[ '509 J ~ 4.9· Seeing ChrHl: was above three Yeat'S teaching his Apofiles before he died , -and after his Rdurrection [was feen of them fourty days, and [peaking of the thines pertaining to the Kingdom of · &od, and_ being ajfembleef together with them, com- ; manded them not to depart from Jerufalem, b11t wait far the Promife of the Father, even the' Spirit to lead· them into all truth , and bring all things· to their re~ membrance, and their Commiffion was to teach all Cbrifl:ians to obferve whatever Chrifi comman_: ded (All. 1. 3, 4· Mat h. 28. 19, 20.) is it to be· believed that'yet Cht:ifi by himfelf aqd his Spirit in thefe Apofiles did ·not make all the Laws that are Divine, and enow for the. Univerfal Chur.ch to obferve as neceffary to Salvarion and Univer– fal Concord ? ~50. Is it not enough toSalvation and Church Concord for all the PaHors of the Churches to agree, I. In preferving thefe Laws and DoCtrines of Chrift? 2. And to teach the People to know and obey them? 3· And to defend fhem againft Adverfaries? and 4· To make them the rt1le of their Communion by the exercife of the Keys ? 1 5. And by tbt~ir own Authority to determine of variable Circurnftan(\es of Worlhip (fuch as the Placeof meeting, the time , the tranflation , ,the fubject for the day, &c.) Is there befides all this a neceffity of llniverfal Laws for the Salvation and Concord of Believers, and of a fianding So– veraign Power in Priefis, Prelates or Patriarchs or Pope to make fuch La\vs ? .~)I. Have we not better. a!furance that the , forelaid Apofiles taught by Chrifi, and infpired by the HolyGhoil, had Authority and Infallibi– lity for this work, than we can have ~hat Pope, Patriarchs, Prelates or Pdefts have ic ?· .Q.
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