.[ 539 J - -Acquaintance and Commuoicati6n may iri cafe of ·i:rue need be a fit means offuch Concord. V. That where.fuch Synods cannot be.had wit&· due equality, Letters and. Meffengers from the feveral Nations or Provinces, or Chuvches may b~ ufed tQ rhat end. . - · · . VI. That the General Law ofChriftcommand-· ing Love, Concord and Edification, maketh it a fin for any to affeCt cauflefs•fingularity; and tq chufe any way whiGh tieMdeth to Divifion: And that where there is an Equality, ·and·no Regent power ; yet jtift ContraCts for Concord ought to. be obfetved. · · . . . . VII. That if in National .Churches (that is~1 Chrifiian. Kingdoms or · Commonwealths ) the Soveraign J.>ower give orre Seat or .Bilhop a Pri... macy or peculiar Priviledge, in .the Circa Sacra; · the Circumftantials of Sacred Offices; which are within the Magifirates Power, it .ought to be. obeyed. · . · , ~ VIII. If I had lived in the Chrifiian Empire;· when it {ometime gave the .Bifh<?P of Rome, artd fometime th€; ,Bilhop of C:onftaminople this ptehe-: minence of degree, and the other P,atriarchs ( of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerufalem ) their feveral Priviledges and Powers, not contrary to theW0rd ofGod, Iwould have obeyed that which theBmperpr by his Law preferte<.L1 , · ~ _ · , ,,/, IX. The Roman Empir~ was fo great a part of the known Civilized World, and fo Potent) that I quarrel nbt wi~h the Titles of '[ Orbis Romdlnus ] · and [ Eccl~fia Vniverfalis] given to that·. Domi– nion and Church which was meerly National bt Imperial ~ fo be it, we underftand the true mean.; . - - wg.
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