or by a General Council while fitting, and a Pope in the Intervals, fay others, or by a Pope and Council agreeing while it fits, and a Pope in the Intervals, fay others) to be ?sire Divino, and all particular Church -Forms as fubordinate, left to the prudence of this Univerfal Governour as Supreme ; as Inferiour Officers in Kingdoms are made by the King. Sell. IV. 3. Some hold that this Vniverfal Church-Farm, and allo Diocefan, and no other, are infrituted of God. Self. V. 4. Some hold that the Univerfal, Patriarchal, Metropolitical (or Provincial) Dio- cefan, and Parochial, are jure divino,or initituted by Chrift and his Apofiles. Sets. VI. S. Some hold that only Diocefan Churches, and Metropolitical or Provincial, are jure divino, and not the univerfal : And of thefe force take Diocefan Churches, for thole only that contain many fixed Affemblies, and force for fach as have one Bifhop, whether over one Congregation, or over multitudes. Saith the very learned Dr. Hamond, in i Tim. 3. VI-he Church of the living God, was every fuch regulatr Affembly of Chriffiax s under a B/hop (fuch eas Timothy was) an Oeconomus fee over them by Chriff ; Such again every larger circuit under the .a4/letropolitane, who as Timothy had xriejbwswv xj xeíasv, Ordination and 7urifdiffion over the whole Province. Andfuch all the particular Churches of the whole world, confidered together under the Supreme Head Chrsß ?efus, difpenfn them all by himfelf, and adminijfring them f ,verally, not by any one Oeconomus, 6rdr by the feveral Bifoops as inftriour Heads of Vnitp to thefeveral Bodies, fo B 3 con-
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