[ 189 J major Vote of, ~h.e Apollles met at Jtru[a_lem had thus or thus dec1ded ? How few would hve long enough for I that Satisfattion. 2. The Apofiles fingly by an infallible Uniting Spirit were the Mouth ofChrift to deliv~r obligatorily his Laws and DoCtrine , without meeting to Confult and Vote it. Paul profeffeth Gal. r. · that he received not his.Gofpel from the Apoll:les,but from Chrifi: ' And his Epifiles need not a proof of their Au· thority from the Vores or Confent of the .refi ; but were otherwife received : And .fo of othet· parts of Scripture. 3. ~The Apoftles were to be difperfed .about the World, and not to fray long together to Govern the World as a College: .And while' they ftayed at Jerufalem, we re(td not of . their doing any thing in a College and Conciliar way, fave that A&. 15. &· II. which was,. r. No General Council from all the Churches : 2. Nor .done by Apofi:les only, but the Elders and Bre– thren alfo. of the Church a~ Jertalem• ..3. And was not la1d on the Authonty o a ma JOt Vote, but on the Apofiolical Spirit of Infallibility and their fpecial knowledge ofChrifc'~ mind)in which they all concurred. · . · 2. Therefore their Authority of Teaching the ' ' World all Chrift's Commands M- 28- zo. being prope1: to them by thefe· two advantflges (being chofen Ear·witneffes, and having the Spirit to ' guide them into all truth ) in this they have no Succeff'ors thougfuhey have in. the continued parts of their Work.. They were Chrifis Inftruments in Univer!al Legitlation; and the Scripture writ– ten by them is his Word and Law, ariO they wer~ accordingly enabled to Seal it . by Miracles, and giving the Holy ·Ghofi by Impofition of the-ir ' r ands ~ • ' I ' '-
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