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Prop. 14. Lastly we shall grant, that where Pastors cannot through distance or other Impediments, hold Synods, or any particular Churches cannot send any competent members to such Synods, yet may they, when its needful, by messengers certify each other of their faith, professions, practises, and particular doubts and cases, and so hold communion, in some degree; owning each other as Brethren in one Lord, and by such intercourse of Messengers and Letters as we are capable of, assisting, and seeking assistance from each other: As Basil and the rest of the Eastern Bishops did to the Western in their distress while they had hope. And the faith of all the Churches that are near enough for any external communion, being thus known, their Literae Communicatoriae may be valid and satisfactory, when any member passeth into other parts.

Prop. 14. Lastly we shall grant, that where Pastors cannot through distance or other Impediments, hold Synods, or any particular Churches cannot send any competent members to such Synods, yet may they, when its needfull, by messengers certifie each other of their faith, professions, practises, and particular doubts and cases, and so hold communion, in some degree; owning each other as Brethren in one Lord, and by such intercourse of Messengers and Letters as we are capable of, assisting, and seeking assistance from each other: As Basil and the rest of the Eastern Bishops did to the Western in their distress while they had hope. And the faith of all the Churches that are neer enough for any externall communion, being thus known, their Literae Communicatoriae may be valid and satisfactory, when any member passeth into other parts.

Thus far I hope we are Agreed: This much I am sure we hold our selves: But now the difference followeth.

We hold that this Universal Church (which is one in Christ their Head, as the world is one Kingdom in God the absolute Sovereign King) is by Christ distributed into many Congregations, dispersed over the face of the Earth, and that these as several Corporations in one Kingdom, have all their particular Governors and Order. All forcible Government we ascribe to the Magistrate, and deny it to the Pastors of the Church. And that teaching and Guidance which is called Ecclesiastic Government, we suppose is the work of every Pastor in his flock, and the Ordering of the communion of Churches, by Canons, Agreements (and their execution in part) is the work of Synods. And as in this Kingdom, all the Free-schools are governed by the Schoolmasters, who are all under the Prince and Laws, without any General Schoolmasters to Teach, or Oversee, and Rule the rest, (and without Synods too, though they may