downall Dió¢efattes, andto fet up onlyaBifhop in everyParilh or Independent Church,&'fay i change not theSpecies ; or if I believed that this were aChange ofthe-Englifh fpecies'ofChurch Government I would not do it : what anfwer would they give to this ? *ueft. 4. If a Conformift or one thathathtaken that Oath, Shall fay, I did fubfcribe and fwear only not to endeavour an alteration of thefpecies, but not ofthe degree: Therefore I will do all that I can to take down Diocefans, and to fet up Congregational or Parochial Bifhops in their dead, will you tell this man that indeed by fo doing he endeavoureth not to change the 'Peeks ? Rue. g. Seeing manyof the greateft oppofers ofPre- lacy, do confent to a Congregational or Parochial Bithop, will you grant that thefe arenot at all your adverfaries as to the [pecksof Church Government, but only as to the degreeor extent ofDiocefes? Thefe cafes are pradtical : There- fore take heed how you refolve them, left you do that which you are unwilling of. ,Rueft. 6. And I may ask, Whyis it that many deny that it was a Parlia- ment ofEpifcopal men, thatrailed the Army againft the ''King, only becaufe in thePropofition fent to Nottingham they would have had Epifcopacy reduced towhat is there intimated, and would have had their power thortned ? Come, come, deny not the plain truth, If magic minus non variant fpeciem, Parli- ament men, yea, and the Learnedefi part of that Synod who took down Bifhops, were Epifcopal men, yea, Prelatitls as you are, for they were but for aGradual alterationat the beginning of their war, till they were carried fur- ther byneceflity and letterefl. Aueft. 7. AndI ask you alto, why, and with what front do you call us all Presbyterians, who offered BilhopVfhors Model to the King and you in 166o. as the terms ofConcord ? Is it againft your Confciences meetly to make us odious withyou know whom ? what can it be better, ifyou -grant that weare not only for Epifcopacy in genere, but even for the fame Species with your felves? Yea, thofe that are againft Bithop Vfhers Model, and are only for Congregational or ParilhBifhops, are it feemeth even for your fpecies: And are they not then Epifcopal as well as you ? Somuch ad hominem ; now ad rem. II. Where the fpecifying Ends differ , there the Species of Relations differ. But in the Churches and the Bops in gueftion thefpecifying Ende differ ; Ergo &c. I will firtl manifefl the truthof the Minor (for the Major is unqueftionable) of Churches, andnextofBifhops. a. The ends ofa particular Church as defçribed by us are thefe : r. Com- munion fentible and external ; 2. And that local or prefential ; 3. And that perfonal by all the body of the Church ; 4. And that in the fame Individual adds of Gods publick worthip. 5. Inwatching over, or helping each other towards Heaven, byprovoking each other to loveand togood works; and if a brother offend to tell him ofhis fault; o comfort each other, and to live to- gether in holinefs, love and peace. 6. Tobe related to the fame Paflors, as thofe that are their Ordinary Teachers, Governours and Guides in publick worlhip, as labouring amonglt them and being enfamples to the flock.. 7. TO hold a diftant Communion with the neighbour.affociatedconcordantChurches, and
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