Independency examined, vnmasked, refuted, by twelve new particular interrogatories: detecting both the manifold absurdities, inconveniences that must necessarily attend it, to the great disturbance of church, state, the diminution, subversion of the lawfull undoubted power of all christian magistrates, parliaments, synods: and shaking the chiefe pillars, wherwith its patrons would support it. / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier.
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Independency examined, vnmasked, refuted, by twelve new particular interrogatories: detecting both the manifold absurdities, inconveniences that must necessarily attend it, to the great disturbance of church, state, the diminution, subversion of the lawfull undoubted power of all christian magistrates, parliaments, synods: and shaking the chiefe pillars, wherwith its patrons would support it. / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier.
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Independency
EXAMINED
,
Vnmasked
,
Refuted
,
By
twelve
new
particular
Interrogatories
:
detecting
both
the
manifold
Absurdities
,
Inconveniences
that
must
necessarily
attend
it
,
to
the
great
▪
disturbance
of
Church
,
State
,
the
diminution
,
subversion
of
the
lawfull
undoubted
power
of
all
Christian
Magistrates
,
Parliaments
,
Synods
:
and
shaking
the
chiefe
Pillars
,
wherewith
its
Patrons
would
support
it
.
By
William
Prynne
of
Lincolnes
Inne
,
Esquier
.
Rom.
12.
16.
Be
of
the
same
minde
one
towards
another
:
Minde
not
high
things
,
but
be
contented
with
meane
things
:
Be
not
wise
in
your
owne
conceits
.
1
Pet.
5.
5.
Likewise
ye
Younger
,
submit
your selves
unto
the
Elder
;
yea
all
of
you
be
subject
one
to
another
,
and
be
cloathed
with
humility
:
for
God
resisteth
the
proud
,
and
giveth
grace
to
the
humble
.
Ephes.
4.
14
,
15.
Henceforth
be
no
more
children
,
tossed
to
and
fro
,
and
carried
about
with
every
winde
of
Doctrine
,
by
the
slight
of
men
,
and
cunning
craftinesse
,
whereby
they
lye
in
wait
to
deceive
:
But
speaking
the
truth
in
love
,
grow
up
into
him
in
all
things
,
which
is
the
head
,
even
Christ
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
F.
L.
for
Michael
Sparke
Senior
,
and
are
to
bee
sold
at
the
Blew-Bible
in
Green-Arbour
.
1644.
Independency
examined
,
unmasked
,
refuted
,
by
Twelve
new
particular
Interrogatories
.
COurteous
Reader
,
it
being
expected
by
some
,
that
I
should
(
upon
second
thoughts
)
render
)
a
more
particular
account
of
my
disapprobation
of
the
Independent
Platforme
,
then
I
have
lately
done
in
my
Twelve
considerable
serious
Questions
touching
Church-government
,
wherein
I
propounded
my
Reasons
against
the
same
,
but
in
a
generall
manner
:
I
shall
for
thy
further
satisfaction
,
and
our
Churches
peace
(
most
necessary
and
desirable
in
these
dangerous
times
)
propose
by
way
of
Interrogation
,
my
more
particular
Exceptions
,
against
this
New
form
of
government
,
with
all
ingenuity
and
freedome
,
without
reflection
upon
any
particular
persons
,
or
just
disgust
(
unlesse
*
truth
displease
)
to
those
who
are
contrary-minded
:
My
only
aim
being
to
convince
,
reconcile
,
not
irritate
or
disaffect
them
.
The
reason
why
I
thus
write
by
way
of
Question
,
not
Descision
,
is
,
because
(
for
ought
I
finde
)
the
Independents
have
not
yet
dogmatically
,
in
direct
termes
▪
discovered
to
the
world
the
ful
truth
of
what
they
assert
,
but
politikely
conceale
the
principall
grounds
,
and
more
deformed
parts
of
their
Church-platforme
,
till
a
further
opportunity
,
for
feare
their
very
discovery
at
the
first
should
cause
their
new
building
to
miscarry
.
Whereupon
I
have
rather
chosen
to
pump
out
their
determinations
by
the
ensuing
Questions
to
avoid
mistakes
then
to
refute
them
upon
ba●e
conjectures
;
following
the
Apostles
seasonable
advise
,
1
Thes.
5.
21.
Prove
all
things
,
hold
fast
that
which
is
good
.
1.
Whether
the
Independent
former
of
Church-government
,
now
so
much
contended
for
as
the
a
only
Church-government
of
divine
institution
,
which
all
(
say
they
)
are
bound
to
submit
unto
,
be
anywhere
to
be
found
in
the
Old
or
New
Testament
?
What
Texts
or
Presidents
(
if
so
essentiall
and
necessary
as
it
pretended
)
doe
either
directly
prescribe
or
delineate
it
unto
us
?
Vnder
what
dark
cloud
or
vaile
hath
it
layn
totally
obscured
,
for
hundreds
yea
thousands
of
years
that
it
never
appeared
in
any
Church
Nation
,
Republike
in
the
world
from
Adams
dayes
till
ours
?
And
whether
it
be
yet
so
clearly
revealed
to
those
who
pretend
best
knowledge
of
it
,
as
to
be
positively
resolved
on
amongst
them
what
it
is
,
or
what
the
benefits
or
mischiefes
of
it
may
prove
to
be
?
