[1'5°3 the Egyptí : Bithops crying fo long miferemini; m: 'rerncni; proftrate on the earth, even when they could fay, Non diffentimus, and beg- ing of their fellow Bithops for their lives and confc.iences, and their Brethren crying againft all [Away with them, ney are Heret<cks] while they profefl'ed the fame Faith,;, while the men that with fuck out-crys were condemning thole of their own coñfeffion, had newly cryed, Omnes peccaimus, for condemning .Fláviantss, and the Truth, and laying, that they did it for fear, and owned rh'ut 'Eutychianifm, which yet thefe E- zyptian B'fhops now difowned, it mindeth us that even Bithops had need to be remembred, that while the wheel is turning, the upper fide fhould not tempt men to forget what fide will be uppermóft fhortly and for ever. Additions : more particularly of National Churches. r. Here are force worthy perlons who plead more fpeci,ally for National Churches as ofDivine Inftitution, whole Doctrine calls us to a fpecial confidrration of it. But though forne of us haveoft defired it, we have not hitherto obtained any fatisfac`tion what they mean by A National Churob, or any true defini- tion which they agree in Some of them deride us for doubting and asking thequeftion,and fotne anlver it to the increafe ofour doubt. § L. it mutt be prefu pofed that we (peaknot of. =, meet Community that hath no Paftors, but ftrialy of;a Society calledby force ]Political, by others
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