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P
A
R
T
II.
Reverend
Mr.
Richard
Baxter.
399
fuch
as
we
now
call
Presbyters in Scripture times.
And in
his
Anfwer
co
the
London
Minigers,
he faith,
That
for
ought he knoweth,
all his
Brethren
of the
Church
of
England
are
of
his
mind
:
So
that
Presbyters
that
had
no
Governing
Power,
were
not
in Scripture times.
And though
he fays
that
the
other
fort came,
in
before Ignatien's
time,
yet
x.
He faith
not that
this
fort had
no Government
of
the
Flock
,
but
that they
were under. the
Bifhop
in Government
; fo
that yet they
are
not the
fort
that we
are
fpeaking
of.
2.
And he
loth
not
prove any
more.
¢
3a7.
;. A
third Charge which they
bring
againft our-Prelacy
is
,
That
it
de-
froyeth
the
Species
or
Form
of
particular Chinches inftituted
by
Chrift
:
The
Churches.
whichChrift inftituted
are
[Holy
Societies affociated
for Perfnal
holy Corn=
minion undertheir particularPaflors
]:
But
all filch Societies
are
degroyed by the Dio-
cefan Frame
--
Ergo
it
is
dellruetive
of
the
Form
of
particular Churches in-
fituted
by
Chrift.
They diilinguifh between [Perfonal Local Communion of Saints,
by
Pall
ors
and
their
Flocks] and Communion
of
hearts
only
;
and Communion
by
Delegation
or
Deputies: r.
We have Heart-
Communion
withall
the Catholick Church through
the
World.
z.
Particular Churches
have
Communion
for
Concord
and
mutual
Strength,
in
Synods by
their
Pallors
or
Deputies.
3.
But
[a
holy Communion
of
Souls
or individualPerlons,
as
Members of
the
fame
particular Church; for
publick
Worlhip and
a
holy
Life]
is
fpecifically
diftinet from both
the former,
as is
ap
=;
parent, I.
By
the
difinet
end
; z.
The diftin& manner of Communion , yea
and
the
matter
of
it.
And that
this
Form
of
Churches
(or
Species)
is
overthrown by
this
Prelacy,
t17py
prove
:
[
The
Churches
of
Chrift's inilitution were conífiiuted
of Governing
a(tors,and
a Flock governed
by them
in
Perfonal holy
Communion,every
Church
havingits proper
Pallor,
or
Pafors].
But filch
Churches
as
are
thus
conitituted are
deftroyed
by
our Frame
of
Prelacy
:
Ergo
The
Major
is
confeffed
de
fade
by
Dr.
Hammond
(abi fupra)
as
io Scripture times,:
and
fufficiently
cleared in my Treatife
of
Epifcopacy.
Ignatius
hisTefimony
alone
might
fuffice,
who faith,
That
[to
every Church there
was
one
Altar,
and
one Bifloop,
with
the Preibytert
and
Deacons
bin
Fellow
Servants]. A
Church of
one
Altar,
and
of
a
thoufand
Altars;
A
Church that
is
forPerfonal
Communion, and
a
Church
that
hath no Perfonal Communion with her
Pallor
or Bithop, or
with one
of
a
hun-
dred of
her Fellow-Memberß,
a
Church which
is
a Church indeed, and that
which
is
no Church,
but only
a
part
of
a
Church, are more than
fpecifically
difinet
for
indeed
the
Name
is
but
equivocally applied to them
as
difin&
Natures ór
So-
cieties.
Every
Church
(univocally
fo
called
in
fenfu politico, as
a governed.
Society)
bath its
parsgubernans
and parsgubernata
to
confitute it
:
But
fo
have
not
our Pa-
ra
Churches
as
fuch :
indeed,
as
Oratories
and
Schools
(as inftru &ed
and wor-
(hipping
Societies)
they
have their
Parochial Heads; but
as
governed
Societies
they
have
no
Heads
proper to themfelves,
nor any
at
all
as Churèbés,
but
as parts
of
a
Church: For the
Diocefan is
Head
of
theDiocefan Church
as
fach
,
and
not
of
a
Parochial Church
as
filch, but
only
as
a
part
of
the Diocefan
Church. And
as
it
is
no Kingdom which bath no King,
fo
it
is
no Political Church which bath
nd
Governour or Pallor.
So
that
Diocefans deft
roy particular,Churebes,
as
much
as
in
them
lyethe
Unlefs any
will lay, that
as
one King;
as
he
is perfana
naturales,
may
be three, or
twenty Kings,
as perfora
civilis,
as
related
tà
fevetalKingdoms
;
and
fo'
one
Bilhop,
as perfora
naturals's,
may
yet
be a
thoufand EécÍefialficalPerfons,
as
Pa-
llor of
fo
many Churches
:
But this
being
ridiculous-1
and yet
faid by
none that
T
have heard of,
I
!hall
not
fand
to confute it.
But
were
it fo,
yet
a
Pallor that never feeth
or fpeaketh to
his
People,
nor bath'
any
perfonal
Communion
in Worfhip
with
them',
and
this
according to the
Con-
fitotion
it felt,
is
notof
the fame
tort
with
a
Scripture
Pallor,
r.The"..
S.
sa, t
3a
Hebr.
x3.
t7,
&e. which
labour among them,
and
preach
to
them
the Word
of
God,
and
watch
for their Souls,
&c. And confequently
the Churches
confitated
by them
are
not of the
fame
Species.
It
is
one
Office
perfocally
to
Teach,
Overfee,
Rule and
Worfhip with them ;
and another
to
do none of
there
to
one
óf
a
thoufand,
but
to
fend
tIe
Churchwardens
a
Book
of
Articles.
§'3t
8.
4:Afourth Charge is;That
it
fetteth up
a
14Cv,
Church
-Form
which
is
dnlaw-
fill,
infeàd
of
that of
Chrif'sinflitution
;
that
is, a
Diocelàn
Churchconlilting
of
many hundred Pariflses
(which none of them
are
Churches
according
to the
Dioce-
fan Frame,
but
parts
of
one
Church)
:
It
hath
been !hewed
that
this
Diocefan
Church
is
of
another
Specier'thats
the Parochial, one being
for
perfonal
Corninnsolefl '
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