Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

. I 4i9 j .. , - ~ ' ' ~ r • ' ·; I '• , 't : ~ riiay hrnder the'm :. So ~hat our .Univerfalifls pleaq that on neceffity t9 th~ Concord and Being .~f Chrili's Cpurch, al! tbe Chrifiian W9rld ,mu·~ be tinder the Supreme:Gover!lment o~ thoufands ofthe Sub jeers of ttarwus Prmces, .moLl: of them Enemies·: When aH ohurch-Hifioty .and Expe– rience have tbld the World, lto\v mt1c~ Princes tan do on their fubjeet ·clergy. . '· , . - . . LIX. to make the Churchof Englaiu/,_ afub~ & fed.part ofthe CqrirchU.nivetfal as ~Govern'7 ~d by 4ForeignSuprem{:! Powet, .(Pope, Council or College)- is to mak~ it toM[pede, qui.te,another thing from wJiat tbePrqtefiantChurc~ofEngliin4-J and the other Pr0~teftant Churches are; · ~ ·. . · Proved'; where the · Sup~eme Govern~mnf ~ .~/ ...· 1 tered or diveri, the Specj~s 6f ttle ·~odety i~ - alter– ed or divers. No man that knows ' what Gb.: vernment is, will deny this~ .. But here the su~ j;i-eme Government would he altered or divers•.For' the Protefiant Churches 6~n no SuP,rern.e Uni... yerfal Governour. b~t. Chr~ft~ . And : !hat ..th~ Church of Englandowned:: no fuch, I wdl prove anon. . . . , . ., · i ::AKingdom, and a patt of a- Kitigdod1 ~ if, '•. tornp1eat Political Body, and the meer.; Part ~ of fuch aBody-(as a Corp'oratiori) ate' not of thE , fame Species:· But the Prote!htntChur<:h.of Eng- }Plnd . is a compleat ;Sodety in it fel& .and . th~ Church of ~ngland as a rneer part of a greater · Society i~ not fo~ As ~hrill:'s Kingdom ilhd the·. Kings differ, fo we maintain that .the l(irigd<imof E~glan4, as fuch, ~nd as a ~ ~eet part.. of . ~h~ifi's ·l(mgdom, are efdtfferent SJ!_ecies: And it vvould be fo as , ~d aHumane :Univerf" Kingdom, were 1bere atiy fuch: , Be: 1." j: A .

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