The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…

2. It is sufficient as 1. Assigning the true specifying end, 2. and avoiding all extremes.

2. It is sufficient as 1. Assigning the true specifying end, 2. and avoiding all extreams.

1. It assigneth the true end: For that Churches of such a sort, for that end were settled by the Apostles, none deny: 2. It justly differenceth them from all other societies: 1. There may be occasional meetings of Part of a Church, for want of room, or liberty, in private houses, Chapels, or Oratories; Independents, Presbyterians and Diocesans grant this: But these still acknowledge themselves to be but parts of a larger society consenting to the same specifying ends; and assembling sometimes with that larger body and sometimes apart, by reason of impediments, (age, weakness, distance, weather, persecution &c): And though a Parish (as many) have far more than can meet at once together, yet, 1. Still the ends of the association is for that sort of Communion: 2. Some of a family may meet one day and some another and some a third. 3. Every error and corruption altereth not the species of the Church: The individuals that fail and absent themselves make not Parochial Communion to be another thing for other ends. A Parochial Church then is the lowest and first true species of Churches.

2. And this distinguisheth it from all Compound Churches, which are not for Present Ordinary Communion in public worship and Discipline, but only for Distant Communion by Officers, Delegates or Letters.

2. And this distinguisheth it from all Compound Churches, which are not for Present Ordinary Communion in publick worship and Discipline, but only for Distant Communion by Officers, Delegates or Letters.