Five disputations of church-government and worship

§. 19. 3. And that such as thus convert a people, or Congregate them, may (according to the fore-mentioned Rules) Ordain them Pastors, by the peoples suffrages or Consent, is also sufficiently proved in that foregoing disputation: and therefore may be here past by.

§. 20. 4. And that such may take care of all the Churches within their reach, so far as to do them what good they can, is plain in the L•w of Nature that requireth it; and in the general commands of the Gospel seconding the Law of Nature; while we have time we must do good to all men; Especially to the household of faith. And its plain in the Nature of the Catholic Church and of its members, and in the nature of the work of Grace upon the soul. We are taught of God to love one another: and the End of the Catholic Society is, (as of all Societies) the common good, and the Glory of God: and the Nature of true members is to have the same care one for another, that so there may be no schism in the body, and that they all suffer and rejoice with one another, in their hurts, and in their welfare, 1 Cor. 12.25, 26. It is therefore lawful for Pastors to improve their talents upon these common grounds.

§. 20. 4. And that such may take care of all the Churches within their reach, so far as to do them what good they can, is plain in the L•w of Nature that requireth it; and in the general commands of the Gospel seconding the Law of Nature; while we have time we must do good to all men; Especially to the houshold of faith. And its plain in the Nature of the Catholick Church and of its members, and in the nature of the work of Grace upon the soul. We are taught of God to love one another: and the End of the Catholick Society is, (as of all Societies) the common good, and the Glory of God: and the Nature of true members is to have the same care one for another, that so there may be no schism in the body, and that they all suffer and rejoice with one another, in their hurts, and in their welfare,