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

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 ⟨p. 94⟩institution given us in the Scripture: For,

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 priviledge of his worship, Eph. 2.15, 16, 17, 18. the national Church of the Jewes 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 ⟨p. 94⟩institution given us in the Scripture: For,