and particularly with thofe them of the firfi order of Coinpofiticn; of which affociation this particular Church is a part, for Communionof Churches as they are themfelvesa Society firCommunionof Individual Çhrifftans in a Tingle Church. a. Now the ends ofour DiocefaneChurches are not one of all thef. For r. Their Communion is internal in Faith andLove; fuch as we have with the Abaf fines. 2. It is dillant only, and not prefential at all : For as Diocefane we never fee each other it's like in our whole lives. 3. It is notperfonal ( as ex- terual and fenfìble) but only by the interventionofDelegates, Meffengers, Of= fivers or Synods offuck.. 4. It is only in eademfpecie of publick worlhip and. facred aétions that we havé_Gomtnúnion, but not in the fame Individual a6ti- ons of worship : And fo we may have Communion with the Antipodes; while, we b_lieve the fame Scriptures and Creed, and use the fame Sacraments, &c. in fpecie. 5. We have no convene withone another at all as Diocefane : ( though as Parochial we may) we never meet together, pray together, hear together, exhort or watch over or help each other : Ifa Brother trefpafs we tell himnot ofhis fault, &c. for we neverknow one offive hundred in theDiocefe, no more than men of another Countrey. 6. We hear 'not the fame Teachers; we have not.the fame Guides to refolve our doubts, and to infiruEr us as we need ;,We. have notthe fame Melts to joyn witlfin Godspublickworihip : Euthe that. Teachethandofficiateth in one Church, hath no power in another: Only wehave the fame Bishop to call . ( not the people before him to teach and warn and comfort them, but) the Parfon and Churchwardens ; or ra- ther the fame Lay-Chancellor and his Court, and the fameCanons (for filen- cing our Minifters, Excommunicating many confcionableNonconfortnifts, &c.) whichnot only all the Diocefe hath,but all the Land. Not one ofmanyhun- dreds of the Diocefe ever feth the Bishop in all his life. 7. ADiocefe is it felt` a compound ofparticularChurches affociated (Though mortified quantum in Didcefantir ; ) And therefore cannot be a confiitutive part of fuch a firfì order ofAffociation, as a particular Church,may be'or is. Thefeare the diffe- rences in the Ends. Now lay all there together, and try, whether the differences in fomany parts of the Ends of the Society, make not a Specifìck difference in Societies. Whe- ther [a companyofChriftians affociatedwith the fame prefent Paltors,for pre- fential perfonal Communion in Gods publick worship, Sacraments, Teaching, and Guidance, and for mutual Alliance in holy convene and living, t!rc. and cohabiting in a vicinity capable of this convene and Communion ] be a So- ciety of the fame species with [ A company ofCongregations affociated ( or rather never affociated ) tohold a dillant Communion in the famefpecies of $e= lief, Prayer, Sacraments, &c. under feveral appropriate Paffors, not living (ut Parochiani ) in any fuch vicinity as may render them capableofany of the fore- laid prefent alliftances or Communion : (unlefs in travail men accidentally come together as,w.e may do with men ofother lands.) ] It is notorious that these Efentiating Ends ofthe two forts of Societies are diftinét ; and therefore the Societies are effentiafy dillíná. M . Even
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