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3. And yet he will have it a Political Society: For he saith, That [for a Political S•ciety to be informed by the One Regent part, is not true of the Church]: which plainly includeth, That the Church is a Political Society, and yet hath not One Regent Head, which is a contradiction. He saith, (The Church must be excepted from Mr. B's Rules and Definitions of […] ).

3. And yet he will have it a Political Society: For he saith, That [for a Politica• S•ciety to be informed by the One Regent part, is not true of the Church]: which plainly includeth, That the Church is a Political Society, and yet hath not One Regent Head, which is a contradiction. He saith, (The Church must be excepted from Mr. B's Rules and Definitions of 〈…〉 ).

Ans. You see to what a pass these men would bring us: As we must have New Rules and Laws of salvation, if we will be of their Church-state; so we must have New Politics, and New Dictionaries: The Church cannot be a species of a Politic Society without New Definitions of Polity. Next say, God's Laws are no Laws, unless you make a New Definition of Laws in genere; and Christians are no Men, without a New definition of a Man.

Ans. You see to what a pass these men would bring us: As we must have New Rules and Laws of salvation, if we will be of their Church-state; so we must have New Politicks, and New Dictionaries: The Church cannot be a species of a Politick Society without New Definitions of Polity. Next say, God's Laws are no Laws, unless you make a New Definition of Laws in genere; and Christians are no Men, without a New definition of a Man.