( 9 5 ) any ofthemhave any thing againft the Bifhop, it'sa ceremony fitter for a flan than to come here into an Argument. 4. And as for the Bithops and Chancellors relation to the People, when it wants the word of God, and his confent, and the peoples confent, and bath. but the Kings collation, the Deans and Chapters formal confent, and the Pre- .. laces and Conformift Minifters confent, I may well conclude that here is not . the fame Fundament= as is ofthe Parochial andPaftors Church relation. IV. And where there is not the fame Relate and Correlate, there is not the fame Relation. But a Parochial Church and Pafior, and a Diocefane Church andPallor, are not the fame Relateand Correlate. Ergo. Ifthey be, let them become Parochial Bifhops and be flill the fame. But what I have laid ofthedifference of Ends and Foundations proveth this ; a Com- bination of Chriftians intoone Churchprimi ordinis for perfonal Communion, . is not the fame with a Combination ofCongregations for Communionmental` or by delegates only. And fo of the Bithops of thefe feveral Churches. V. Ifa Congregational Church or Pallor be ofthe famefpecies withour Di ocefaneChurches andPrelates, then aChurch that`extendeth through all the Kingdom, yea to many Kingdoms, yea to the Eaft and Well Indies orAnti- podes may be ofthe famefpecies alto ( and fo itsPallor.) And fo the Pope and his Church may be ofthe fame, ( as to the magnitude) But the confequent is falfe : Ergo, fo is the antecedent.. The cntsfequence in the Major is evident, becaufe there is eadem ratio ; For . their reafìmofdenominating a Church One is becaufe it bath One Bifhop ; and by their Principles there may be one Bifhop to a Province, to a Kingdom, to an Empire, to the World. When all the fubordinate Bifhopricks were taken down to make up this Diocefane Church ofLincoln which I live in, the Church was One, which be- fore was many. And if all the Bithops were taken down except the two Archbifhops, the two remainingChurches I confefs would be of the fame fpe- cies with a Diocefe. Yea, if there were but One Church and Bilhop in the Land. And why might not all Europe on thefe terms make one particular Church ? Ifyou fay, Becaufe they are not under one King, I anfwer, r. That's, no reafon : A King is a Civil extrinfick Accidental head of a Church as a. Church ; and not a Conftitutive Head : But a Bifhop is an Intrinfecal, Eccle- fiaftical Conftitutive head, without whom it is no Church (unlefs.equivo_. cally.) a. Ten Kings may agree to give way to One Bifhop in all tllir King- doms (as theyhave done to the Papacy.) 3. The Roman Empirewas bigger, than Europe : Whythen might not that have been one only Church. ofthe fame Species with a Diocefe ? . If they fay that it is becaufe one man is not capable ofdoing the work ofa: Whop for fo many Countreys. IAnfwer, Per fe, he cannot do it for the hun- dredth part ofa Diocefe : Per alios he may do it for all Europe : It is but ap- pointingCome whohall appoint others, who fhall appoint others, ( and fo to the.
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