( 219 ) z. The Difipline ofthe Church is that alone for which any Rule or Authority is given unto it or exercifed in it. Authority is given unto theMinifters ofthe Church, todifpenfe the Word, and adminifter the Sacraments 9 which, I know not why, force call the Key of Order. But the only End why the Lord Chrift hath given Ai- thority, or `.Rule, or Power for it unto the Church, or any in it, it is for the Exercife of Difcipline, andno other. Whatever Power, Rule, Dignity, or Preh& minence is al-Famed in the Churches, not meerly for this End, is Ufurpation and Tyranny. 2. The outward means appointed by Jefus Chrift 5 for the Prefervation ofhis Churches, in Order, Peace, and Purity, confifts in this Difcipline. He doth by his Word give Direétions and Commands for this end, and it is byDifcipline alone that they are executed. Where- fore without it, the Church cannot live in its Health, Purity, and Vigor ; the Word and Sacraments are its Spiritual Food, whereon its Life doth depend. But without that Exercife and Medicinal Applications unto its Diftempers, which are made by Difcipline, it cannot live an healthy, vigorous, fruitful Life, in the things of God. 3. This Difcipline is eitherprivate or publicl¿, (I.) That which isprivateconfifts in the mutual watch that all the Members of the Church have over one ano- ther, with Admonitions, Exhortations, and Reproofes, as their Edification doth require. The logs of this Part of the Difciplinê of .Chrift in molt Churches, bath loft us much ofthe GloryofChriftian Profeflion. E e 2 (2.) That
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