If
not
,
I
shall
conclude
of
this
New-government
,
as
our
Saviour
doth
in
his
parabolicall
speech
concerning
New-wine
,
b
No
man
having
drunke
old
Wine
streightway
desireth
new
for
he
saith
,
THE
OLD
IS
BETTER
:
Old
Presbytery
,
old
unlordly
Episcopacy
,
are
(
no
doubt
)
far
better
for
us
then
New
Independency
.
2.
Whether
some
Independents
do
not
extraordinarily
eclipse
,
impeach
,
if
not
absolutely
deny
and
subvert
the
lawfull
power
of
Civill
Magistrates
,
all
former
Parliaments
▪
and
the
present
too
,
in
all
matters
of
Church-goverment
and
Potlesiasticall
affaires
,
contrary
to
their
solemne
Covenant
and
Protestations
,
●o
defend
the
ancient
Priviledges
&
authority
of
Parliament
,
and
even
quite
blow
●p
all
their
ecclesiastick
authority
(
by
a
new
kinde
of
Gun-powder
)
at
one
breath
:
yea
lay
most
foul
,
scandalous
,
uncharitable
censures
upon
the
honourable
Members
of
this
Parliament
,
who
deserve
far
better
language
from
them
▪
Witness
this
most
observable
dangerous
passage
,
lately
dropped
from
their
pens
,
in
A
Reply
of
two
of
the
brethren
to
A.
S.
(
newly
printed
)
pag.
81
,
82.
Thirdly
,
if
the
Law
of
the
State
be
the
first
and
most
considerable
band
or
tye
upon
men
,
to
submit
unto
the
power
of
your
combined
Eldership
,
(
as
you
seeme
here
to
imply
,
in
saying
,
that
all
men
and
all
Churches
thereof
are
bound
by
Law
,
&c.
)
then
you
must
acknowledge
,
that
the
root
and
base
of
your
Government
is
*
Potestas
secularis
,
secular
authority
:
and
then
how
is
it
Ecclesiastick
or
Spirituall
?
A
man
may
as
well
bring
a
cleane
thing
out
of
an
uncleane
(
in
Jobs
expression
)
as
make
a
spirituall
extraction
out
of
a
secular
root
.
Secondly
,
it
will
rest
upon
you
to
prove
,
that
the
Civill
State
hath
a
power
to
forme
and
fashion
the
government
of
the
Churches
of
Christ
.
Yea
,
thirdly
and
lastly
,
it
will
be
demonstratively
proved
against
you
,
that
you
resolve
the
government
of
the
Churches
of
Christ
(
in
the
last
resolution
of
it
)
into
the
humours
,
wills
,
and
pleasures
of
the
world
,
yea
of
the
vilest
and
most
unworthy
of
men
.
Brethren
,
bona
verba
quaeso
:
Is
this
your
printed
,
publike
,
avowed
language
of
Parliaments
and
the
Members
of
it
,
even
to
the
very
face
of
the
most
religious
,
best-deserving
Parliament
that
ever
sate
,
which
hath
been
most
indulgent
to
you
hitherto
?
Is
this
your
so
much
boasted
c
preaching
,
writing
,
fighting
for
the
priviledges
and
rights
of
Parliaments
,
which
ever
since
the
first
planting
of
Religion
among
us
to
this
present
,
haue
framed
and
fashioned
the
government
of
our
Churches
in
all
ages
,
as
I
can
demonstratively
manifest
by
good
Antiquities
?
Certainly
this
language
of
yours
(
with
sundry
other
like
passages
in
this
your
much-applauded
d
Reply
)
cause
intelligent
men
to
suspect
,
that
the
designe
of
some
of
your
party
is
,
to
hugge
embrace
the
Parliament
,
in
shew
,
just
as
the
Yvie
doth
the
Tree
,
thereby
to
advance
your selves
(
the
onely
absolute
Ecclesiasticall
Dictators
,
law-givers
)
and
your
independent
Churches
by
degrees
above
the
Parliament
,
and
then
to
over-top
,
suppresse
its
power
in
the
end
;
or
else
to
ruine
it
&
us
for
the
present
,
by
endeavouring
to
raise
schismes
among
us
,
both
in
Parliament
,
City
,
Country
,
and
our
Armies
,
because
they
now
discerne
the
major
part
of
both
Houses
and
the
Synod
inclined
against
your
Independent
novelties
.
If
this
be
the
accursed
project
of
any
of
you
,
(
for
I
dare
not
harbour
so
ill
a
thought
of
the
greatest
part
)
the
Lord
will
both
discover
and
avenge
it
to
their
infamy
,
in
due
season
:
In
the
meane
time
,
to
answere
the
substance
of
this
most
derogatory
scandalous
passage
against
Parliaments
;
I
sadly
referre
it
to
all
rationall
mens
judgments
in
the
world
,
Whether
a
Parliament
of
the
most
eminent
,
religious
,
learned
,
grave
,
zealous
wisest
Peeres
and
Commons
of
this
Realme
(
the
representative
body
and
grand
Councell
of
the
Kingdom
)
assisted
with
the
advice
judgment
of
an
Assembly
of
the
most
orthodoxe
pious
consciencious
▪
learned
Ministers
in
our
Church
,
specially
selected
for
this
purpose
,
&
of
the
chiefest
of
your
Independent
party
▪
be
not
more
fit
to
form
,
&
fashion
the
government
of
the
Churches
of
Christ
,
and
better
able
to
resolve
,
determine
upon
long
and
serious
debate
,
what
Church-government
is
most
agreeable
to
the
Word
of
God
,
and
fittest
for
every
particular
Parish-church
throughout
this
Island
,
for
the
advancement
of
Gods
glory
,
the
peoples
salvation
,
the
generall
peace
and
tranquillity
of
Church
and
State
then
any
one
or
two
Independent
Ministers
,
with
five
or
sixe
of
their
illiterate
,
impolitick
,
and
perchance
inconsiderate
Members
(
to
use
no
harsher
epithite
)
assembled
in
a
private
Conventicle
,
can
doe
in
two
or
three
houres
space
?
