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2. See here again: When he made it a renouncing our Christianity, to confederate and associate to do mens duty in a particular Church, he yet maketh it necessary to Unity (and so to salvation) by confederacy to make new Humane Church Forms. All this is to bring all mens salvation (opinionatively) into the power of those that can get uppermost; as if men could as easily damn others as themselves.

§ 47. P. 200, 201. saith he [If the Church cannot be a Political Society without one constitutive Regent Head, then the Church is not a Political Society; for it neither has nor can have any such— on Earth over the whole].

Ans. We thank you for that much. But the Church is a Political Society; and to deny it, is to deny an Article of the Creed, and to unchurch it, quoad ipsam formam: And Christ is its constitutive regent Head: The whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named by him; from whom the whole compacted body is increased and edified: And it's dangerous false Doctrine (worse than breaking one of your Canons) to hold, that the Church cannot be a Political Society, unless it have an Head on Earth.

Ans. We thank you for that much. But the Church is a Political Society; and to deny it, is to deny an Article of the Creed, and to unchurch it, quoad ipsam formam: And Christ is its constitutive regent Head: The whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named by him; from whom the whole compacted body is increast and edified: And it's dangerous false Doctrine (worse than breaking one of your Canons) to hold, that the Church cannot be a Political Society, unless it have an Head on Earth.