./ [ ~90 ] I . . Hands:.,This Law.ofChrill: all Chriftians own : But ifin this they have Succeffors, r . The Church batha larger Law than we have thought on, and _ Gods Word is a ,gr;eate~ Vok.rne. 2. And Mira– .cles are as nece(fary to Seal the new Word as to Seal the old. ·· . . II. The Scripture denieth a Vicarious [ummam , poteftatem, or Soveraignty over .the ·upiverfal Church having a Legifiative Power. I.· In that it faith that There is One Law-giver, Jam. 4. 12. thatis, But One. 2. In calling Chrill: only the Head, Lord and King, and caHing Apofiles but Members, 1 eo.,.. 12. 27. and Stewards and Mi– nifier's by whom vve believe. 3. Baptizing us only into the Name of Chrifr, and not of theA– poftles ; and Baptifm is Chrifiening, and fheweth ' atl that is neceifary to make us Members of the 1 Church and Body which Chrift is the Saviour o£ 4· Pauldecryeth it as Carnality and Schifm to think of Men above what is wri tten, as if they had been Baptized irito the Names of Men~ 5. Th~ Apoftles did not Convert Men by preach– ing pp themfelves ·as Soveraign, hut Chri£i:, only. profeiling themfelves Witneffesand, Meffengersof his Words and Deeds : The Eunuch Aaj 8. was Baptized by Philip upon his. bare believing in Chri11, without hearing the Vote of aColledge of Apofiles. Nor .did the Preachers that Converted Men do it by the Argument of the Authority of fuch ~ CQlledge. As Dr. Hammo'hd faith on i Tim. j. [~'And fuch are all particular Churches of the · " who1e World conlidered together, under the ~,, Supream HeadChrift Jefus, difpen{ing them all '' by himfelf, and adminiftring them feverally n~t · - ~~by any one Oeconomus, but by ·the feveral Br.;. .' ihops
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