An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of…

Answ. If by the receiving of Christ, they mean the receiving of Christ on his throne, or the receiving of him in his ordinance of Church government, then we deny their Assumption, for every company of faithful people is not a Church politically, as we have showed already. Indeed every company of faithful people who have received Christ in this manner, hath right and title to ⟨p. 201⟩enjoy him in all his political ordinances, yet not independently, but by a certain order and subordination. But if by the receiving of Christ, they mean receiving of him to salvation, or receiving of him by his Word and Spirit, we grant, that not only every company of faithful people, but every particular Christian hath right and title to enjoy him in the mystical ordinances of the Word, Prayer, &c. as often as the same can be had; yea further, hath right and title to the fruit and benefit of Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, the exercise whereof is committed by Christ to the officers of the Church, Intuitu Ecclesiae tanquam finis. But that every company of faithful people, who have received Christ to salvation, hath right and title to enjoy him in his political ordinances, by their own exercising of all Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and that independently, this is more then either hath been, or can be proved.

Answ. If by the receiving of Christ, they meane the receiving of Christ on his throne, or the receiving of him in his ordinance of Church government, then wee deny their Assumption, for every company of faithfull people is not a Church politically, as wee have shewed already. Indeed every company of faithfull people who have received Christ in this manner, hath right and title to ⟨p. 201⟩enjoy him in all his politicall ordinances, yet not independently, but by a certaine order and subordination. But if by the receiving of Christ, they meane receiving of him to salvation, or receiving of him by his Word and Spirit, wee grant, that not onely every company of faithfull people, but every particular Christian hath right and title to enjoy him in the mystical ordinances of the Word, Prayer, &c. as often as the same can be had; yea further, hath right and title to the fruit and benefit of Ecclesiasticall jurisdicton, the exercise whereof is committed by Christ to the officers of the Church, Intuitu Ecclesiae tanquam finis. But that every company of faithfull people, who have received Christ to salvation, hath right and title to enjoy him in his politicall ordinances, by their own exercising of all Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction, and that independently, this is more then either hath been, or can be proved.