The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…

For all the persons, all the Assemblies and Associations in the world, who acknowledge and worship one true God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Lord Jesus, walking by one and the same rule of Faith and Love in the Gospel, do all make up but one Catholic Church.

For all the persons, all the Assemblies and Associations in the world, who acknowledge and worship one true God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Lord Jesus, walking by one and the same rule of Faith and Love in the Gospel, do all make up but one Catholick Church.

And the former Resemblances and Similitudes whereby it is expressed, lead ⟨p. 31⟩us to the consideration of a threefold Unity in the Church. 1. An Unity by way of Disposition and Order, as in an Army or Building. 2. An Unity by way of Composition, or integral Completion, as between the parts of the body unto the perfection of the whole. 3. An Unity by way of Constitution, or Essential Concurrence of Soul and Body unto one man or of the Subject, and vital principles whereby it is animated.

There is then in the Church 1. An Unity of Order, as the Apostle rejoiced when he beheld the^w Order of the Church at Coloss. And this consisteth, 1. In Variety of Offices, and in the due and regular Subordination of those one unto another, and of the body unto them all, as the^x Apostle telleth us, that God hath set in the Church first Apostles, secondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers, &c. And that Christ when he ascended up on high, gave some Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Evangelists, and some Pastors, and Teachers,