and Adminifiration ofOrdinances,vindicated. 167 and his promife for its accomplifhment , that the Church and all its Ordinances of Woríhip fhould be continued al- ways unto the end of the world. So as to the Church it- fell Matth. i6. 18. Rev. 2f. 3. The Mini Matth. 28. 20. Ephef. 4, I. Baptifm, Matth. 28. 18, 19, 20. The L erdsSupper, i Con 11.26. As for other Inthftuti- ons, Publick Prayer, Preaching the Word,the Lords day, Pinging of Gods Prayfes, the exercife of Difcipline with what belongs thereunto, they have their foundation in the Lain and Light of Nature, being only directed and applied unto the Gofpel-Churchflate and Woríhip, by Rules of efpecial Inthitution ; and they can no more ceafe, than the original Obligation of that Law can fo do. If it be laid, that notwithftanding what may be thus pleaded, yet defacto, the true fiate ofGofpel - Churches, and their whole Woríhip as unto its Original Inthitution did fail under the Papal ApoVary , and therefore may do fo again : I Anfwer, (i.) We do not plead that this. Bate of things mutt be always vifible and confpicuous, wherein all Protefiant Writers do agree. It is acknow- ledged, that as unto publick View, Obfervatioa and Notoriety, all there things were loft under the Papacy, and may be fo again under a renewed Apofiacy. (2.) I do not plead it to be neceffary de fallo , that there fhould be really at all times, a true vifiblé Church, as..: the feat of all Ordinances and Adminiflrations in the World ; but all fuch Churches may fail , not only as unto Vilbility, but as unto their Exiftence. But this Suppofition of a failure of all Inttituted Churches and Woríhip, I grant only with there Limitations. (I.) That it is of Neceflìty from innumerable Divine Promif:s, and the nature of Chrifl's Kingly Office, that there be al- ways in the world a number greater or !effer offincere Believers,
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