( 303.) fort of Biflyops ( in time', and the ¡jilt fixed Bithops that wete fia periours to other Paftor4 ) wt e thefe Prefidents of the Presbyteries of particular Ct urch:s. And thefe are they that nowwe have to (peak of. And I fhaIl prove that it is noe unlawful to have filch. g. 2. But firit I muff tell you what I mean; and fhew you that fuch may be bad amongus. I have in one of the former Difputations, defined a particular Church. It fhould ordina- rily confitt of no more then may hold perfonial Communion to- gether in Cods publickworfhip. But yet take notice, r. That it tendeth to the flrengch and honour of it, that it be not toa fmall; but confiflingof as many as are well capable of the Ends. 2. And it is lawful! for thefe to have force other meeting places for part of the Church, betides the principal place which is for the whole. Chappels of eafe may lawfully be made ufe of, for the benefit ofthe weak, and lame,and aged,that cannot alwayes or often come to the common A ffembly.And where fuch Chap- pels, are not, it is lawful! to make ufe of convenient houles: Yea if there were no place to be had, fufficiently capacious of a full"Aff_r11b1y, or elfe if perfecution forbad them to meet, might (till be but one Church, though the members met in fe- veral houles ordinarily : as five hundred in one, and three hun- dred in another, or one hundred only in feveral places, every one going to which häufe he pleated, and having feveral Pa- Rots that in Society and by Content did guide them all. But though fomewhat diforderly may be born with in cafes of Ne- ceflity ,: yet r. As it is Neceffary to the Ends,and fo to theBe. ing of a,particular Church that they be a Society capable of perfonal Communion; and the. perfonal Teaching,Guidance and Overfight of the fame Pallors, So 2. It is defìrable, as much tending to Order andEdification, that all of them that are able do frequently meet in one Affembly, for the Worfhipping of God with one heart and mouth. And this is the Church I (peak of. g :3 .it isnot ofNeceffrty to theReJigof Inch a particular Church that it have more Pastors then one : And when one only is the Pallor or Governour, that one alone may do all the works ofa Paaoe or Governour,(For what elfe is his Office, but the flare or Relationof a manobJiged.and authorized to do fuchworks?) The
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