( 99 ) Communion with the refl. 2. Whether a Church (hall begreat or fmall, that is, of what number it (hall conf¡R,fuppofingthat it benot fo great or fofmall as to be inconffient with the end. 3. How many Paflors each Church (hall have. q.. WhetheramongmanyOne (hall be a Chief, and upon fuppoftion ofhis pre- eminence in Parts, Grace,Age,and Experience,(hall voluntarily be fo far fubmit- ted to by the reft, as may give him a Negative voice. q. Whether fuch offi- cers ofmany Churches, (hall confociate fo as to ioyn in Claffes or Synods Rated for number, time andplace. And whether their meetings (hall be confiant, or occafional pro re nata. 6. Whether One in thefe meetings (hall be aRated Mo- derator, or only pro tempore, and (hall have a Negative voice or not, in the circumfiantials of their Synodical work. 7. Whether certain Agreements called Canons, (hall be made voluntarily to bind up the feveral Members of the Synods to one and the fame way in undetermined circumliances oftheir call- ings; or as an agreement and fecondary obligation to their certain duties. 8. Whether thefe Affociations or Synods (hall by their Delegates confiture other provincial or largeraffociations for thefame Ends : Who thofe Delegates (hall be. Whether one in thofe larger Synods alto-[hall have fuch a Negative as aforefaid. All thefeand fuch like we grant to be undetermined : And if they will call only fuch Humane modes and circumfiances by the name ofForms of Government, we quarrel notde nomine, but de re do grant that fuch kind of Forms or Formalities are not particularly determined ofin Gods word. 9. And betides all thefe, whether fucceffors of the Apoiles in the ordinary partof their work, as A. Bilhops or General Minifers havingthe careof many inferiour Bifhops and Churches, be not Lawful, yea, of Divine right, or whe- ther they be unlawful is a queflion which all Nonconformifls are not agreed on among themfelves, fo great is the difficulty of it. But for my own part, being unfatisfied in it, I never prefumed to meddle in any Ordinations, left it fhould belong to Apoftolical A. Bithops only ; and I refolved to fubmit herein to the order ofthe Church whereverI fhould live. III. But if you hold that Dr. Stillingßéet, Bithop Reynolds, and all thole Conformiftswho fay that no Church Form is jure divino neeefjario, do extend this ( as exprefly they do) to the Diocefane Form, Let it be obferved, r. That we plead for no more than we have proved, ( and they will confefs I think ) to be jure divino. 2. And that we plead againflfwearing andfubfcribing to no- thing but what they themfelves fay is not of Gods inllitution. 3. That the proper Prelatifts affirm it tobi of Divine Inflitution, or elfe they will renounce it. 4. That thepreface ofthe book of Ordination to which we mull fubfcribe or declare A(fent and Content, doth make this Epifcopacy to be a diRind Or- der from Presbyters, as a thing certain by Gods word. This therefore I won- der bow they can fubfcribe to, who fayno Form is jure divino: I am Cure they perfmade us not to fubfcribe it, while they difproveit. And iwould have leave to debate the Cafe of the ChurchofEngland a little with theft Humanitts, and to ask them, If no Church Form be of Godsma- king, i. Why may not 'the Kingand Parliament put it down as aforefaid ? N 2 2, But
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