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

The Church excluding the Officers is (saith Robinson) called the Church, as the Elders of the Church, and Timothy was to behave himself well in the Church of God. This is answered; they are first a mystical Church, not a governing Church. Secondly, a man is called a man excluding his soul, (if your soul were in my souls stead.) Therefore a man is a thing living, and a reasonable man without his soul: what vanity is here! Fifthly, if the Church-Covenant be the essential form of the Church, it is as accider tall to the well being of believers, as Officers are; for they are the light of the world, the salt of the earth, which is more necessary then a Church-Covenant.

The Church excluding the Officers is (saith Robinson) called the Church, as the Elders of the Church, and Timothy was to behave himselfe well in the Church of God. This is answered; they are first a mysticall Church, not a governing Church. Secondly, a man is called a man excluding his soule, (if your soule were in my soules stead.) Therefore a man is a thing living, and a reasonable man without his soule: what vanity is here! Fifthly, if the Church-Covenant be the essentiall forme of the Church, it is as accider tall to the well being of beleevers, as Officers are; for they are the light of the world, the salt of the earth, which is more necessary then a Church-Covenant.

And Robinson saith ^afurther, Two or three have received Christ, and his power and right to all the means of grace, and Christ and his power are not divided; also the wife hath immediate right to her husbands person and goods for her use.

And Robinson saith ^afurther, Two or three have received Christ, and his power and right to all the meanes of grace, and Christ and his power are not divided; also the wife hath immediate right to her husbands person and goods for her use.

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