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

2. To have one National place of Worship, is but •cidental to a National Church; Israel was a National Church in Egypt, yet had no National place of Worship; all the Worship of God, besides that which was typical, might be attended in their Synagogues. The not having a National place of Worship, is no hinderance to their being Governed by a Nati• Authority. There may be a National Government as well wi•, as with a National place of Worship.

2. To have one National place of Worship, is but •cidental to a National Church; Israel was a National Church in Egypt, yet had no National place of Worship; all the Worship of God, besides that which was tipical, might be attended in their Synagogues. The not having a National place of Worship, is no hinderance to their being Governed by a Nati• Authority. There may be a National Government as well wi•, as with a National place of Worship.

This National Church is to be divided into provincial, and those again subdivided into Classical. The Light of Nature teaches us to make such Divisions of great Political Bodies, that Government may be more easily managed. Natural prudence teaches Men in the civil State, to make such Subordination of Courts of Justice, for the benefit of the Common Wealth. This is according to the Counsel which was given to Moses, by his father in •aw, and approved by God, Exod. 18. By the same Rule that the whole is to Rule over the parts, the greater parts are to Rule over the lesser parts, for a greater part, is an whole respecting the lesser parts into which it is divided. A County is a part with respect to a Province, but an whole with respect to the several Congregations therein, and accordingly may Exercise Government over them; yet with Subordination to that Authority that is over the whole. A gradation both in Civil and Ecclesiastical Authority is founded in the very Law of Nature.