c' on the Supreme vilible Power, fo as to leave no -"place for Appeals co~cernil!g the 'Praetice of · '' fuch Government (whiCh as 1t lafisonly for this " life, fo it ought not to ·admit of Difputes more "lafi:ing than its PratticeJ from them, , and that " upon rational and confciencious Principles : for " how fallible foever they may be conceived to be " in expounding Scripture , yet none can deny "them to be the ·moft certain as well as the moft f' competent Judges of their own Intentions:· As " certainly therefore as . ~~God made his Church (d) Not~ that he fJleak- " ) ~fibl . ' d eth of Gods Church m the " ( d a_v11 , eSo~1ety, an fingul~rNumber, and not > confi:ttuted a vlllble GoofnationalChurches which ' '' vernment in it, (e) f<;> are many. · S' certain their Hypothefis (e) He hath confiituted .~' is faJfe. a Species of vifible Govcrp. 83 . cc How can S.ubnorsoverthefeveralParts, but no one (Perfonal or " jeets preferve (their due Collective)over the whole. ~' Subo1~din:uion to their ," Superiours) if they practice differently ? They ~' may poilibly qo it notwithfianding Practices of ~' Hamane' Infirmity , and difavowed by them· '' felves; But how can th~y do it while they de~ "fend their Praftic~s, and pretend Divin~ Autbo- . ~' rity for ~t? Yea, and pretend to Authority and "Offices unaccountable to them ; which mufi ju– ~' ftifie a whole courfe of differem Prattices. F. 84. "If their Authority be immediately re· " ceived from God,and the Rule oftheir PraCtices " be taken from the Scriptures , as underfiood by ~' themfelves what reafon , . '' can there be of fubje· (f) ~sit no Obedience ' ' Ction to any humane Su· unlefs 1t be abfolute ? Is " . ('+') ; none due to God~ ' c. penours. J , Man? Mutlno't his Lawbe • I ~ndorfrood ? "'hap.
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