[209] Ill· "You fay that Thefe fix things are the.Govern~ ing ACEs of this Chief Power. . , 1. To judge which Me the true Book! of Scripture., "and the true Copies ~nd ReP~dings. . 2 . "To judge what is the fence of the Fundamen– - "tals, Baptifm, Creed, whofe words mifunderftood " will n~t fave any. . . , 3· "To judge and declare what u the true Church '' Government in{fitifted by Chriff and hu Apoflles, "or delivered by them. 4. '~ To judge and declare what are the inftituted "Ordinances e. g. Confirmation tU it is-a giving ofthe "Hfily Ghoff by Impofition of Hands, and not only ''an owning of our Baptifmal Covenant,which :we do in " every' Sacrament : ~tnd fo of other Ordinanc~s. 5. " .A Judicial Power, not ofall individual Cafes; cc but that thofe e. g. that hold or do ~this or . that be "Excommunicate. . 6. " A Legi{lative Power, to mak§ alterable Ca~· "nons or Orders of the Church Vniver{al. This is the fum of all your Explicatory Difcourfes : To which I anfwer. . · · , · S. I. lo ¥OUr proofs that fuch a Univerfal.Go– verningChurch there is inftituted. 1. To l{l1i.6o; I 2._, I fay, 1. It is not fafe firetching dark Prophetical Texts, farther than we can prove they are intend– ed. The New Tefiarnent plainlier tells us the Church State and Power than the Old. 2. The Univerfal Church hath not expounded the Text, whether it fpeak of the fiate of the Jews after the Captivity, or of the State of the Catholick Church now, or of the more Bleffed State of it at the laft, when it is more perfected, Therefore how are you fure that you have the true fen'eofit without theChurches Expoficion ? - · P. 3e The · i t ! 1 ,f
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