And
whether
it
bee
meeter
that
these
should
prescribe
a
church-government
,
discipline
to
themselvs
the
Parliament
,
Synod
,
and
whole
Kingdome
to
boot
;
or
the
Parliament
and
Assembly
to
them
,
who
deeme
themselves
e
wiser
,
holier
in
their
owne
vaine
conceits
,
then
a
thousand
Parliaments
,
Synods
put
together
?
I
doubt
not
they
wil
all
confesse
,
that
in
their
Congregationall
debates
about
any
point
of
order
,
discipline
government
or
doctrine
,
in
any
of
their
Independent
Churches
,
the
f
major
voice
or
party
ought
to
over-rule
and
binde
the
lesse
;
And
if
so
,
let
them
yeeld
me
a
solid
reason
,
when
they
are
able
,
why
the
Ecclesiasticall
constitutions
,
Resolutions
,
Orders
,
Edicts
of
the
greatest
part
of
an
whole
Nationall
Parliament
,
Synod
,
Kingdome
,
should
not
much
more
binde
both
them
and
all
their
Independent
Churches
as
well
as
others
,
as
they
have
ever
hitherto
done
?
And
why
a
combined
Presbytery
,
of
many
,
learned
Ministers
,
Lawyers
,
Gentlemen
of
best
judgment
,
quality
,
should
not
be
fitter
to
decide
all
Church-controversies
and
affaires
of
moment
within
their
prefixed
limits
,
by
generall
Laws
and
Canons
setled
in
Parliament
by
common
consent
,
then
any
Independent
or
popular
Tribunall
of
lesser
judgement
and
experience
,
by
their
owne
arbitrary
privat
edicts
?
Else
they
must
deny
what
the
holy
Ghost
informs
us
,
g
That
two
are
better
then
one
;
h
that
in
the
multitude
of
Counsellours
there
is
safety
:
or
that
the
pious
i
Kings
in
the
old
Testament
,
or
a
Nationall
Councell
,
or
Parliament
of
their
Princes
,
Nobles
,
Elders
,
Captaines
,
and
people
of
best
quality
,
had
any
lawfull
power
to
reforme
or
settle
all
weighty
Ecclesiasticall
Church-affaires
;
as
they
ever
did
by
Gods
owne
command
and
approbation
.
3.
Whether
it
be
not
the
Independents
professed
Tenet
,
if
truely
and
positively
laid
downe
,
that
*
every
Minister
hath
a
divine
right
and
liberty
,
to
gather
to
himselfe
an
Independent
Church
,
not
of
Pagans
,
Infidels
converted
by
himselfe
alone
,
but
of
all
the
eminentest
Christians
formerly
converted
,
and
regenerated
by
the
Ministry
of
others
(
especially
if
rich
or
potent
persons
,
able
to
give
them
large
contributions
and
support
)
who
shall
voluntarily
submit
themselves
to
his
Ministry
,
and
such
a
Church-government
as
he
shall
dictate
to
them
:
though
by
our
established
lawes
and
customes
,
(
which
our
solemne
Vow
and
Covenant
obligeth
us
to
maintaine
)
they
be
Parishioners
to
twenty
other
godly
Ministers
,
by
whose
Ministry
they
were
first
regenerated
and
built
up
in
grace
?
That
every
Christian
hath
a
free
liberty
,
by
the
Law
of
God
,
to
unite
himselfe
to
what
Independent
Congregation
hee
pleaseth
;
the
husband
to
one
Congregation
,
the
wife
to
another
,
the
children
to
a
third
,
the
servants
to
a
fourth
;
nay
,
every
distinct
person
in
a
family
to
a
severall
Church
,
(
and
that
not
onely
without
,
but
against
the
consents
of
their
owne
Magistrates
,
Ministers
,
Husbands
,
Parents
,
Masters
,
who
have
no
jurisdiction
(
as
some
say
)
over
their
consciences
herein
;
so
as
one
great
family
shall
be
divided
into
members
of
twenty
or
thirty
severall
Independent
Churches
,
if
they
please
,
and
those
perchance
different
one
from
another
in
their
government
,
opinions
,
discipline
,
ceremonies
?
