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Your Conclusion also is a Mistake.¹ This is not to renounce the Kingly Office of Christ in the Church, no more than you did, when you wrote your Savoy-Articles of Confession, or ⟨p. 32⟩when you draw up the Form of a Church-Covenant for your Flock. All that is a Sin against Christs Kingly Office, is not a renouncing of it.

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4. Argument. That which gives Testimony against the Faithfulness of Christ in his House, as a Son and Lord of it, above that of a Servant, is not to be complied withal; let all his Disciples judge. Unto this Faithfulness of Christ it doth belong to appoint and command all things whatever in the Church, that belongs to the Worship of God, as is evident from this Comparison with Moses herein, and his preference above him. Hebr. 3.3, 4, 5 6. But that Institution and Prescription of all things in Religious Worship, of things never instituted nor prescribed by Christ in the Forms and Modes of them, ariseth from a supposition of a defect in the Wisdom, Care, and Faithfulness of Christ; Whence alone a necessity can arise of prescribing that in Divine Worship, that he hath not prescribed.

4. Argument. That which gives Testimony against the Faithfulness of Christ in his House, as a Son and Lord of it, above that of a Servant, is not to be complied withall; let all his Disciples judge. Unto this Faithfulness of Christ it doth belong to appoint and command all things whatever in the Church, that belongs to the Worship of God, as is evident from this Comparison with Moses herein, and his preference above him.