one that bath the charge of their fouls, and is their guide to life everlaffing. 4. 22. 6. and that Paflort may exercife adsof Difciplineand admini/ler the Sacraments to other CongregHtions, -upon a ft. ci- ent -Call, is evident from what is faid already. if they may Preach to the Paftors themfelves, they may help to Rule the flock : For, as is fai.d they ceafe not their Relation to the Church ofChrift in general , by beingengaged to one Church in particular. I general Minifiers, fuch as Apoífles, .Evan- gelifts, etc, might adminifler theSacraments where they came in Churches that were not any of their fpecial chargeah,ive others, then snapother Minifters of Chrift do it upon a fuffici cnt Invitation , though the Congregation be none of their fpecial charge : And in fodoing, they a¬ as private men, nor yet as the gated Paftors of that flock, but as Paftors , Afi'i- ffant to the Rated Paffors, and Ruling pro tempore the people under them in that Afíifting way : Even as a Phyfitian helpeth another in his Holpital, when he is defired., and the neither as a Private Ordinary man , nor as Superiour to the Phy- fitianof the Hofpital, nor as thefiatcd Phyfitian of it hisnfelf, but as the temporary afftfiant Phyfitian ofit. Or asa Schoolmaffer helpeth another in his School for a few dayes in Neceffity, ashis temporaryafflant. 9. 23. 7 And upon the famegrounds is will fallow that one Church or Pallor on jaji accafion may avoid Communion with another, and declare that theyfo refolve to do ; and this without ufurping any.Jurifdi&ion over them, it being not the calling out or Excommunicating of amember of our charge, as the Rulers of that Church but theobeying ofa plain commandof the Holy Ghor , which requireth us to Avoid fuch, and have no company or Communion with them and with fuch no not to eat : And therefore it is a fond Argumentationof the Papifts that would conclude their Pope co be Head and Go- vernour , as far as they find heever didexcommunicate. S. 24. He that doubtethof anyof this, mutt not firft enquire, Whether a Minifter have fomuch Power, but firft Whether he may beobliged to fo much work, and fullering as his elm,. And thenhe fhall find that if there were no fpecial examples or com- mands, yet the general commands, which require usto dogood P p 2 while
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