That
those
whose
consciences
or
judgments
will
not
permit
them
to
joine
with
their
Independent
Churches
,
(
which
they
*
professe
to
be
canonicall
(
though
guided
by
no
canons
)
and
of
divine
assertion
,
denying
all
other
Church-government
to
be
so
)
must
be
wholly
excluded
(
as
Heathens
and
Reprobates
)
from
being
members
of
any
Church
;
or
rather
(
by
the
self-same
Christian
liberty
as
Independents
plead
for
)
they
may
unite
themselves
into
Presbyteriall
or
Hierarchicall
Churches
,
or
what
other
forme
they
please
to
elect
:
and
so
we
shall
have
an
Independent
Church-government
in
one
part
of
a
Family
,
Parish
,
Town
,
County
,
Kingdom
;
a
Presbyteriall
in
another
;
an
Episcopall
in
a
third
:
and
by
this
means
if
the
husband
bee
a
great
stickler
for
Episcopacy
,
and
member
of
a
Prelaticall
Church
;
the
wise
a
fierce
zealot
for
Independency
,
and
a
member
of
such
a
congregation
;
the
children
or
servants
stout
champions
for
Presbytery
,
and
members
of
such
assemblies
,
what
confusion
distraction
,
implacable
contestations
,
*
schismes
,
tumults
this
Licentiousnesse
(
for
I
cannot
stile
it
Freedome
of
conscience
)
would
soone
inevitably
engender
in
all
Families
,
Villages
,
Cities
,
Counties
,
Kingdomes
,
to
their
utter
ruine
and
desolation
,
the
meanest
capacity
may
with
ease
divine
;
without
the
help
of
an
Oracle
.
However
,
it
would
unavoidably
subvert
all
ancient
bounds
of
Parishes
,
all
setled
maintenance
for
the
Ministry
by
tithes
or
otherwise
and
put
all
Ministers
into
the
condition
of
Friars
mendicants
,
to
live
(
as
Independents
do
)
upon
the
Almes
or
voluntary
contributions
of
their
severall
congregations
,
to
whose
humours
,
errours
,
opinions
,
they
must
either
readily
conforme
,
or
else
starve
for
want
of
subsistence
,
in
case
of
their
displeasure
,
being
subject
to
casheering
upon
every
small
dislike
.
4.
Whether
Independents
must
not
necessarily
grant
from
their
owne
principles
,
that
as
every
Minister
hath
free
liberty
to
congregate
what
Church
hee
pleaseth
,
of
men
suitable
to
his
own
opinions
,
practise
;
so
also
particular
persons
have
a
like
liberty
to
unite
themselves
together
into
a
Church
,
to
elect
what
Minister
they
thinke
best
,
and
prescribe
to
themselves
what
government
they
shall
conceive
to
be
most
sutable
to
the
Scriptures
?
And
if
so
,
then
every
man
will
*
heap
to
himselfe
Teachers
,
and
erect
Churches
after
his
own
lusts
:
meer
Papists
▪
and
Popishly
affected
persons
,
will
set
up
Popish
Churches
and
Priests
;
Arminians
,
Arminian
Churches
and
Preachers
;
Anabaptists
,
Anabaptisticall
Ministers
and
Assemblies
;
Arrians
,
Anti-Trinitarians
,
such
conventicles
and
Pastors
;
Libertines
,
a
licentious
Church
and
Ministry
;
yea
,
every
Heretick
,
Sectary
,
or
guidy-pated
Enthusiast
,
upon
pretext
of
new
Revelations
and
discoveries
of
concealed
Evangelicall
truths
,
(
though
when
exactly
scanned
they
may
oft
times
prove
old
errors
or
meer
diabolicall
delusions
)
will
erect
new
Independent
Churches
of
their
own
(
and
that
for
succession
and
perpetuity
to
the
perverting
of
infinit
soules
)
,
uncontroulable
,
unsuppressible
by
any
Ecclesiasticall
or
Civill
authority
:
And
thus
in
few
moneths
,
or
yeares
space
at
least
,
through
Satans
instigations
,
our
owne
depraved
judgments
,
(
a
verse
to
unity
,
piety
,
purity
,
but
†
prone
to
Errour
,
Heresie
,
Schismes
,
lyes
yea
lying
phantasies
)
and
through
defect
of
a
severe
coercive
power
,
in
Ecclesiasticall
Synods-Parliaments
,
temporall
Magistrates
,
(
who
as
*
some
new
Independent
Lights
informe
us
,
have
no
coercive
power
to
suppresse
these
springing
heresies
,
but
onely
by
a
non-communion
with
or
refuting
them
by
the
word
to
which
they
will
obstinatly
*
refuse
to
hearken
,
as
deeming
their
own
opinions
most
divine
:
)
we
shall
have
almost
as
many
severall
heresies
,
sects
,
Churches
,
as
there
are
families
,
persons
;
(
Quot
homines
tot
sententiae
,
tot
Ecclesiae
:
)
Yea
,
if
they
thus
admit
every
Minister
,
or
secular
person
,
to
have
a
divine
right
,
freedom
,
to
set
up
such
an
independent
Church
and
government
as
he
pleaseth
;
then
by
the
self-same
reason
,
they
must
have
a
like
liberty
to
elect
erect
,
what
civill
forme
of
government
they
please
;
to
set
up
a
new
Independent
Republike
,
Corporation
Kingdome
,
Magistracy
,
in
every
family
,
parish
,
city
,
county
,
and
to
cast
off
all
former
civill
Governours
,
Governments
,
Lawes
at
pleasure
,
as
well
as
Ecclesiasticall
;
there
being
the
selfe-same
grounds
both
of
obligation
,
obedience
to
,
and
exemption
from
the
one
as
other
.
