ches,But yet it is but an improper word, to call all the Churches one Church on that account, which wecontend not about. ¢. 7. But it is the Thing that we flick more at then the name AGeneral HeadBoth properly fpecifie and individuate the Body» Prove either, i. That the Archbishop of Canterbury or any other. 2. Or an AffemblyofBithops or Presbyters, is properly an Ecclefiaffical Head,having A uthority from Jefus Chrift to be the chiefRuler ofall the Churches in the Land and then I will confefs that we have properly and firidly a NationalChurch. But no fuch thing canbe proved. . 8 As for an AfJembly, I have already (hewed ( which Bi (hop Yfher afferted to me) that they are not fuperior Governors, nor inflitutedgra:ia Regiminit, but gratias unitatis ; having no more Rule over particular Bithops, then a Convention of SchoolmaUers over a particular Schoolmafler. If they fay that Kings and Parliaments give Power to Cohvoc:ations I anfwer, that can be but Inch as they have themfelves : which we shall fpeak ofanon, and is nothing to this place. ¢. g. And as for a Primate or Archbifhop (of Canterbmry, e. g.) i. It will be a hard task to prove Archbifhops, as fuch, to be of Divine Inftitution. 2. And it will be harder, even Impoflible, toprove Archbifhops ofthe Englifhfpecies, as filch, to be of Divine inflitution. 3. And certainly Chrill bath no- where told us, that every Nation (hall have filch a Head, nor every Province, nor every County : nor told us whether there (hall be one over tenNations, or ten overone : Their limits are not to be found in Scripture (fuppofing there were fuch an office there known.) 4. Nor is it anywhere determined , that fuch a City (hall have the preheminence, and Canterbury, v. g, beRuler ofall the refl. All thefe are of meer humane infhtu- tion : And therefore that which the impofers of Ceremonies call [theChurch ofEngland ] is a meer humane thing, which there- fore can bind us no further then the Magifirate can authorize them to do. §. io. But the flrorger pretence will be, that the particular Bishops of England were feverally officers of Chrift, autho- rized to Govern their feveral flocks, and therefore a Convcca- tion ofthefe Bifhopsbinds us in confciencegrKtia: wa,tatis, The People they oblige as their Rulers : and tre luyera! Pcesbyters arc,
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