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7ER.xz.
Fphefaans,Chap.r.
'!q1=
_.;
Sixtly
and
laftly,he doth not
confirm
that
as
he
confirmeth
us;
for he
hath neither gotten by'
his
death
for them
this grace
of
perfeverance
to
the end,
neither
Both he fhadow
them
and
follow them with
ayds
outward and
inward,
as he
doth
us, left
our faith
fhou.1d
be
prevailed,
againft ;
they have beene
no
doubt confirmed from the
beginning
both by force
of
their election,
and
preventing them 'with
aéì:uall
grace,
which
made them
with effeít
execute what
ever'
-thing
it
was
in
which
it pleafed
God to prove their obedience; if they
have' any
confirmation
from
Chrift
their King,itis
finch
an one as
doth
make
them
thong
to
fubdue
evil)
Angels
,
or
any oppofing them
in bufineffes,
in
which their miniftery by Chrift
is
imployed,
filch
ari
one may
bega-
thered,Dan.to.r3.
First
then,
feeing
Chrift
is
given
us
as a
head fo neerely end.commu=
1'f
t.
nicatively joyned unto
us, let
us
abhorre
that
facrilegious ufurpation
which the Pope committeth, while
he
challengeth
us
to
be head
of
the
Church;Thatwhich the
Scripture
doth attribute
as
proper to
rift,
is not
to be given
to
any
other
:
But
they
diftinguifh,
that the
Scr
re
maketh
Chrift the
principal! and invifible
head,but
this hinders no
why
there
fhould
not be
a
vifible
fecondary minifteriall head.
c.1nf. There
needeth
not
a minifteriall head
to
fupply
Chrifts bodily
abfence.;
For
as
Kings are in
body
prefent at
Court
onely
,
and
yet well
enough
governe their bodies
politicke; So Chrift
in regard
of
his
:bodily
prefence inheaven,
can
well
enough
rule
that part
of
his
body
in earth,
without the fupply
of
a
vifible
head.
Were
the Pope
a
minifteriall
head,
he might doe
that which the
principali,
wholeroome
he
fupplieth,
as
Viceroyes doe,
that
in
the kingdomesover which they
are
let, which
the
Kings
might
doe
in
their owne perlons, whole
roomtsthey
fupply;
But
the Pope cannot doe
any
inward
thing which
the
head
of
the
Church
is
to
performe.
3.
Were
there
a
minifteriall head,'.
there
fhould
-be a
Lord
-like
power over part
of
the Church
out
of
Chrifts
perfon
in
force othercreature
;
then
fhould
there be more Lords then one,con-
trary
to
that
in r
Car. 12.5 .There
ore
divilions
of
miniileries;
but
one
Lord.
Looke
as
great Lords
in
earth have
in
their houles
minifteries
of
more
and
leffe
honor,
from the Reward to
the
skullerie,
but
no
Lord
-like
or
`
Mailer-
like
power
in
any betide
themlelves;fo
is
in
Chrift
&his
Church,
which
is
the houle
of
God,
wherein
he is
the Lord,
Apoftles, others;
having more
or
leffe
honourablefervices, but no Mafter.likepower
o-
ver
the
meaneft
of
their fellow-fervants.
We
fee
hence
the
great grace.
of
Chrift, who doth
fo neerely unite yfe
z:
him
felfe
with
us.Kings
inearth,the
fleeter
they come to
any'Subjed,the
more
they
fhew
Their
love;
but
this
is
the greateft grace they
can
thew,
when they
make
them
felves
to become
one
with
any
of
their
fubje&s r
Thus Chrift
could
not
fhery
usgreater grace
then to
make
us
one
with
him
felfe as a
conjugall head, ruling'over us.
We
fee
hence,
that
we may afiäre our
felves
we
Mall
lack
nothing,
who
have
Chrift
become
á
head
to
us,
in
fo
neere and communicative
fort,
as
this
is
r
There
are fume
official)
parts in -the
body,
which.
S
have