And
if
men
by
their
Christian
liberty
shall
thus
be
wholly
exempted
at
their
pleasure
,
as
well
from
all
temporall
as
ecclesiasticall
Lawes
and
formes
of
government
,
(
as
grant
me
but
the
one
,
they
must
of
necessity
yeeld
the
other
;
the
same
Texts
,
Reasons
obliging
us
equally
in
both
,
and
*
Kings
,
Parliaments
having
the
self-same
jurisdiction
in
and
over
all
†
ecclesiasticall
matters
,
which
are
not
positively
of
divine
institution
and
injunction
,
as
in
and
over
temporall
)
what
an
Anarchy
and
Ataxy
this
will
suddenly
introduce
,
to
turn
all
Kingdomes
,
Republikes
,
Nations
,
Corporations
,
Churches
,
Families
,
and
the
World
it self
,
quite
upside
down
,
and
ruine
them
by
schisms
;
I
tremble
to
imagine
.
5.
Whether
the
Minister
alone
,
or
the
Congregation
without
the
Minister
,
or
both
conjoined
,
have
power
in
their
Independent
Churches
to
make
and
prescribe
particular
formes
of
Church-covenants
,
orders
,
conditions
,
to
all
who
are
or
shall
be
admitted
members
of
their
new
erected
congregations
?
If
the
Minister
alone
,
without
the
people
,
(
which
I
suppose
they
grant
,
because
he
is
the
principall
actor
in
gathering
their
new
Churches
to
himselfe
,
and
the
sole
person
who
must
first
admit
them
to
be
members
of
his
Flock
,
upon
his
own
conditions
:
)
I
would
then
demand
;
whether
every
Independent
Minister
arrogates
not
as
much
or
more
power
to
himselfe
,
in
making
,
prescribing
lawes
and
covenants
to
his
congregation
by
his
own
inherent
authority
,
without
consent
of
King
,
Parliament
,
Synod
,
or
People
,
as
the
Pope
himselfe
usurpeth
,
and
farre
more
power
,
authority
,
then
Independents
either
do
or
dare
ascribe
to
Christian
Princes
,
Magistrates
,
Councels
,
or
the
Parliament
?
to
all
and
every
of
which
they
absolutely
*
deny
any
power
of
making
or
prescribing
ecclesiasticall
lawes
,
covenants
,
canons
,
to
binde
them
,
or
their
independent
Churches
or
any
members
of
them
;
yea
any
sufficient
coercive
power
to
restrain
or
punish
Hereticks
,
Schismaticks
,
or
Broachers
of
heterodox
novell
opinions
,
to
disturb
the
Churches
or
Republikes
tranquillity
.
If
the
people
alone
without
the
Minister
,
or
both
conjoyned
,
then
you
invest
every
Independent
Conventicle
,
consisting
of
never
so
few
inconsiderable
ignorant
members
,
with
a
greater
legislative
power
,
and
ecclesiasticall
authority
,
then
you
allow
to
whole
Nationall
Parliaments
,
Councels
,
consisting
of
most
eminent
,
learned
,
pious
persons
of
all
sorts
;
who
by
your
New
doctrine
have
no
jurisdiction
at
all
to
make
or
enjoyne
any
forme
of
church-government
,
covenant
,
ecclesiasticall
lawes
or
canons
,
to
any
particular
churches
:
as
if
the
eminentest
Ministers
and
members
of
churches
,
by
becomming
members
of
Parliaments
or
Councels
,
did
thereby
forfeit
and
lose
the
right
or
exercise
of
that
power
,
in
those
great
representative
bodies
of
the
whole
Kingdome
and
church
of
England
,
which
you
readily
allow
both
them
and
others
in
every
private
church
or
Conventicle
:
A
most
strange
and
senselesse
whimsie
.
6.
Whether
it
be
lawfull
or
justifiable
by
the
Word
of
God
,
for
any
Independent
Minister
of
England
,
contrary
to
the
Lawes
of
the
Realme
and
Inhibitions
of
Parliament
,
of
his
owne
bare
authority
to
congregate
and
erect
an
independent
congregation
;
or
to
prescribe
a
particular
forme
of
church-government
,
together
with
a
church-covenant
(
in
nature
of
a
solemne
Oath
)
to
which
euery
particular
member
of
his
new
congregation
must
subscribe
before
admission
into
his
Church
?
Whether
there
bee
any
the
least
precept
,
president
in
Scripture
,
or
Antiquity
to
warrant
such
an
irregular
usurped
authority
and
power
among
Christians
;
which
the
verie
Apostles
themselves
never
claimed
?
Whether
all
the
particular
churches
in
any
Nation
,
Kingdome
,
city
,
Republike
professing
the
same
orthodox
Faith
,
though
divided
(
for
more
conveniency
)
into
severall
congregations
,
be
not
all
members
of
,
and
constitute
but
*
one
intire
Nationall
church
,
or
common
christian
Society
,
as
they
did
at
first
,
before
thus
multiplied
,
augmented
?
(
even
as
all
the
particular
houses
,
parishes
,
societies
in
London
are
members
of
and
make
but
one
city
and
corporation
;
all
the
families
,
parishes
,
townes
,
counties
in
England
,
but
one
Kingdome
or
Republike
;
and
as
all
particular
and
Nationall
churches
in
the
world
,
make
up
but
one
entire
catholike
militant
church
:
)
whence
both
in
Scripture
phrase
,
and
common
speech
in
all
Authors
.
Languages
whatsoever
,
they
are
commonly
called
by
the
name
of
One
Church
,
in
the
singular
number
;
as
,
the
Church
of
England
,
France
,
Scotland
,
Ireland
;
the
Eastern
,
Westerne
,
Greeke
,
Latine
Church
;
the
Church
of
the
Jewes
,
Gentiles
,
&c.
