Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances and appointments the best means to preserve…

3. 'Tis not any Magisterial power, Diotrephes-like; either §3to do what they will, Mat. 23. 8. and their wills to be their law; No, Matth. 28. 20, Teach, all that I command ⟨p. 56⟩you: If they do sin, their persons are under the censure of the Church, in case of manifest offence and scandal by the mouths of two or three witnesses who being Members of the whole Church, and under it, and being sinful Members; may, if the case need it, be proceeded against by the whole. Neither have they any power to act any public Ordinance which concerns the whole Church, and where 'tis bound by Christ to judge, without the privity and consent of the Church, as to elect Officers, admit Members, cast out offenders in the Vestry without the knowledge of the Church, one of the blains of the reformed Churches, which the Apostles with their extraordinary power never did themselves, much le•e should these. 1 Cor. 5.

3. 'Tis not any Magisterial power, Diotrephes-like; either §3to do what they will, Mat. 23. 8. and their wills to be their law; No, Matth. 28. 20, Teach, all that I command ⟨p. 56⟩you: If they do sin, their persons are under the censure of the Church, in case of manifest offence and scandall by the mouthes of two or three witnesses who being Members of the whole Church, and under it, and being sinfull Members; may, if the case need it, be proceeded against by the whole. Neither have they any power to act any publick Ordinance which concerns the whole Church, and where 'tis bound by Christ to judge, without the privity and consent of the Church, as to elect Officers, admit Members, cast out offenders in the Vestry without the knowledge of the Church, one of the blaines of the reformed Churches, which the Apostles with their extraordinary power never did themselves, much lee should these.