The power of Congregational churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of…

1. A Congregational Church of Christ, quà talis, hath a lawful right in an entireness of Church-Government, within it self, by the gift of Christ, yea, that the Church-power, Natively and Naturally, lies in the Congregation, for such cases are ordinary; and the first Synod, which is looked at as presidential to all Synods, was a concurrence of two Churches, which were two hundred miles distant.

1. A Congregational Church of Christ, quà talis, hath a lawful right in an intireness of Church-Government, within it self, by the gift of Christ, yea, that the Church-power, Natively and Naturally, lyes in the Congregation, for such cases are ordinary; and the first Synod, which is looked at as presidential to all Synods, was a concurrence of two Churches, which were two hundred miles distant.

2. The other Churches, or Classes, or Synods, have no right to take away this power from it. For none may put asunder what God hath joined, as well in this case, as in that noted in Mat. 19.7. God hath joined entireness of Jurisdiction, in re propriâ, to a particular Church, who then shall sunder it from such a Church, to place it in Classes, as Superior Judicatories, where God never put it?

2. The other Churches, or Classes, or Synods, have no right to take away this power from it. For none may put asunder what God hath joyned, as well in this case, as in that noted in Mat. 19.7. God hath joyned intireness of Jurisdiction, in re propriâ, to a particular Church, who then shall sunder it from such a Church, to place it in Classes, as Superior Judicatories, where God never put it?