[263] excellent perlons that have pradifed § 32. Nay we have already faid,that fecuring the state, worfhip, dottrine and true difcipline of the inferiour particular ( Parifh ) Churches, there are fome of us that much incline to think that Archbifhops, that is, Bifhops that have Tome overfight of many Churches with their Paftors, are Lawful fucceffours of the Apostles in the ordinary part of their work . And fuch of us have long ago laid, that the Epifcopal Govern- ment of the Bohemian Waldenfes defcribed by Comrenim and Lafcitit ,is molt agreable to our judgment of any that we know excercifed Therefore that which we humbly offered for our concord in England at His Majefties Reftauration, was Archbifhop Whers formof the Primitive Church Government, not attempting any dimi- nution of the Power, wealth or honour of the Diocefanes or Archbifhops; but only a reftaura- tion of the Presbyters to their proper Office- work, and fome tolerable difcipline to the par- ticular Parifh Churches. § 33 But we mull ever much difference, fo much of Church order and Government as God himfelf hath inftituted, and is purely divine and unchangeable, from thole accidentals which men ordain though according to Gods general Rules : For thefe are often various and mutable, and are means to the former, and never to be ulèd againft them.And of thefe accidentals ofGovern- ment we fáy as they that fay no fuch form is fixed by God. Concord,order 8r decency and edification are alwaies neceffäry , But oft times it may be indifferent whether concord, order and decency be exprelfed by this accidental way or that. And S 4 that
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