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§. 11. 4. The Pastors and flock are the essential constitutive parts: It may be a Community without a Pastor, but not a Policy, or Ecclesiastical Society. While the Pastor liveth it is such a Church in esse existente: when the Pastor is dead, it is an existent Community, and virtually and morally a Political Church, because by the Law and the peoples resolution another is to be seasonably chosen. As an elective Kingdom in the interregnum is virtually and morally a Kingdom: But if the purpose of choosing a Successor be changed, the Kingdom and so the Church is dissolved, or changed into somewhat else.

§. 11. 4. The Pastors and flock are the essential constitutive parts: It may be a Community without a Pastor, but not a Policie, or Ecclesiastical Society. While the Pastor liveth it is such a Church in esse existente: when the Pastor is dead, it is an existent Community, and virtually and morally a Political Church, because by the Law and the peoples resolution another is to be seasonably chosen. As an elective Kingdom in the interregnum is virtually and morally a Kingdom: But if the purpose of chosing a Successour be changed, the Kingdom and so the Church is dissolved, or changed into somewhat else.

§. 12. 5. It is indifferent to the being (though not usually to the well-being) of a Church, whether it have one Pastor or many.

§. 13. 6. The number of the people though not precisely determined must be competent to the Ends of the Society: If it be Greater or smaller than is necessary to the Ends, it is no Church of this defined species: As Logicians say of the subject of other relations: If a Boat or Ship be no bigger than a spoon, it is not a Boat or Ship, but equivocally: And it may be so big as to be no Boat or Ship, when it is uncapable of the Ends. A Family is too small to be a City: And a Kingdom or the world is too big. Dispositio materiae est necessaria ad receptionem formae.