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The Apostles, as wise Master-builders, did prepare fit Materials for to build the House of God, and to that purpose they having received Commission and Command from the LORD Jesus Christ, Mark 16.15. went out into the WORLD, and Preached the Gospel, beginning at Jerusalem. And when they had made and baptized many Disciples, they planted those Churches that we read of in the holy Scriptures, which were built upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the ⟨p. 44⟩Chief Corner Stone, in whom all the building fitly framed together, was builded together an Habitation of God through the Spirit, Eph. 2.19-22. The Church at Jerusalem was the first of all those Gospel-Churches, Act. 2.47. And the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved. Which Church was at its first Constitution a particular Congregation of sanctified Believers baptized with Water in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, Matth. 28.19. and separated from the Synagogues of the unbelieving Jews, to worship God in Spirit and in Truth, Joh. 4.21, 23, 24. according to the sacred Institutions of Christ and his Apostles, even the Ordinances of God delivered unto his Churches of Saints, 1 Cor. 11.1, 2. And although the number of the Disciples were multiplied from one hundred and twenty, Act. 1.15. to three thousand, Act. 2.41. yea to five thousand, Act. 4 4. & Act. 5.14. And Believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women. So that the Apostles had their own distinct Companies, Societies, or Congregations in Jerusalem [