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VI. That even so it is in the Church, which is one Political Body under Christ, containing particular Churches subordinately informed by their proper Pastors.

VI. That even so it is in the Church, which is one Political Body under Christ, containing particular Churches subordinately in•ormed by their proper Pastors.

VII. That a Confederacy of these Pastors is very useful, for agreement to observe the Laws of Christ, and to make such Local By-Laws as Corporations may do by Charter, to determine their own Circumstances which the Law of the Land determines not, each Church hath power, which many may agree to use, allowing necessary variety: And the Magistrate may determine that which is not proper to the Pastor's Office for ⟨p. 52⟩many. But the concord of these Associated Confederates, can make no Law, but contract; nor any proper new Church-form, save as improperly called a Church from Accidents. If the Saxon Heptarchs had agreed to govern all their Kingdoms by strict consent, this had not made another Kingdom or Law; they had not been made One Kingdom by such a Confederacy, but many Kingdoms agreeing as one Community of Equals.

VIII. The Relation that all Pastors have to the Universal Church, will enable any of them, more or fewer, confederate or not, ex authoritate Ministri & Nuncii, to tell any other Bishops or Churches of heinous scandalous sin, and admonish them, and renounce Communion with the impenitent, and exhort people to forsake Heretic Bishops, &c. But all this as Equals, and not as the fixed Overseers of other Churches, nor as Rulers of other Pastors: And so one Martin may do by a Synod of Bishops.