And
if
so
,
then
let
our
Independents
shew
me
,
if
they
can
,
the
least
colour
of
Scripture
or
reason
,
why
the
Parliament
and
Assembly
(
chosen
to
assist
them
by
publike
consent
)
representing
our
whole
church
,
State
,
may
not
as
lawfully
set
up
and
prescribe
a
new
church-government
,
discipline
,
lawes
and
canons
,
agreeable
to
and
not
discrepant
from
Gods
Word
,
to
binde
all
particular
churches
and
persons
within
our
Realme
,
as
well
as
pull
downe
and
demolish
the
old
,
or
make
temporall
lawes
and
ordinances
to
binde
all
persons
,
societies
,
members
of
the
Realm
,
(
and
Independents
too
as
well
as
others
)
both
to
obedience
and
punishment
;
or
else
for
ever
disclaim
their
new-minted
government
,
their
declamations
,
arguments
against
the
power
of
nationall
Synods
Parliaments
in
Ecclesiastical
matters
and
church-government
,
as
most
ridiculous
and
absurd
.
7.
Whether
the
members
of
every
Independent
Church
,
may
at
their
owne
free
liberty
,
when
ever
they
please
,
desert
their
owne
particular
Church
,
and
become
members
of
other
Independent
or
Presbyteriall
Congregations
,
without
the
licence
or
dispensation
of
their
owne
Church
or
Minister
first
obtained
?
If
yea
,
then
why
oblige
they
them
to
the
contrary
by
particular
Church-covenants
;
or
refuse
to
admit
any
members
of
one
Independent
Church
into
another
,
without
such
consent
or
licence
first
obtained
;
or
at
least
repute
it
a
grand
injury
in
that
Church
or
Minister
who
admits
them
?
(
especially
if
they
be
wealthy
members
,
for
some
say
poore
ones
,
and
persons
of
meaner
condition
,
are
not
much
regarded
by
Independents
,
no
more
then
poore
or
contemptible
offices
.
)
If
nay
,
then
by
what
law
or
conscience
doe
,
or
can
they
congregate
their
Independent
Churches
out
of
twenty
or
thirty
severall
parishes
and
congregations
,
not
onely
without
any
authority
of
the
State
,
or
licence
of
the
Ministers
or
whole
Churches
in
those
Parishes
;
but
even
against
their
expresse
wills
and
desires
;
yet
thinke
they
doe
God
good
service
;
these
Ministers
,
Parishes
,
no
injustice
by
it
,
though
it
be
directly
contrary
to
their
owne
Principles
,
and
these
common
dictates
of
God
and
Nature
;
Quod
tibi
non
vis
fieri
alteri
ne
feceris
:
and
,
*
All
things
whatsoever
ye
would
that
men
should
doe
unto
you
,
doe
yee
even
so
unto
them
,
for
this
is
the
Law
and
the
Prophets
?
8.
Whether
Independents
peremptory
refusall
,
to
admit
any
to
be
member
,
of
their
Churches
,
to
receive
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
or
to
have
their
children
baptized
among
them
,
unlesse
they
will
first
subscribe
to
such
particular
Church-covenants
;
Orders
as
they
shall
prescribe
;
and
their
rigid
Excommunication
,
rejection
of
such
members
who
have
taken
their
Covenants
,
in
case
they
subscribe
not
to
all
their
further
dictates
and
opinions
,
without
any
re-admission
,
till
they
shall
promise
an
universall
conformity
in
opinion
and
practice
to
whatever
is
required
by
their
Independent
Minister
or
congregations
;
be
not
an
usurpation
of
as
great
yea
greater
coercive
power
over
the
consciences
,
persons
of
Christians
,
as
Presbyterians
,
Parliaments
claime
,
or
as
the
Bishops
themselves
in
the
height
of
their
pride
and
tyranny
(
as
Bishops
)
ever
challenged
or
usurped
?
Notwithstanding
Christian
liberty
of
conscience
,
in
opinions
,
practice
,
(
which
they
pretend
to
leave
arbitrary
to
every
mans
free
election
)
be
the
principall
pillar
to
support
,
the
sweetest
inescating
bait
to
entice
men
to
embrace
their
Independency
?
If
they
say
,
they
imprison
enforce
no
mans
person
or
conscience
,
but
leave
all
persons
,
consciences
free
:
I
answer
,
that
the
excluding
men
from
their
church-assemblies
,
sacraments
,
christian
communion
,
yea
their
very
innocent
infants
from
baptisme
itselfe
in
their
independent
Churches
,
unles
they
will
conforme
to
their
arbitrary
Church-covenants
,
dictates
,
prescriptions
(
warranted
by
no
Scripture
or
divine
examples
)
is
a
farre
greater
*
greivance
,
violence
,
coertion
to
the
persons
,
conscience
of
Christians
,
then
all
imprisonment
,
Racks
and
corporall
tortures
in
the
world
:
yea
an
unjust
exclusion
of
them
from
that
undoubted
right
to
the
ordinances
and
Church
of
Christ
wherewith
God
himselfe
hath
invested
them
.
9.
