The doctrine of instituted churches explained and proved from the word of God

Answ. The reason of that is, not that National Churches are not according to the mind of God, in the Days of the New Testament, but because there was no Nation that did receive the Christian faith. Tho there were many Congregations gathered among the Gentiles, yet there were very few of them, comparatively, that did entertain the Gospel; the bulk of all the Gentile Nations, lay in their Heathenism, during all that time that we have the History of in the Scriptures.

Answ. The reason of that is, not that National Churches are not according to the mind of God, in the Days of the New Testament, but because there was no Nation that did receive the Christian faith. Tho there were many Congregations gathered among the Gentiles, yet there were very few of them, comparitively, that did entertain the Gospel; the bulk of all the Gentile Nations, lay in their Heathenism, during all that time that we have the History of in the Scriptures.

Obj. 2. God hath not appointed in the New Testament any National Officers, as the High Priest in Israel, nor any National place of Worship as Jerusalem, therefore there is no National Church.

Obj. 2. God hath not appointed in the New Testament any National Officers, as the High Priest in Israel, nor any National place of VVorship as Jerusalem, therefore there is no National Church.

Answ. 1. To have one National Officer over the •le, is not essential to the being of a National Church; Israel was a National Church, when they had no such National Officers, while the first Born did Exercise the Office of the Priests, before the separation of the Levites to that work. There be several sorts of civil Government, none of which are essential to a Republic. The being of a National Church doth not necessitate this or that form of Government: