The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the…

The ^bApology addeth, Hebr. 10. The Hebrews are commanded not to forsake the assembly of themselves together, as the manner of some is; Ergo, they convened by mutual consent, and so by covenant.

The ^bApology addeth, Hebr. 10. The Hebrews are commanded not to forsake the assembly of themselves together, as the manner of some is; Ergo, they convened by mutuall consent, and so by covenant.

1. bApology, ch. 11.

Answ. Do not Infidels and Indians, as you teach ^ccome to your Assemblies to hear the Word, and partake of the prayers and praises of the Church? But ye will not say, They are to come to those Assemblies by a Church-covenant. Secondly, what though they intended Assemblies by consent, and tacit covenant? it will not follow therefore by your Covenant, which is the formal cause of a visible Church, and this place proveth nothing, 2 Cor. 8. 5. The Churches of Macedonia first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us, therefore they were In-churched, by way of covenant to our ministry, so ^athe discourse; but these Churches gave themselves to God (in that duty of charity) and then to us, the exhorters to that charity, and the conveyers ⟨p. 121⟩thereof to Jerusalem; then the Church of Corinth was married on God, on Paul, yea and on the Churches of Jerusalem, for the Author maketh this marriage-love, and so Jerusalem is erected a mother Church, and Corinth subjected unto her; for these who give Alms, as becometh saints, are said to give their heart to God, and to the poor, as