Whether
Independents
refusall
to
admit
such
Christians
,
who
are
not
notoriously
scandalous
in
their
lives
,
nor
grossely
ignorant
in
the
Principles
of
Religion
,
to
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
when
they
earnestly
desire
to
receive
it
,
or
professe
a
cordiall
present
remorse
of
all
their
former
sinfull
courses
,
with
an
unfained
resolution
to
live
a
pious
holy
life
for
the
future
,
onely
upon
this
suspicion
or
apprehension
,
that
they
are
but
carnall
men
,
not
truly
regenerated
or
sanctified
by
Gods
Spirit
,
(
though
they
cannot
certainly
judge
of
their
present
spirituall
conditions
,
†
infallibly
known
to
God
alone
)
be
not
a
very
uncharitable
,
arrogant
,
yea
unchristian
practice
,
contrary
to
our
Saviours
owne
immediate
example
,
who
at
the
first
institution
of
this
Sacrament
admitted
*
Judas
to
his
last
Supper
as
well
as
his
fellow-disciples
,
though
he
certainly
knew
him
to
be
both
a
Traitor
and
Devill
;
opposite
to
the
injunction
of
†
Paul
himselfe
,
who
though
he
disswades
unworthy
Receivers
from
eating
and
drinking
the
Lords
Supper
without
due
preparation
and
examination
,
for
feare
of
eating
and
drinking
damnation
or
judgment
to
,
and
drawing
downe
temporall
diseases
on
themselves
;
yet
he
simply
excludes
none
from
receiving
it
,
at
their
owne
perils
,
who
are
willing
,
or
desirous
to
participate
of
it
,
nor
gives
any
authority
to
Ministers
absolutely
to
seclude
them
from
it
,
unlesse
excommunicated
and
notoriously
scandalous
.
And
whether
their
present
deniall
to
administer
the
Sacrament
in
their
churches
to
those
who
are
truely
religious
,
earnestly
longing
even
frequently
to
receive
it
for
their
spirituall
comfort
,
according
to
Christs
own
institution
,
only
for
fear
lest
some
unregenerate
persons
should
communicate
with
them
,
and
depriving
their
whole
congregations
of
this
most
comfortable
necessary
ordinance
for
sundry
months
,
nay
yeares
,
(
as
some
have
done
)
upon
this
groundlesse
,
unwarrantable
reason●
,
refuted
by
Christs
owne
example
,
who
administred
the
Sacrament
to
the
other
Disciples
though
there
were
a
Judas
amongst
them
;
by
the
practice
,
doctrine
of
Paul
himself
1
Cor.
11.
17.
to
34.
and
the
usage
of
all
Christian
churches
throughout
the
Vniverse
,
be
not
an
over-rigid
,
uncharitable
,
unjust
(
that
I
say
not
impious
)
action
,
injurious
to
Christ
himself
,
to
the
soules
and
spirituall
estates
of
those
good
Christians
secluded
from
the
Sacrament
,
and
a
more
transcendent
strain
of
tyrannicall
usurpation
over
the
soules
,
the
consciences
of
Christians
,
and
ordinances
of
God
himself
,
than
ever
our
most
domineering
Lordly
Prelates
exercised
,
or
any
Presbyterians
have
hitherto
pretended
to
lay
claim
unto
?
If
this
proceed
not
from
a
domineering
spirit
,
and
be
not
an
excessive
*
Lording
of
it
over
the
Lords
inheritance
,
yea
over
Christ
himself
in
this
his
ordinance
,
I
professe
I
am
much
mistaken
:
Yea
,
I
feare
this
spirituall
pride
and
excessive
uncharitablenesse
of
some
,
who
take
upon
them
by
their
owne
inherent
power
to
erect
new
Congregations
,
and
set
up
new
formes
of
church-government
,
Discipline
,
&c.
in
Christian
States
,
Churches
,
already
planted
,
without
,
yea
against
their
Parliaments
,
or
†
Christian
Magistrates
authority
,
when
as
the
very
Apostles
did
never
by
their
owne
ordinary
jurisdiction
,
as
private
Ministers
,
but
onely
by
their
extraordinary
calling
,
as
Apostles
;
or
in
and
by
their
Canonicall
Epistles
,
dictated
by
Gods
Spirit
prescribe
any
matters
of
church-government
,
Discipline
,
Rites
,
or
order
to
the
particular
Churches
first
gathered
and
planted
by
themselves
alone
,
as
is
evident
by
Acts
7
,
1.
to
8.
c.
14.
22
,
23.
Tit.
1.
5.
1
Cor.
c.
7.
&
11.
&
12.
&
14.
c.
16.
1.
2.
Jam.
2.
2.
3.
c.
5.
13.
14.
15.
16.
except
in
and
by
a
publike
Synod
,
Acts
15.
)
and
thus
debarre
others
from
the
Sacrament
,
as
unmeet
Receivers
,
upon
such
unwarrantable
grounds
,
do
make
themselves
far
more
uncapable
,
unmeet
to
receive
it
,
than
those
they
thus
exclude
.
10.
Whether
that
noted
Text
of
Matth.
18.
15
,
16
,
17.
If
thy
brother
shall
trespasse
against
thee
,
goe
tell
him
his
fault
between
thee
and
him
alone
;
if
he
will
heare
thee
,
then
thou
hast
gained
thy
brother
:
But
if
he
will
not
heare
,
then
take
with
thee
one
or
two
more
,
that
in
the
mouth
of
one
or
two
witnesses
every
thing
may
be
established
.
