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§. 10. And if men at such Classes, and Councils choose one to keep order as a moderator, yea if they ⟨p. 110⟩fix him, it is but the circumstantiating of the Assemblies work: But if he will claim hereupon a distinct order, office, and proper political Church relation, so as hence to make himself the Regent part of a species of a Church, yea and claim this as of God and unalterable, I cannot justify such a Church-form.

§. 10. And if men at such Classes, and Councils choose one to keep order as a moderator, yea if they ⟨p. 110⟩fix him, it is but the circumstantiating of the Assemblies work: But if he will claim hereupon a distinct order, office, and proper political Church relation, so as hence to make himself the Regent part of a species of a Church, yea and claim this as of God and unalterable, I cannot justifie such a Church-form.

§. 11. This holds as to the Presidents of all ranks of Synods, Classical, Diocesan, Metropolitical, Provincial, National or Patriarchal. To use them as Presidents of Councils for Concord is one thing; and to use them as the Pars Imperans, or the constitutive heads of a distinct Church-species is another. Arch-Bishop Usher told me himself his judgement, that Councils were but for Counsel and Concord, and not for the Government of each other or any of the members; and that they had no proper Governing power either over their Minor part, or over any absent Bishops: Though each Bishop was still the Governor of his own flock, and their power over their flocks was exercised with the greater advantage by their Concord in Councils. Diets and Councils of distinct independent Bishops are not distinct forms of policy or Churches.

§. 11. This holds as to the Presidents of all ranks of Synods, Classical, Diocesan, Metropolitical, Provincial, National or Patriarchal. To use them as Presidents of Councils for Concord is one thing; and to use them as the Pars Imperans, or the constitutive heads of a distinct Church-species is another. Arch-Bishop Vsher told me himself his judgement, that Councils were but for Counsel and Concord, and not for the Government of each other or any of the members; and that they had no proper Governing power either over their Minor part, or over any absent Bishops: Though each Bishop was still the Governour of his own flock, and their power over their flocks was exercised with the greater advantage by their Concord in Councils. Dyets and Councils of distinct independent Bishops are not distinct forms of policy or Churches.