The true nature of a Gospel church and its government

3. THIS Order it self, the only bond of the pretended Union having no Divine Institution, especially as to its extent unto the whole Catholic Church, nor any intimation in the Scripture, and being utterly impossible to be put in execution or actual exercise, no Man can declare what is the Original or Centre of it, whence it is deduced, and wherein it rests.

3. THIS Order it self, the only bond of the pretended Union having no Divine Institution, especially as to its extent unto the whole Catholick Church, nor any intimation in the Scripture, and being utterly impossible to be put in execution or actual exercise, no Man can declare what is the Original or Center of it, whence it is deduced, and wherein it rests.

HAVING removed these pretences out of our way, we may easily discern wherein the Union, and consequently the Communion of •ll particular Churches doth consist, and in the due observation whereof, all that Church-Order which the Lord Christ hath appointed and doth accept, is preserved.

HAVING removed these pretences out of our way, we may easily discern wherein the Vnion, and consequently the Communion of •ll particular Churches doth consist, and in the due observation whereof, all that Church-Order which the Lord Christ hath appointed and doth accept, is preserved.

I SAY then, that the true and only Union of all particular Churches, consists in that which gives Form, Life and Being unto the Church Catholic, with the Addition of what belongs unto them as they are particular. And this is, that they have ⟨p. 242⟩