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Answ. No. Severall Congregations, but one Church; the Church of Jerusalem, even as it is in a great City: there may be severall Societies and companies, according to severall trades and mysteries; and those so many petty corporations, who may have their severall Halls, and their severall meetings, and yet all making up but one Incorporation, to which they are all subordinate because all under one and the same Government and Governours: even thus may it be in the Church, (and in the Primitive state of it, I conceive so it was.) In one City, and the adjacent territories there may be many Congregations, and yet but one Church, inasmuch as they may be united by the same Lawes, have communion in the same Ordinances, and be linked together under the same spirituall Guides and Officers. Surely in all probability thus it was, at least in some of the Proto-Primitive Churches. And why not now? |
Answer No. Several Congregations, but one Church; the Church of Jerusalem, even as it is in a great city: there may be several Societies and companies, according to several trades and Mysteres; and those so many Petty corporations, who may have their several Halls, and their several meetings, and yet all making up but one Incorporation, to which they Are all subordinate Because all under one and the same Government and Governors: even thus may it be in the Church, (and in the Primitive state of it, I conceive so it was.) In one city, and the adjacent territories there may be many Congregations, and yet but one Church, inasmuch as they may be united by the same Laws, have communion in the same Ordinances, and be linked together under the same spiritual Guides and Officers. Surely in all probability thus it was, At least in Some of the Proto-Primitive Churches. And why not now? |
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