A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…

In a College, all that have their Names written in the College Book, are Subject to the Statutes and Government of that College, although no members Constituent of the Corporation, even so all that have their Names written in the Church Book, h. e. all that are members of the visible Church, are (i. e. ought to be) subject to the Laws of Christs Kingdom, and submit themselves to his Government exercised by those Spiritual Corporations which Christ hath endowed with a Charter, albeit they are not members Constituent thereof, or those to whom the power of the Keys doth belong. Neither let it be objected here, that we must not fashion the Church according to the world. True, but if men in the world do in some things order matters as Christ hath appointed in his Church, we need not marvel at it; for Christ being the wisdom of God hath ordered matters in his Church according to the Rules of Infinite wisdom, he hath also by the same Spirit of wisdom taught men to order Civil Constitutions aright. If therefore in some things, the wisdom of our Ancestors in ordering of their Civil Governments, doth imitate that of Christs in framing his Church, we may from the one Illustrate the other. See more in the above praised Preface, p. 7. 9.

In a Colledge, all that have their Names written in the Colledge Book, are Subject to the Statutes and Government of that Colledge, although no members Constituent of the Corporation, even so all that have their Names written in the Church Book, h. e. all that are members of the visible Church, are (i. e. ought to be) subject to the Laws of Christs Kingdome, and submit themselves to his Government exercised by those Spiritual Corporations which Christ hath endowed with a Charter, albeit they are not members Constituent thereof, or those to whom the power of the Keys doth belong. Neither let it be objected here, that we must not fashion the Church according to the world. True, but if men in the world do in some things order matters as Christ hath appointed in his Church, we need not marvel at it; for Christ being the wisdome of God hath ordered matters in his Church according to the Rules of Infinite wisdome, he hath also by the same Spirit of wisdome taught men to order Civil Constitutions aright. If therefore in some things, the wisdome of our Ancestors in ordering of their Civil Governments, doth imitate that of Christs in framing his Church, we may from the one Illustrate the other. See more in the above praised Preface, p. 7. 9.