concord
is
a
Church
only
in
a
loose
sense
:
those
that
are
constituted
of
one
Regent
and
a
subdite
part
are
called
Churches
in
a
Political
proper
sense
.
there
is
no
Governour
,
where
there
is
no
supream
in
his
place
and
kind
.
—
It
's
no
body
political
without
one
common
Governour
,
Natural
or
Collective
,
Monarchical
,
Aristocratical
,
Democratical
.
that
all
the
Bishps
are
Governours
,
and
all
together
govern
the
whole
?
but
not
as
a
whole
or
Church
—
unless
your
Bishops
are
united
in
one
or
Aristocracy
,
they
may
rule
their
several
Churches
,
but
they
make
not
one
common
Government
for
the
National
Church
as
such
.
it
shall
not
be
so
among
you
,
Peaceable
Design
That
there
is
a
government
in
the
Church
of
I
hope
the
Dr.
does
not
doubt
:
Where
there
is
a
government
established
,
there
must
be
a
Political
Society
;
every
political
body
consists
of
a
Pars
Imperans
,
pars
subdita
;
that
all
the
other
Apostles
were
,
what
was
,
equal
Cypr
.
de
unitate
Eccles
.
sharers
with
him
in
honour
and
power
,
and
that
Christ
gave
all
his
Apostles
equal
power
after
his
resurrection
.
whereever
the
Bishop
be
,
at
Hierom
.
ad
Evagr
.
Ep.
&c.
he
is
of
equal
merit
,
and
of
the
same
Priesthood
:
one
Episcopacy
it
is
not
one
Church
but
an
association
of
many
Churches
,
such
as
a
thousand
Independent
Churches
may
make
,
or
the
Churches
of
many
Kingdoms
.
presential
communion
,
That
it
proceeds
upon
a
false
supposition
,
which
is
,
that
whereever
there
is
the
true
notion
of
a
Church
,
there
must
be
a
constitutive
Regent
part
,
that
is
,
there
must
be
a
standing
governing
power
,
which
is
an
essential
part
of
it
.
the
true
notion
of
a
Church
,
a
Ship
full
,
or
Prison
full
,
or
House
full
of
Christians
.
is
not
government
essential
to
a
governed
Church
?
a
constitutive
regent
Head
?
that
there
is
one
Catholick
visible
Church
,
and
that
all
particular
Churches
,
as
headed
by
their
particular
Bishops
or
Pastors
,
are
parts
of
the
universal
Church
.
Now
if
this
doctrine
be
true
,
and
withal
it
be
necessary
,
that
every
Church
must
have
a
constitutive
Regent
part
as
essential
to
it
,
then
it
unavoidably
follows
,
that
there
must
be
a
Catholick
visible
Head
to
the
Catholick
visible
Church
,
and
so
Mr.
constitutive
Regent
part
of
a
Church
hath
done
the
Pope
a
wonderful
kindness
,
and
made
a
very
plausible
plea
for
his
universal
Pastorship
.
that
Mr.
says
,
that
the
universal
Church
is
headed
by
Christ
himself
,
that
this
doth
not
remove
the
difficulty
;
for
the
question
is
about
that
visible
Church
,
whereof
the
particular
Churches
are
parts
,
and
they
being
visible
parts
do
require
a
visible
constitutive
Regent
head
as
essential
to
them
;
therefore
the
whole
visible
Church
must
have
likewise
a
visible
constitutive
Regent
part
,
a
visible
head
of
the
Church
.
it
enough
Still
.
p.
that
Christ
is
the
head
of
those
who
are
visible
:
Is
this
our
Champion
against
Popery
now
?
but
all
the
Kingdoms
of
the
world
are
visible
parts
of
his
universal
Kingdom
,
though
he
be
invisible
,
that
the
universal
Head
must
be
visible
if
the
subordinate
be
so
:
this
is
to
turn
the
controversie
from
the
necessity
of
a
Regent
Head
,
to
the
necessity
of
his
visibility
:
the
chief
or
high●st
the
tops
and
Princes
of
all
,
Treat●se
of
p.
189
,
&c.
the
Popes
Supremacy
.
that
they
were
met
freely
to
declare
their
opinions
about
this
matter
judging
no
man
,
nor
denying
Communion
to
him
,
if
he
dissent
;
for
neither
doth
any
of
us
constitute
himself
Bishop
of
Bishops
,
or
by
Tyrannical
terrour
compel
his
Collegues
to
a
necessity
of
obeying
,
since
every
Bishop
being
free
,
and
in
own
power
,
has
his
own
free
choice
,
and
can
neither
be
judged
by
another
,
nor
judge
another
:
but
let
us
all
expect
the
judgement
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
who
alone
has
power
both
to
advance
us
to
the
government
of
his
Church
,
and
judge
of
our
government
.
