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§. 2. When the Apostles ordained them Elders in every Church, Act. 14. 23. it signifieth that they settled these Elders as the proper fixed Church-guides of those Churches; Not that they had no Ministerial power elsewhere, but that this was their proper special Charge or Province. As a Licensed Physician that hath a particular Hospital or City, is a Physician every where that he cometh, and not breaking order may exercise his Art, but he may not invade another mans Hospital or Province, nor is bound as the other is to medicate that Hospital, &c. So a Minister of Christ lawfully invited, may Preach and Administer Sacraments, yea and Discipline in ⟨p. 229⟩any other Church pro tempore, not as a Lay-man, but as a Minister in office. But he is not bound to take the Charge of another mans flock, nor may intrude disorderly, but as a helper or on just call.

§. 2. When the Apostles ordained them Elders in every Church, Act. 14. 23. it signifieth that they setled these Elders as the proper fixed Church-guides of those Churches; Not that they had no Ministerial power elsewhere, but that this was their proper special Charge or Province. As a Licensed Physicion that hath a particular Hospital or City, is a Physicion every where that he cometh, and not breaking order may exercise his Art, but he may not invade another mans Hospital or Province, nor is bound as the other is to medicate that Hospital, &c. So a Minister of Christ lawfully invited, may Preach and Administer Sacraments, yea and Discipline in ⟨p. 229⟩any other Church pro tempore, not as a Lay-man, but as a Minister in office. But he is not bound to take the Charge of another mans flock, nor may intrude disorderly, but as a helper or on just call.

§. 3. Titus is appointed to ordain such Elders in every City, which is all one as in every Church: not that every City then had a Church; nor that he was to ordain Elders in the Cities that had no Churches: nor that he was forbidden to ordain Elders in Country Villages: Nor that he was tied either to ordain many Elders in every Church or City, or yet to ordain but One in one City, or one Church. But because de facto there were few or no Villages then that had Christians enow to make a Church of desirable consistence, therefore they were congregate commonly in Cities and great Towns, where the Christians of the neighbour Villages joined with them.