(304) rained, for fear of mens un iu(t pretences of a Necefïîey c: that's buta fadCure. ¢. 29. But tbe other fide it will beobjeâed, This is bat patchingup apeace. If 1 thjnk that one man loath nomore right then another to a Wegative voice, Why Pubuld I feem to grant it himby mypra5lice ? Aniw. As when we come to Heaven, and not till then, we (hall have perfeíl Dolinefs fo when we come to Heaven, and not till then, we, ¡hall have..perfeEl Unityand Peace. But till then.,I (hall cake that which you. call Patching, as myDuty, and our great,Benefit. If you think one man have not a Negative voice, weneither urge you to fay that he bath, nor fo much as to feem toown his claim. You ¡hail have leave in the publiéeRegifterof the Affuciatjop, to put itunder your band, that tNot at owning the claimof the Prefidents Negative voice, but asyielding in a Lawfulthing for Peace, you do Confesrt to forbear Ordaining anywithout him, except in Cafes of NeceJfr- ty. ] This youmay do, withoutany thewof contraditingyour Principles, and this isall that is defired.; 3O Qfelt. Andmay wenet forpeace fake, grant them as much in point of 7urisdiçlion, as of Ordination, and Content to do nothing without Necery, but When the Prefident is one, and lath Confent ? 4nfw. Either by 7urisdiElion youmean Law making, or Executive Government. The brit belongs to none but Chyiit, in the fubftance of his Worfhip;; and theCircumfiances tto man may Vniverfallyand 'Unchangeablydetermineof:but pro renata, according to emergent occafions, the .Ilagi/lrate may make Laws for them, and the Paffers may make Agreements for Con- cord about them ; but none fhould determineof themwithout need: and therefore here is no work for Legi fiators (the llfurpers that have grievoufly wronged the Church.) And for Execu- tiveGovernment, either it is over the People, or over the Paflor.r To give a Negativevoice to the Prefident of an Afociarion of the Paflors of many Churches, in Governing the People ofa ( ingle Church, is to let up a newOffice (a fixed Pallor of ma- ny Churches) and to overthrow Government, and introduce thenoxious fort of Prelacy, which formypart, I intend not to be guiltyof. And for proper Government of the Pafers,l know none but God and Iviagiftrates that have that Power. Every Biftaop,faith Cyprian,and the Council of Carthage, bath Power of
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