A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of…

Neither would God allow any stranger, any one not of the Church so instituted by him, to celebrate any part of his instituted worship, until he was solemnly admitted into that Church as a member thereof. Exod. 12.47▪ 48. All the congregation of Israel shall keep it, and when a stranger shall sojourn with thee and will keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his Males be circumcised and ⟨p. 93⟩then let him come near and keep it, and he shall be as one that is born in the Land for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

Neither would God allow any stranger, any one not of the Church so instituted by him, to celebrate any part of his instituted worship, untill he was solemnly admitted into that Church as a member thereof. Exod. 12.47▪ 48. All the congregation of Israel shall keep it, and when a stranger shall sojourn with thee and will keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his Males be circumcised and ⟨p. 93⟩then let him come near and keep it, and he shall be as one that is born in the Land for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

To the same end and purpose, when the knowledge of God was to be diffused all the World over by the preaching of the Gospel, and Believers of all nations under Heaven were to be admitted unto the privilege of his worship, Eph. 2.15, 16, 17, 18. the national Church of the Jews with all the Ordinances of it being removed and taken away, the Lord Christ hath appointed particular Churches, or united Assemblies of Believers▪ amongst and by whom he will have all his holy Ordinances of worship celebrated. And this institution of his, at the First preaching of the Gospel, was invariably and inviolably observed by all that took on them to be his Disciples, without any one instance of questioning it to the contrary in the whole World, or of the celebration of any Ordinances of his worship amongst any Persons, but only in such societies or particular Churches. And there is sufficient evidence and warranty of this