[ 377 J fuUy made , bath diffimilar parts? ·fotpe are No– Me Organic~! parts , firJl: made to be mftrwnenrs in making and preferv.ing all the refi ; and the -Church cannOt be a Formed Church without them; fome are fuch Integrals, as the Church may Hvc without. but not be Whole \vithout. J Even'-as 4riftotle deflneth the Soul re) be J!.nte– lechia, or the Entitative Ail and Form of a Phyji– cal organiz..ed Body, capable of being A1'1imated by it. And as in Generation the Heart is firfi: made, and then fome Rudiments ot the Veffels for Di– firibution , and then the Head and Eyes, and then the Liver, &c. So ~brills Humane Nature w.ich · his Spirit , is as Heart and Head to the Church: And then Teaching by himfelf firfi, was as the Arteries for Difiribution; And the Apofiles were firfi made the moft Noble Organicat parts, 'to De– liver and Record his Univerfal Commands, and by his Spirit , make up the Inferior parts , and theordinary Pafiors to be as the Stom3ch and Li– ver, &·c. for the Nutritionof the \Yhole. None of thefe parts are the Soul or forma hominis ; bur the Noblell: parts are neceifary in that Contex– ture , which is forma Corporis, to make it materi.;e ' difpofita, receptive · of the Soul, which is the form , as to its full Operation, though the Semen to make an Embrio before received it. Much like is ic in our prefent Cafe. . · · XXIII. Our ControverGe then is not, whether it be nece!fary . to the being of the Chu·rch in faRo ejfe , that it have Apofi:les af.ld Pall:ors and Tea(hers; to make it the Organiz,ed Body of Chrill:, for this we all acknowledge. Nor yet whether thefe ihould be all Chrifiians of one Bo– QY, Spirit, Faith:, Bapti[m, Hope, united to-one Head j .- • · · • ·and·
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