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And it is utterly improbable that there would have been no dissenters? For, 1. Did no Christians in the world so near to the Apostles days make any scruple of superstition? or of such an addition ⟨p. 58⟩to Divine institutions? 2. Was there no Country, nor no persons whose interest would not better suit with another day, or an uncertain day? or at least their opinions? when we find it now so hard a matter to bring men in one Country, to be all of one opinion. 3. And there was then no Magistrate to f•rce them to such an Union; And therefore it mast be voluntary. 4. And they had in the second age such Pastors as the Apostles themselves had ordained, and as had conversed with them, and been trained up by them and knew their mind, and cannot soberly be thought likely to consent all on a sudden to such a new institution, without and contrary to the Apostles sense and practice. 5. Yea, they had yet Ministers that had that extraordinary spirit which was given by the laying on of the Apostles hands: For if the aged Apostles ordained young men, it is to be supposed that most of those young men, (such as Timothy) overlived them. 6. Yea and the ordinary Christians in those times had those extraordinary gifts by the laying on of the Apostles hands, as appeareth evidently in the case of Samaria, Act. 8. and of the Corinthians, 1 Cor. 12. & 14. and of the Galatians, Gal. 3. 1, 2, 3. And it is not to be suspected that all these inspired Ministers and people would consent to a superstitious innovation, without and against the Apostles minds.

And it is utterly improbable that there would have been no dissenters? For, 1. Did no Christians in the world so neer to the Apostles daies make any scruple of superstition? or of such an addition ⟨p. 58⟩to Divine institutions? 2. Was there no Countrey, nor no persons whose interest would not better suit with another day, or an uncertain day? or at least their opinions? when we find it now so hard a matter to bring men in one Countrey, to be all of one opinion. 3. And there was then no Magistrate to frce them to such an Union; And therefore it mast be voluntary. 4. And they had in the second age such Pastors as the Apostles themselves had ordained, and as had conversed with them, and been trained up by them and knew their mind, and cannot soberly be thought likely to consent all on a sudden to such a new institution, without and contrary to the Apostles sense and practice. 5. Yea, they had yet Ministers that had that extraordinary spirit which was given by the laying on of the Apostles hands: For if the aged Apostles ordained young men, it is to be supposed that most of those young men, (such as Timothy) overlived them. 6. Yea and the ordinary Christians in those times had those extraordinary gifts by the laying on of the Apostles hands, as appeareth evidently in the case of Samaria,