(98) I Per. s. unfetlednefs. 5. And that thefe fetléd Paflars fhould live among the People, 2> 3 and watch over them perfonally, and know them, and be known of them in & Tim doctrine and enfample, as to the main body of the flock. 6. That thefe Re- 5, grc. lotions and Communion be by mutual confent oldie Parlors and the body of r tor. r6. the flock. 7. That thefe mutual Relations of Godsappointment and their own 1, 2. confent do conllitute them. a fpiritual fociety of Divine inflitution. 8. That r tor.' r. this Communionmuff be ( asour Creed calleth it a Communion ofSaints : Nine . that is, ofmen profelling Chriflianity and Holinefs) and feeming fuch : And mat.r8.15 mutt extend to afreeCommunication to each other, for the fupplyof corporal îír.3. Io. neceflìtits ; And to a mutualafliftance ofeach other in holy living. g. That therefore there mutt be fome to difcern and judge whether the perfons that would enter this Society and Communion, be Profefled feeming Chrifiians and Saints or not ? And whether they revolt by Herefie or wicked lives from their profeilion ? And whether they be impenitent in there revoltings ? And therefore having opportunity by pretence or nearnefsto know them and the witneffes, muff judge of the credibility ofreports or accufations ? And muff admonifh the offenders, and feek by all poflible convidtion and exhortation, with patience to draw themto Repentance: And ifno perfwafionwill prevail; to refufe to admit them to the Communionofthe Church, and to deliver them the Sacrament ofCommunion, and to tell them openlyoftheir finand danger, and.pronounce them lyable to Gods wrath till they do repent, and to charge the Church to avoid Communion with them. ro. It is the particular Pallors ofthofe Churches, to whole office all this belongeth. at. Ifthat .Church have snorePaffors than one, they mutt: do all this work in concord, andnot divide nor thwart eachother. So that as many Phyficians undertake one Patient, as eachone Tingly ofthe fame office, andyet mutt do all by agreerheut, unlers . fome one feethat therefit wouldkill the patient , fo it is in thiscafe. 12. All there particularChurches mull in their vicinities and capacities,live in Concord, and hold fuch a correfpondency, and Communion of Churches for rnutual flrength and edification, as tendeth to the common good of all 'f The means . of which are Meffengers, Letters, andSynods as there is occafion. t111 there twelve particulars I doubt not but fo judicious and worthy a than as Dr. Stii'ingfleet will early concede. And indeed the fumme of them is granted in his book. And then whether you will call this a Form ofGovernment or not, how little care I for the meer name ? 13. I may add this much more, that All there Congregations are under the extrinfick Government of the Ma- giurate, as. Phyficians are And he only can rule them by the fword and force. But then we will agreewith Dr. Sti1ingffeet or any man, that God bath left all there things followingwithoutaparticular determination to be determined. according to his General laws. a. Whether this Parochial or Congregational Church fhallalways meet in one and the fame place ;_ or in cafe ofperfecution . or want ofroom, or by reafon of the Age, Weaknefs, and difianceof Come Members, may have feveral hordes. or Chappels of tale, where fore parceli . away fometimes meet, who yet (at Lealper vices ) . may have perfonal prefent Communion;
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