Montanists
.
Among
us
(
i.e.
Bishops
enjoy
the
place
of
the
Apostles
,
among
them
the
Bishop
is
but
the
third
:
For
they
have
the
Patriarchs
of
for
the
first
,
those
whom
they
call
for
the
second
;
thus
Bishops
are
thrust
down
into
the
third
,
that
is
,
almost
the
last
place
:
the
resolution
that
we
deny
any
necessity
of
any
such
constitutive
Regent
part
,
as
one
formal
Ecclesiastical
Head
,
as
essential
to
a
National
Church
:
For
a
National
consent
is
as
sufficient
to
make
a
National
Church
,
as
an
universal
consent
to
make
a
Catholick
Church
.
No
consent
maketh
a
Catholick
Church
,
but
consenting
to
one
Supreme
Head
Christ
:
Why
do
you
pretend
,
that
we
are
none
of
the
Church
of
who
deny
not
associated
Chur●●es
in
under
one
Civil
Government
:
no
Government
of
the
Church
,
but
the
Civil
.
How
old
our
Church
is
?
what
Parliament
first
made
it
?
Does
it
dye
,
and
live
again
,
as
oft
as
Parliaments
change
it
?
How
shall
we
prove
,
that
the
whole
or
half
of
the
Nation
,
ever
meant
to
put
their
consent
into
the
hand
of
the
Parliament
to
make
a
new
Church
of
and
to
alter
it
?
What
men
make
,
they
may
destroy
.
May
not
the
Nation
withdraw
such
consent
,
and
the
Parliament
unmake
their
creature
?
there
is
any
such
Church
in
the
questioned
Political
sense
:
that
he
absolves
all
men
from
the
duty
of
obeying
the
Church
of
as
such
;
and
how
can
men
be
Schismaticks
for
disobeying
them
that
are
not
their
Governours
;
by
an
Act
of
Parliament
Still
.
p.
to
le●itimate
the
meetings
of
so
as
thereby
to
become
immediately
parts
of
the
Church
as
National
,
no
l●ss
than
the
Parochial
Assemblies
.
how
it
comes
to
be
one
National
Church
:
how
all
the
Congregations
in
make
up
this
one
Church
;
I
say
by
unity
of
consent
,
as
all
particular
Churches
make
one
Catholick
Church
.
because
it
was
received
by
the
common
consent
of
the
whole
Nation
in
Parliament
,
as
other
Laws
of
the
Nation
are
.
what
that
common
governing
power
in
the
Church
is
,
which
this
Parliament
consent
hath
set
up
:
if
it
be
by
Parliament
consent
,
how
old
is
your
Church
?
Doth
it
live
and
dye
again
as
oft
as
Parliaments
change
it
?
May
not
the
Parliament
unmake
their
creatures
?
how
Dissenters
come
to
be
bound
by
Parliament
consent
?
if
it
never
was
in
their
minds
,
to
trust
them
as
consenters
for
them
?
the
Laws
bind
them
,
only
as
consenting
to
them
by
their
representatives
,
if
the
peoples
consent
can
make
a
National
Church
,
why
may
it
not
make
a
Presbyterian
,
or
Independent
Church
?
if
the
Nations
consent
as
such
,
make
the
Church
of
it
is
not
made
by
Legislative
power
of
King
and
Parliament
:
Do
the
Church
represent
the
King
,
or
is
he
none
of
the
Church
?
How
prove
you
,
that
the
Clergy
represent
the
Laity
in
the
Convocation
?
by
your
rule
,
if
divers
parties
of
Christians
agree
to
set
up
divers
forms
of
Church
Governments
with
mutual
forbearance
,
they
would
be
one
National
Church
.
Cypr
.
Cornelio
ep
.
Cypr
.
Cornilio
ep
.
The
peace
of
the
Church
was
preserved
by
communion
of
all
parts
together
,
not
by
the
subjection
of
the
rest
to
one
part
:
That
the
case
of
Bishops
was
like
to
that
of
Princes
,
each
of
whom
hath
a
free
superintendence
in
his
own
territory
,
but
to
uphold
justice
and
peace
in
the
world
,
or
between
adjacent
Nations
,
the
intercourse
of
several
Princes
is
needful
.
Cypr
.
Ep.
ad
Antan
.
communio
peregrina
,
Optatus
l.
sometimes
recommend
their
Subjects
to
other
Princes
;
they
expect
offices
of
humanity
toward
their
Subjects
,
travelling
or
trading
any
where
in
the
world
;
common
reason
doth
require
such
things
,
but
may
common
union
of
polity
from
hence
be
inferred
?
Melius
Inquirendum
.
all
lawful
things
are
to
be
done
for
the
Churches
peace
: