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§. 27. Were it true that every City in the old sense should have a Bishop and but one, it would follow that every Corporation or great Town or Borough (called Market Towns) in England should have one; the word [[Greek or Hebrew]] signifying such of old. And were it so, and the Country Parishes adjoining made Chapels and distributed accordingly to the several Towns, it would be like the old state of the Church about three hundred and four hundred and five hundred years after Christ, and much better than it is, though not as it should be.

§. 27. Were it true that every City in the old sense should have a Bishop and but one, it would follow that every Corporation or great Town or Borough (called Market Towns) in England should have one; the word [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] signifying such of old. And were it so, and the Countrey Parishes adjoyning made Chapels and distributed accordingly to the several Towns, it would be like the old state of the Church about three hundred and four hundred and five hundred years after Christ, and much better than it is, though not as it should be.

§. 28. 9. The remote ends are mentioned in the definition, viz. the right worshipping and obeying God, the welfare of the Church-universal (for the parts all contribute to the perfection of the whole); and the glory and pleasing of God are the common ultimate end of all.

§. 29. By all this it appeareth what is necessary to make a particular Church, and to make a man a member of it: And that it is not necessary hereto that the person be a member of a Compound Church, Diocesan, Provincial, Patriarchial, National or Papal (whatever it be to some of these on any other accounts): Nor yet that he make any unnecessary profession, promise or Covenant.