The true nature of a Gospel church and its government

Again, to a Catholic visible Church constituted, should be a Catholic visible Pastor or Pastors; for as the Church is, such is the Pastor and Officers; to the Mystical Church Christ is the mystical Head and Pastor; he is called the chief Bishop and Shepherd of our Souls, 1 Pet. 2.25. hence the uncalled are his Sheep, as John 10.16. but to all visible Churches Christ hath appointed a visible Pastor or Pastors; and where is the Pastor of the Catholic visible Church? he is not to be found, unless it please us to take him from Rome. To say that all individual Pastors are Pastors to the Catholic Church, is either to say that they are invested with as much Pastoral Power and Charge in one Church as in another, and then they are indefinite Pastors; and therefore all Pastors have mutual Power in each others Churches; and so John may come into Thomas his Church, and exercise all parts of Jurisdiction there, and Thomas into John's; or a Minister to the Catholic Church hath an universal Catholic Power over the Catholic Church; if so, the Power and Charge which every ordinary Pastor hath, is Apostolic. Or, lastly, he is invested with an Arbitrary Power, at least, as to the taking up a particular Charge where he pleaseth, with a non obstante to the Suffrages of the People; for if he hath an Office whereby he is equally and indisputably related to all Churches, it's at his liberty, by virtue of this Office, to take where he pleaseth.

Again, to a Catholick visible Church constituted, should be a Catholick visible Pastor or Pastors; for as the Church is, such is the Pastor and Officers; to the Mystical Church Christ is the mystical Head and Pastor; he is called the chief Bishop and Shepherd of our Souls, 1 Pet. 2.25. hence the uncalled are his Sheep, as John 10.16. but to all visible Churches Christ hath appointed a visible Pastor or Pastors; and where is the Pastor of the Catholick visible Church? he is not to be found, unless it please us to take him from Rome. To say that all individual Pastors are Pastors to the Catholick Church, is either to say that they are invested with as much Pastoral Power and Charge in one Church as in another, and then they are indefinite Pastors; and therefore all Pastors have mutual Power in each others Churches; and so John may come into Thomas his Church, and exercise all parts of Jurisdiction there, and Thomas into John's; or a Minister to the Catholick Church hath an universal Catholick Power over the Catholick Church; if so, the Power and Charge which every ordinary Pastor hath, is Apostolick. Or, lastly, he is invested with an Arbitrary Power, at least, as to the taking up a particular Charge where he pleaseth, with a non obstante to the Suffrages of the People; for if he hath an Office whereby he is equally and indisputably related to all Churches, it's at his liberty, by virtue of this Office, to take where he pleaseth.