('222 tense can be taken from hence, for refraining Commu- nion in them. But it will be laid, (t.) That this Difiipline is not to be placed where and in what hands men pleafe, but to be left where Chrift hath difpofed it. (2.) That one Reafon of the unmeetnefs of `Paro- chial Churches for the Exercife of this Diifcipline, is be- caufe they have been unjuftly deprived ofit for fo many Ages. (3.) It is to be enquired,whether thepretended Difci- pline doth in any thing anfwer that which Chrift bath plainly and exprefly ordained. For if a Difcipline fhould be ereEted whole Right of Exercife, is derived from fe- cular Power, whole Adminiftration is committed unto Perfons who pretend not in the leaft unto any Office of Divine Inflitution, as Chancellortrs, Comm f ries, Officials, &c. every way unknown unto Antiquity, forraign un- to the Churches over which theyRule; exercifing their pretended Power of Difcipline, in a way ofCivil Jurif- diction, without the leaft regard unto the Rules or Ends of Evangelical Difcipline, mannaging its Admini- ftratiion in brawlings, contentions, revilings, Fees, pe- cuniary Muffs, &c. in open defiance ofthe Spirit, Ex- ample, Rule, and Commands of our Lord Jefus Chrift, it would be fo far from fupplying this Defeat, that it would exceedingly aggravate the Evil of it. God for- bid, that any Chriftian fhould look on fuch a .Tower of Difcipline, and fuch an Adminifiration of it, to be that which is appointed by Jefus Chrift, or any way parti- cipant ofthe Nature ofit. Ofwhat Expediency it may be unto other ends, I knownot; but unto Ecclellaiical Difcipline it hathnoAlliance, and therefore in its Exer- cife,
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