[4jJ] ' . \ ' ' the chiefeft Chairs,and then they called their fidti The Church': Ana thus Churc,h and Church here be, gan ou~ ~rif~. j\nq the .,diff~renc~ ~willed wi.th the Ctvtl dlfferetrces betwee~ Kmg a_nd Parl1a-. ment, widened aQd utterly exafperatea by War (~he A. Bifhop of Canterbury beheaded,. .and_the A. Bi!hop of York. being in Arms for the· Par1ia~ ment) each Party daimeth the name of the churcH ~fEn'glana : And the Party that is upperrtroft dotf1 it with advantage ; while fobet men know that ·denominating a Formd as exifient .in M4terid cai paci feu' di(pofitd, the Church of England is nothing but a Pfotejfant Soveraign; and a Protefiant King.:. dotn 9f Subjects guided •by Protefiant Minifier~: bf the \Vord, Sacra_ments, and Kers: . , ' So that in the Reign of KingJames, a·nd ofany Papit1 King, -there was, and can be no Pt·otefiant Kingdom ·or National Church; deficieme formJ. denominame, in the Jud~eht of thofe rtoyalifi~ that think Parliaments have no part ~tl the Le· gillation and Soveraignty :And according to them that think otherwife, it is but· aNational Churdi fecundum q#id, id tefpec1: to · th~ Power of Parlia;;.· ments and L"ws. · . . , . .But piitticitlar Churches, P<trothial,, and Confe~ Clerate; and Diocefan may yet continu'€ their' Con.; .(!itutive caufes contimJin.g : But n'ot an·informed Nationa1 Ghurch~ \ . •
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