( g4) Schoolmafter andScholars make aSchool : and as a Mailer and houfhold make. a Family. And that ubi c Epifcopes (as Cyprian faith) ibi.efl Ecclefia ; which is nothing but Plebs paflori adunata. And that a peoplewithout a Bithop ( truly fo called ) are but a Church equivocally, as Scholars without a Matter are. a School, or as a company ofChrillians in a (hip or houfe accidentallymet, and praying together are a Church, &c. And as Dr. Field before cited, faith, None but a Bifhap bath a Church allothers arebut bin aiilants, or as commonly called his Curates. Therefore when a Prelatift pleadeth . that, our Pari(h Churches are true Churches (either of Gods or mans inftitution.) they, do forfake the principles oftheir party ( asnowmaintained) or they contradic`k, themfeives, or theyplay with equivocations and ambiguities. II. And that a DiocefaneChurch, which is one compofed ofthe carcafes of multitudeof mortified Churches,is notjure divino,having Paid fo much to prove myfelf, Ì will not flay to tell you how eafily the Separatios may prove it. So . that for my part as much as I have written and done againft them, I profefs I. amnot able to confute them on the Diocefane grounds, but would be oneof them if I had no.better. Queft. How thenmull they be confuted ?"' "Inf. Thus or not at all by toe. A Presbyters office isnot to be judged -of by theWhops will or defcription, but by God's the inflitutor. As if the King defcribe the Lord Mayors office in hisCharter ; IftheRecorder or whoever giveth him his oath, and inlialleth him, (hall mifdefcribe the office, and limit it; and fay-fahly you havenò power to do this or that ; This will not at all diminifh his power, as long as it is the Charter that they profefs to go by. He (hall have the power which theKing giveth,and not which the invefiing Mi- sifter defcribeth. Ifa Parfon prefented"toa Benefice, (hall be told by the Bilhop at his inoitution, the Tithes orGlebe are but halfyours, this (hall not diminilh his Title to the whole. So when God path defcribed the Minifters office, it (hall be what God faith it is, and notwhat the Ordainer faith it is: And God maketh thePaoors ofeach particular body offixed Communicants, unitedas aforefaid, to be really a.Bithop ("or at leá1 the chiefof thefe Pallors, or the foie Pallor: ) And therefore the Church to be truly-andunivocally a Church ofDivine infitution : Though it were never fo muchgranted that. Archbi(hops were overthem, as the Apoilles were overthofe Ads 14. 23. And then when the Parilh Churchesare once proved true Churches, whether the Diocefanebe fo or not, is nothing to our controverfie with theSeparatifts. But for my part I cannot confute the lawfulnefs of a Diocefe as confining of many particular Churches with their Bi(hops, as >( can a. Diocefe which hat& put them all down.. CHAP.
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