And such all the particular Churches of the whole world, considered together, under the Supreme Head Christ Jesus, dispensing them all by himself, and administering them severally, not by one Oeconomus, but by the several Bishops, as inferior Heads of Unity to the several bodies, so constituted by the several Apostles in their plantations, each of them having an [Greek or Hebrew], a several distinct commission from Christ immediately, and subordinate to none but the supreme Donor or Plenipotentiary—And before, so was every such regular Assembly of Christians under a Bishop, an Oeconomus set over by Christ (the house of God)—Mark all this then, and let your Impositions be measured by this Rule; so that either you will have the many Churches in one Kingdom, to be united on terms of Regiment, or only on terms of Concord. On the terms of the extrinsic accidental Regiment, we grant that all the Kings Subjects are united, and that he hath power circa sacra: But so you might have said of all the Roman Empire; And so if the Christian part of the World had all one Monarchy, your own Concession must be overthrown (that neighbour Churches must unite on necessary terms, leaving indifferent ones to liberty); or else you will see that the case of the Catholic Church, under such an Empire, would be the same with a National Church under one King: And our Churches are as much to be accounted Neighbour-Churches, as those in such an Empire would be. But if you speak of one Essential, Constitutive, Ecclesiastical Head and Governor, we know none such, any more than one Pope. Therefore it must be an Union of Concord, by which you call many Churches in a Nation one (or an extrinsic accidental Union). And consequently it is an improper speech, because it is not locutio formalis, sed accidentalis; for the form denominateth. We being therefore One Church but Accidentally (by one King, and by Concord, as several agreeing Churches may be called), it followeth that we must hold our Concord accordingly, with those at home, as well as with those abroad, upon terms of equal charity and liberty, ⟨p. 217⟩(except what the King will take away). For as for Councils, even General ones (much more Provincial, it is not Bishop Ushers opinion only, but ordinary with Protestants, that they are to the particular Bishops not directly Regimental, but means of Agreement.
And such all the particular Churches of the whole world, considered together, under the Supreme Head Christ Jesus, dispensing them all by himself, and administring them severally, not by one Oeconomus, but by the several Bishops, as inferior Heads of Unity to the several bodies, so constituted by the several Apostles in their plantations, each of them having an 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a several distinct commission from Christ immediately, and subordinate to none but the supreme Donor or Plenipotentiary—And before, so was every such regular Assembly of Christians under a Bishop, an Oeconomus set over by Christ (the house of God)—Mark all this then, and let your Impositions be measured by this Rule; so that either you will have the many Churches in one Kingdom, to be united on terms of Regiment, or only on terms of Concord. On the terms of the extrinsick accidental Regiment, we grant that all the Kings Subjects are united, and that he hath power circa sacra: But so you might have said of all the Roman Empire; And so if the Christian part of the World had all one Monarchy, your own Concession must be overthrown (that neighbour Churches must unite on necessary terms, leaving indifferent ones to liberty); or else you will see that the case of the Catholick Church, under such an Empire, would be the same with a National Church under one King: And our Churches are as much to be accounted Neighbour-Churches, as those in such an Empire would be. But if you speak of one Essential, Constitutive, Ecclesiastical Head and Governour, we know none such, any more than one Pope. Therefore it must be an Union of Concord, by which you call many Churches in a Nation one (or an extrinsick accidental Union). And consequently it is an improper speech, because it is not locutio formalis, sed accidentalis; for the form denominateth. We being therefore One Church but Accidentally (by one King, and by Concord, as several agreeing Churches may be called), it followeth that we must hold our Concord accordingly, with those at home, as well as with those abroad, upon terms of equal charity and liberty, ⟨p. 217⟩(except what the King will take away). For as for Councils, even General ones (much more Provincial, it is not Bishop Ushers opinion only, but ordinary with Protestants, that they are to the particular Bishops not directly Regimental, but means of Agreement.
