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ois
the Excellency
of
Chrift.
but
hee alone
makes
Laws.
It
is
trite, the
Kings
of
Jfrael
they made
not
the
people
;oyn
with them in all
their
Laws,
becaufe
God
himfelf
let
Laws
there
for
the
government
of
the
Commonwealth.
But Jefus
Chrift, I
fay,hee
is
the
onely
;Law-giver
unto
his
Church
, and therefore there
can bee
no
new Ordinances,
nor no new Laws,
nor no new
Officers
in
the
Church
that can
bee
invented
by
man
:
It
is
true,in
the
Civil
f
}ate,
there God Laves to humane prudence,
and wee
may
invent
Laws
and humane
Ordinances,
and new
Offi-
cers,fo
as
may
bee
good
for the Church, one Kingdome
one
kinde of Law ,
and
another,
another
;
But now
when
wee
come to
(peak
of
Chrifts Kingly
Power,
efpecially
as
it
bath
reference to
the
Church ,
there,
as
hee
is
King
of
Saints,
there
are no
Ordinances,
nor no Laws , nor
no
officers
that
can bee
newly ere&ed,
but it
mull
bee the
fame, and
it
muff
be the
fame
in all Churches in
the World
, the
fame
Laws
muff
rule
all
, and the
faine
Ordinances
,
and the
fame
Church-
officers,
there
mull bee no additions
of
any; Why?
laecaufe
that in
Spiritual
government,
there
wee wait
upon
God
for
his
prefence
;
wee wait upon the
prefence
of
Chrifi
to
work
fpiritually
upon
the
foul, and wee
expe& à fpiritual
efficacy
from Jefus Chrifi upon our fouls,
to
draw
us
nearer
to him
,
and
to
draw him near
to us,
that
wee
do in
all
Church Ordinances
;
and therefore onely Chrift can
ap-
point
Laws for
them.
You
will fay,
Can
there
bee
no
Laws,
no
nothing added
in
the
(
horch for
way
of
decency
and
order
,
and
fuch
kinde
of
things
?
To that I
anfwer briefly thus,
There
are
fome things that
do belong
to
thofe
fpiritual Ordinances
,
things
that
are
in
the
Church
that
may
bee helpful
to them
in
a
natural
way;
as
now
if
congregations
meet they
muff
meet in
fome place,
they
mull
have civil
order in their meeting , there
may
bee
come
things civil
and
natural
fubfervient
unto
thofe
things
that
are
fpiritual;
but
that
that
is
properly
Ecclefiaftical
whereby
I
vvait
upon
Jefus
Chrift
`to
have
my
heart drawn
nearer
to
him
,
or
to
have
him dravv nearer to mee
therein,
there