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And I will add yet one question more, If there be not above two or three (or at last no) Church-assemblies in a County, which have Nonconforming Ministers, and opportunity to worship God as Churches; would you have all the rest of the Countries dissolve their Church-assemblies, or forbear all, and live like Unbelievers? If so, I am a Separatist from such destructive Principles and Separations.

D. O.

3. Argument, That in religious Worship which derogates from the Kingly Office of Jesus Christ, so far as it doth so, is false Worship. Unto the Office of Christ, it inseparably belongs that he be the sole Lawgiver of the Church, in all the Worship of God. The rule of his Government herein is, Teach men to do and observe whatsoever I command. But the Worship treated about, consists wholly in the Institutions, Commands, Prescriptions, Orders and Rules of Men; and on the Authority of men alone doth their Impositions on the practice of the Church depend. What is this, but to renounce the Kingly Office of Christ in the Church?

3. Argument, That in religious Worship which derogates from the Kingly Office of Iesus Christ, so far as it doth so, is false Worship. Unto the Office of Christ, it inseparably belongs that he be the sole Lawgiver of the Church, in all the Worship of God. The rule of his Government herein is, Teach men to do and observe whatsoever I command. But the Worship treated about, consists wholly in the Institutions, Commands, Prescriptions, Orders and Rules of Men; and on the Authority of men alone doth their Impositions on the practice of the Church depend. What is this, but to renounce the Kingly Office of Christ in the Church?