[ 220 ] mane Soveraign-Authority appointed to Govern all the World. And fo it is in the prefent Cafe. The Agreement ofall Chrifiians, Minifiers aad · People, Friends and Adverfaries, of contrary O– pinions and lnt,erefis , contending againfi each other about the Rule of their Expofitions, is a full Hifiorical Evidence of Fact, when no conli– derable Contradiction, even of Jews or Heathens, is made againfi it. 5. It is notorious, 1. That regularly our firfl: Receptioq both of Creed and Scripture, is by Gods ~ appointment to be by Children from their Parents, ' before ever they. hear aPreacher, Deut. 6. and 1 I. Thou Jhalt teach them thy Children,lying down and ri– fing up, &c. And God will blefs ·his appointed Means. Timothy learned the Scripture ·when he was aChild. If you fay, Parents received it iirfi I from the Church: I anfwer, Our Parents regular- . ly were to receive 'it as we did, even from their Parents, and they from theirs, and fo on to thofe that had it from the Apofiles, or firfi Preachers. And all Parents are not a Colledge of Sovereigp Rulers of all the World. I · 2. And private Chrifiians by Conference con– v:ert many. 3· And thofe that have not their Faith either of thefe ways, ufually have it by the teaching ·of particular Presbyters where they dwell. And yet none of thefe are the Colleffive– Sovert~ign to all the Chrifi~an Wo~!d; any more than Tutors in Law, Phyltck, or Theology .are.· THree and·twenty Years ago I read moll: tha·t you fay in a Paru Doctor H . Holden's Analys. S. (id. who yet (though mixt with injurious paffages againll: the S. Scripture) acknowledgech, that it IS by P!-ch an Uni·11er[~tl Confent of all Chrifiians, Lay a.nd ' · · · .. · · .. Clergy,
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