The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…

2. Those Assemblies which intentionally meet but as parts of the lowest Political Church, and those that intentionally meet as the whole or main Body of that Political Church, are not of the same Species and Definition. (No more than a Squadron, and a Captain's Company, or Troop; or a Family, and a Village or Town.) But, &c.

If Bishops deny all the Lord's Chaplains to have the governing power of the Keys, and their Family-Chapels to be true Political Churches of the same Species and Definition with a Diocesan Church, or a Parochial; do you confute them if you can, I cannot. But if I prove that every Parochial, or other proper Political Church infimae Speciei, should by Divine Order have a Pastor that hath the governing power of the Keys, and the Bishops deny them any such, and will have but one such in a Diocese; do you defend them if you can, I cannot: Nor are these Cases the same.

If Bishops deny all the Lord's Chaplains to have the governing power of the Keys, and their Family-Chappels to be true Political Churches of the same Species and Definition with a Diocesan Church, or a Parochial; do you confute them if you can, I cannot. But if I prove that every Parochial, or other proper Political Church infimae Speciei, should by Divine Order have a Pastor that hath the governing power of the Keys, and the Bishops deny them any such, and will have but one such in a Diocess; do you defend them if you can, I cannot: Nor are these Cases the same.

§ 11. My next Error, He cannot tell whether I hold or no: But it seems I do; against compelling Men to take whom the Magistrate please for their Pastors: For I make Covenanting Essential, as between a Husband and Wife; likening the Church Universal to a Kingdom, and particular Churches to Cities and Corporations.] And here he talks of the Corporation Oath, and exclaimeth [Is ⟨p. 168⟩