The true nature of a Gospel church and its government

2. THIS Communion in Faith respects the Church it self as its material Object. For it is required hereunto, that we believe that the Lord Christ hath had in all Ages, and especially hath in that wherein we live, a Church on the Earth, confined ⟨p. 246⟩unto no Places nor Parties of Men, no Empires nor Dominions, or capable of any confinement; as also that this Church is Redeemed, Called, Sanctified by him; that it is his Kingdom, his Interest, his concernment in the World; that thereunto, and all the Members of it, all the Promises of God do belong and are confined; that this Church he will save, preserve and deliver from all oppositions, so as that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it; and after Death will raise it up and glorify it at the last day. This is the Faith of the Catholic Church concerning it self; which is an Ancient fundamental Article of our Religion. And if any one deny that there is such a Church called out of the World, separated from it, unto which alone, and all the Members of it, all the Promises of God do appertain, in contradistinction unto all others, or confines it unto a Party, unto whom these things are not appropriate, he cuts himself off from the Communion of the Church of Christ.

2. THIS Communion in Faith respects the Church it self as its material Object. For it is required hereunto, that we believe that the Lord Christ hath had in all Ages, and especially hath in that wherein we live, a Church on the Earth, confined ⟨p. 246⟩unto no Places nor Parties of Men, no Empires nor Dominions, or capable of any confinement; as also that this Church is Redeemed, Called, Sanctified by him; that it is his Kingdom, his Interest, his concernment in the World; that thereunto, and all the Members of it, all the Promises of God do belong and are confined; that this Church he will save, preserve and deliver from all oppositions, so as that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it; and after Death will raise it up and glorify it at the last day. This is the Faith of the Catholick Church concerning it self; which is an Ancient fundamental Article of our Religion. And if any one deny that there is such a Church called out of the World, separated from it, unto which alone, and all the Members of it, all the Promises of God do appertain, in contradistinction unto all others, or confines it unto a Party, unto whom these things are not appropriate, he cuts himself off from the Communion of the Church of Christ.