2Sg] of the Holy Ghoft 2. There were many whom the people muff needs more confide in than in one ; efpecially whofe power was queftioned by gainfayers. 3. Both Apoftles,Elders and Brethren there were filch as had feen, or were neer to Chrift and his works, and therefore likelieft to knowhis mind. q.. They were Jews themfelves, and therefore molt impartial Judges in the point that Jewifh Teachers troubled them about, fo far as that they might well acquiefce when Jews themfelves refolved them.And when theApoftles were difperfed, we find not anymore y, rufalem- Councils Governing the Imperial Churches. § 21. If that Councils Authority were proper= l Natiûa1, and arofe from the prerogative of galern, then i. All theApoffles, when fcatterm ed, would have been fubjet to lames, the firft Bithop of 7erufalem, (thought to be no Apofile :) 2. Then 7erufalemmight have after claimed the Supremacy as of Divine right, before .Texan- dria, Antioch or Rome. But it is certain by ex- perience that the whole Church was of another mind, when ?erufalern had not fo much as the fifth or lowelt Patriarchate, till long after by a- nother grant. But if the Power was not fixed to the place, but the Itinerant Apoffles, then it is nothing to prove any Governing Church over others, as being affixed to filch a place : Nor Mall we eafily find the Apoffles Itinerant Suc- sefiòurs in that power. § 22. H. It is certain that Chrift chofe twelve Apoffles (betides Paul) who had a preeminence before other Minifters ; and that he joyned with them force Prophets and Evangelifis, appointing them all to gather Churches through theworld, difcipling
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