Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

t· $4i j . . . ; \ . . fhall have one Primate, or all p~rcicular Church~ · fl1a1l be equal ; ·or fome Tolerated ancl Priviledged from theDiocefans\ . . I 10• . The Kirig may make public"k La:ws for fa:.. rnily Religion, that ~11 Childrenbe taught toread; and learn Catechifms, and ·sctipture, and rife rh:e Lords day in pio.us Exercifes, and fubmit to their Teachers, .and .forbear profane contempt of abufe .. of Perfons or Things~ , . . I think the whole MJtter is decided in there ten Particulars. \ . § 4· H. Ndw de nomine the quelHon is what is to be cal1ed the FORM, a:nd what but the MAT... TER of the Church as Nationat For · of ~ ,Church ,as CongregatiOnal, or as_Dzocefan, or aPro-, vitJcial we have Bo controvedie : No more than of a Cityor School. · · · , And [eeing every Polic.ick Society·conGfiethof the Pars lmperanni.nd Pats Subdita, all'gtant·• that the Pars f mperans as re-lated to the Pa.r:r- Subdita 1 is the Specifying or" Unifying Forin and" Head; it is then clear that all the Clergy being but the Pari Subdita under the Government 'of the fummtt po– refoa~ (whether l(ings alone, or King and ParHa• . ment, or an Arifiocracy J they can be·.,.,but the ' r /ltlatter of the Church as National, and not the · Form; l Head: For a Body Politick of one 'Specieg c~n have but one Head of that Species. ,So that to makea Primate , or two Metrupctitans, or a $y... nodof Diocefam, or a~onvocation reprefe11t-ing all the Clergy, to be more· than the Matttr of a Church as National, is to make them the fumm;; poteft M or Soveraign, and to depofe King and Pat~ :liament. · ...... ·· § -5. Obj. :But the .R~giment bt_i~g cj tWi S~tiu, . Nn ~

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