( 2;43 ). asunto things Spiritual and Eternal, being meerly niflerial. Every one of thefe Churches were bound by the Command ofChrift to live in Peace, and Vilify through theExercife ofPeculiar fincere and fervent Love among all their Members; as àlfo to walk in'Peace, and ufeful. Communion with all other Churches in the World, ac- cording: as they had opportunityofConvene with them. And when onany occation any Divifionor Schifete fell out among any of their. Members in this Church fiate, it was feverely rebuked by the Apoffles. All thefe Churches and all the Members of them, were obliged by vertue of Divine Inftitution to obey their Guides, to Honour and Reverence them, and by their voluntary Contribution to provide for their .Honourable Sub(i.flence and maintenances according to their Ability. Other Church ftate neither the Scripture nor Antiquity unto the End of the fecond Century do know any thing of; which I {hall hereafter more fully manifeft. Neither was there a-ny thing known, then to be Schifete or fo efteemed, but a Divifion falling out in fome one of thefe Churches 5 which hapned:for the molt part, ifnot onely, by fome oftheir Teachers, filling into herefe and drawingaway Difciples after them, .Acts 20.30.. or by various opinions about their Guides, =rCor. i. I2. or the Ambition offome in fecking the; Powekan*d Au- thority of office among them. To fèek for 'any thing among thofe Churches, wherein our prefent Conteft about Schifete is concerned, is altogether in vain. There was then no fuchJiibordinatiosz of Churches, ofmany un-, to one, as is now-pleaded ; -,No fueh l iftinetion of O5a-, 11 h 2 cers,
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