26Tí j7R were then generally Chriftians, as now.) But then his power would change with the Empire, and fall when it falleth. 3o. III. But if the queftion be only whether a National Priestly Soveraignty be lawful ? or whether God's general Rules (for Coccora,Order, Ed(cation) do bind theChurches prudentially to et-rut filch a form ? To this they fiyas followeth. T. We will firft lay hold on certainties, and not prefer un ertainjes before them. We are fure that fuck a power of Apoftles and Paftors as is before mentioned, was ettablifhed ; and that the junior Paftors were as Sons to the feniers, or- dained by them : Whether the power ofOrdain- ing and Goveruing :Mini{ters was by Apoaolical Ettablifhment appropriated to men of a Pape lour degree in the fä,cred Miniitry, feemeth to us- ve- ry dark: 2. We are pact doubt that all particular Churches, by Apoftolical order, had Bifhops; and thät a Church was, as M eram faith, Plebs E if- copo adrnata, and as Ignat4vu., the Unity of every Church was notified by this,that to every there was one Altar and one lea °pop (at that time) and as Cyprzan, Vbi Epifèopu ibi Ecclrfó. 3 . And we are fatistied, that everyPresbyter is rpífco- pus,Gregis, whoever claim to be Epic-1)4 E if°O porrsm (which the Carthage Council in C)priass renounced. ) 4. And we are farisfied that no Church- fuperìours have authority to defttoy the particular Church -form, Miniítry, Dodrine; Worfhip"or Difcipline, which were retied by the Holy Ghoft in the Apoftles; And that the privi- ledges and duties of thefe liingle particular Churches, being plaineft and, fureit in Scripture, they mutt be continued whatever Canons or S3 Corn- _
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