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§. 5. Here still it is supposed that the Spirit in the Apostles, who were designed to be founders and master-builders, and to gather and order Churches, and teach them to observe all Christs commands, was Christs promised Agent (as Tertullian calls him) and that Christ did what the Spirit did by the Apostles in their proper work, to which he was promised them as their Guide; as it is aforesaid.

§. 6. And that Christ and his Apostles instituted sacred ordinary Assemblies of Christians for holy worship and Communion, is so clear in the New Testament that it were vain to prove it.

§. 7. And 2. as notorious and past doubt it is that the end of these Assemblies was such as is here mentioned; 3. And as plain that such Pastors as are here described were set over all these Congregations, and authorized and obliged to the foresaid work, that is under Christ the great Teacher, Priest and Ruler of the Church, to Teach them Gods word, to intercede under Christ for them to God, and from Christ to them in prayer and Sacraments, &c. and to Guide them by that called the Keys of the Church, discerning whom to receive by Baptism, whom to reprove, exhort, comfort or absolve, Act. 14. 23. Act. 20. 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1. and many other places show this.

§. 7. And 2. as notorious and past doubt it is that the end of these Assemblies was such as is here mentioned; 3. And as plain that such Pastors as are here described were set over all these Congregations, and authorized and obliged to the foresaid work, that is under Christ the great Teacher, Priest and Ruler of the Church, to Teach them Gods word, to intercede under Christ for them to God, and from Christ to them in prayer and Sacraments, &c. and to Guide them by that called the Keyes of the Church, discerning whom to receive by Baptism, whom to reprove, exhort, comfort or absolve,