[Z571 which the Apoftles were fent to endeavour, Alat; -,8 t9 to convert Rations : But here is nothing, tb,.t we can perceive, to prove that thefe Chri- ftian Nations muff have the Jewilh Church Po-, lick 18. Nay contrary, the Church is faid to be bat- on the foundation of the Prophets and A-- poftles,Eph.2.2o. and not of the .Moftzcal Policy of Priefthood, Rev.2r.i4. It bath twelve founda- tions. § 19. It is fiid, Zech. 2. 1r . Many Nations (hall be jovned to the Lord, and (hall be my people. So Zech. S. 22. yfa. 6s. a. Rom. t o. 2a. Ifs. 2.2. & 55. 5. Hof2.23. Ifa.6o.3 & 49.2Zá But not a word in all this,of the old form of Po- licy or Priefthood , but Contrarily , that the Law fhould come out of Zion, and a new Covenant fhould be made : And it is certain that fo large a hiftory as we have of Chrift's performances, is a far clearer light than obfcure Prophecies ; and darker texts muff be explained by the plainer, and not contrarily. § 20. We fee tot how the Synod A . 15; xnaketh any thing for a National High Prieft or Sanedrim, or any like Policy: For i; It appear- eth to be no ask'"of proper National Government, but did brrd' other Churches as well as thof4 within the Empire. 2 It was an arbitration at the requeft ofdoubting perfons 3, and it was not the Relation of the Arbitrators to one feat of National Power (as the Metropolis) that was refpec`ted, but the quality of the .perfons Pent to, who would have been equally obeyed had they dwelt in the leaft Village of another Land. a. There were the Apoftles that had the promife of
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