An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

This will still appear the more likely, if we consider, that here were believing Jews, as well as Gentiles in this Church of Corinth, as Estius observeth in the Preface to the first Epistle. Therefore when the Apostle speaketh of some, who said they were of Cephas, that relateth to the believing Jews; yet because they were few comparatively to the Gentiles, therefore the Apostle writeth to them, as if all were Gentiles, as Chap. 12. 2. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away to dumb Idols, &c. Hence the same Author saith, That it was one Church collected of all the believers in that place, Licet esse potuerint in eadem civitate distinctae, ut it a dicam parochiae. As for the notion of a learned man, That the Jewish believers, and Gentile believers did make two distinct Churches, and had two distinct Bishops, which he thinketh would salve some seeming contradictions in Ecclesiastical History, that being of an heterogeneous nature to my purpose, I pass it by.

This will still appear the more likely, if we consider, that here were believing Jews, as well as Gentiles in this Church of Corinth, as Estius observeth in the Preface to the first Epistle. Therefore when the Apostle speaketh of some, who said they were of Cephas, that relateth to the believing Jews; yet because they were few comparatively to the Gentiles, therefore the Apostle writeth to them, as if all were Gentiles, as Chap. 12. 2. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away to dumb Idols, &c. Hence the same Author saith, That it was one Church collected of all the believers in that place, Licet esse potuerint in eadem civitate distinctae, ut it a dicam parochiae. As for the notion of a learned man, That the Jewish believers, and Gentile believers did make two distinct Churches, and had two distinct Bishops, which he thinketh would salve some seeming contradictions in Ecclesiastical History, that being of an heterogeneous nature to my purpose, I passe it by.

Thus also the Church of Jerusalem is called a Church, which yet by many probable Arguments seemeth to be more than one. Neither may we think, that Christ hath invested one single Congregation (ordinarily) with all Church power. For that president and example of a Council or Synod, mentioned