Chapter 7
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CHAP. VII.
Our Doctrine about the Church, Church Government, worship and Communion.
WE know nothing else that suspicions do call us more to give the world an account of our Doctrine of, than the nature, Government and Communion of the Church and the manner of Gods worship in it: which yet having some of us already published more largely, and also in 1660. when allowed by his Majesty, given in our desires thereabout (in offering Arch-Bishop Ushers from of Primitive Government and a specimen of a Reformed Liturgy) we suppose no more than these following Propositions will be needful to be here added.
WE know nothing else that suspicions do call us more to give the world an account of our Doctrine of, than the nature, Government and Communion of the Church and the manner of Gods worship in it: which yet having some of us already published more largely, and also in 1660. when allowed by his Majesty, given in our desires thereabout (in offering Arch-Bishop Vshers from of Primitive Government and a specimen of a Reformed Liturgy) we suppose no more than these following Propositions will be needful to be here added.
1. The CHURCH is a word of many significations, of which the principal is The UNIVERSALITY OF CHRISTIANS HEADED BY CHRIST.
2. In a narrower sense it signifieth these Christians as Christs Body or Kingdom contradistinct from Christ the Head; As the word [Kingdom] sometimes includeth the King, and sometimes signifieth the people as contradistinct from him.