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3"h,erd{irence
between Independency
canci
Presbytery,
477
in any
l'a
f
orail
Relation
to come
and
preach
,
and adniinifler,
Sacraments
but
in this
Congregation,
yet
they
think
that
by
joyning
with
others
his
Riling
power
IhalI have an
extent
to
a
hundred or
a
thouflnd Congregations, that
his face
never
flaw,
when
as
the
Pafiorall
charge of
his
for
Word
and
Sacra
-.
ments, Both
extend
in
an
ordinary
way-
but to
one
:
Now
for
my
part who
ever
thinks
there
is
a
greater Controverfie
in
thefe
two,
but
this
I
ant (peaking of,
he fees further then
I
can
doe
in
ir.
---
Here
the Controverfie
mainely
lies, whether
the
Ruling power
of
any
Mini(ler extend
farther
then
hisPa-
loral!
power for
Word
and Sacraments,
whether
he bath
the
charge
of others, to.rule them together
with
others,
and
not
the charge'
of them
in
atl
equall
way
to
feed them
In
Word
and
Sacraments
;
Now
I
doe
not come
to
plead this
way,
or
that
way, for
either fide, but
onely
fo
farre
as
may
be
for
peace.
If
the Controverfie
lies
here,
I
appeale
to
your
Confcien-
ces,
are
you fo
certaine;
fo fore
of onefide, that
you
can joyne
in
a
violent oppofition of the
other
:
Is
one
fo
cleare
and
evi-
dent
to
you,
as
you
can
take upon you,
as you
would anfwer
it
before
Chr
if},'t'o
ufe
all
the power
of
Civil!
Magill-racy,
for
to
fórce
one,or
the
other
fide;Fror fo
I
fpeak of
either;
for
I
would
accoúnt
it
a
very great
evill for
thofe that
pro;(fe
Indepen-
dency ,
to
'force
fuch as profehfe
-Presbytery to
be
of their
minds
or pra
&ife; And
fo
I
think'it
will
not
be
acceptable
to
Jefus
Chrift
for
the
one
by
a
civili
way
to
force the
;
other,
and
it
will
never prove
to
be the
way
of peace.
--
But now
if
you,will fay,
we will force
them
to doe
fo
It's
true,
you
may
by an
Iron
chaíne
tie
men
dote
together, that
they
(hall not
be
able
to
goe at
fuch
a
diflance
;
But will
that
make
peace here in
the Church óf
Chrifk.
in
refpe& of mens.
hearts.
There
is
one
thing
more
that
I
have
obferved bathbeen
a-
Caufe
of the breaking
of
peace exceedingly
;
And
that is,
the.
mi(lake
of the
point
of íchifine
;
for
that
becaufe we have
that
word
in
the Covenant, Men think
in
Confcience
that.
what
indeed
trulyfchifine, they'are
bound
to
oppofe with
all
their
might