And
if
he
shall
neglect
to
heare
them
,
TELL
IT
TO
THE
CHVRCH
;
but
if
he
neglect
TO
HEARE
THE
CHVRCH
,
let
him
be
to
thee
as
an
heathen
man
and
a
Publican
;
be
meant
of
any
Independent
or
ecclesiasticall
Consistorie
,
excommunication
,
or
church-censures
properly
so
called
?
or
not
rather
of
the
Iewish
Synedrium
,
Councell
,
or
civill
court
of
justice
,
and
of
a
civill
excommunication
,
like
to
an
Outlawry
at
the
common
Law
,
as
*
Mr
Selden
with
others
more
t●uely
interp●t●t
?
Since
our
Saviour
speaks
there
,
1.
of
a
private
trespasse
done
to
a
private
person
,
of
which
no
church
,
classes
,
or
ecclesiasticall
consistorie
,
hath
proper
conusance
;
not
of
a
publike
scandal
to
the
congregation
,
or
any
scandalous
crime
or
vice
as
is
evident
by
the
very
first
words
,
and
by
Luk.
17.
3
,
4.
compared
with
●●n
▪
50.
17.
1
King
8.
31.
2.
Of
a
demand
of
private
satisfaction
,
first
personally
,
next
in
presence
of
witnesse
,
before
any
complaint
to
the
church
or
councell
.
3.
Of
no
censure
or
judgment
passed
,
but
barely
of
an
admonition
given
by
the
church
to
the
partie
offending
;
which
if
neglected
and
not
heard
,
then
4.
Not
the
church
,
councell
,
and
all
other
persons
,
but
onely
the
partie
offended
was
to
repute
(
but
not
excommunicate
out
of
the
church
or
congregation
)
him
as
an
heathen
,
and
a
publicane
,
(
which
were
both
odious
to
the
Iewes
,
who
had
no
civill
conversation
with
them
,
and
were
no
members
of
the
Iewish
church
except
Proselites
)
as
the
expresse
words
,
let
him
be
TO
THEE
(
not
any
others
)
as
an
heathen
and
a
pulican
,
(
that
,
is
converse
no
more
with
him
,
but
avoid
his
company
,
2
Thes.
3.
14.
)
resolve
,
Which
Reasons
,
compared
with
Matth.
5.
22
,
25.
c.
10.
17.
c.
12.
14.
c.
22.
15.
c.
27.
1
,
7.
Acts
18.
12
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
16.
c.
16.
20
,
21.
c.
17.
6.
c.
23.
1.
14
,
15.
c.
24.
1.
to
7.
c.
25.
&
26.
infallibly
evidence
,
the
Church
or
Assembly
in
this
Text
to
be
meant
onely
of
the
Temporall
court
,
Councell
,
or
Sanhedrin
of
the
Iewes
,
not
of
any
Ecclesiasticall
or
Church-Iudicatory
,
or
excommunication
,
as
Papists
anciently
,
with
some
others
now
determine
.
11.
Whether
the
Apostles
and
members
of
the
first
evangelicall
Synode
,
we
read
of
Acts
15.
sate
and
voted
in
it
as
Apostles
onely
,
indued
with
a
spirit
of
infallibilitie
(
which
was
a
peculiar
priviledge
to
them
alone
,
)
or
else
in
their
ordinary
capacity
,
as
Elders
and
chief
members
of
it
?
If
as
Apostles
only
,
and
in
that
extraordinary
capacitie
,
as
*
Independents
assert
:
then
1.
Paul
and
Barnabas
being
Apostles
as
well
as
they
,
might
have
decided
that
controversie
at
Antioch
,
without
sending
to
Jerusalem
to
determine
it
:
2.
The
church
at
Antioch
would
have
sent
to
none
but
the
Apostles
to
resolve
their
doubts
,
and
not
to
the
Elders
at
Jerusalem
as
well
as
to
the
Apostles
,
as
they
did
vers.
2.
Thirdly
,
Paul
and
Barnabas
would
have
put
the
question
to
the
Apostles
onely
,
not
to
the
Elders
and
church
as
well
as
to
them
,
which
they
did
vers.
4
,
5
,
6.
Fourthly
,
the
Apostles
would
not
have
called
a
Synod
of
all
the
Apostles
Elders
and
Brethren
at
Jerusalem
to
consider
of
or
consult
about
this
thing
vers.
6.
but
have
determined
it
presently
by
their
infallible
spirit
without
consultation
,
or
a
Synods
assistance
.
Fifthly
,
Peter
and
James
would
not
have
argued
the
case
so
largely
,
and
proved
it
by
arguments
and
Scriptures
as
they
did
,
one
after
another
,
vers.
17
to
23.
but
have
peremptorily
resolved
it
without
dispute
,
had
they
sate
and
determined
it
by
their
extraordinarie
infallible
power
.
Sixtly
,
the
finall
resolution
,
letters
,
and
canons
of
this
Synod
had
run
onely
in
the
Apostles
names
,
had
they
proceeded
onely
by
their
Apostolicall
infallible
authoritie
,
and
not
in
the
names
of
the
Elders
and
Brethren
too
,
(
coupled
together
with
theirs
both
in
the
letters
and
canons
,
vers.
21
,
22
,
23
,
24
,
27
,
28.
c.
16.
4.
c.
21.
18.
25.
)
who
were
not
all
endued
with
the
self-same
infallibility
and
power
as
the
Apostles
were
,
for
ought
can
be
proved
;
Therfore
their
assembling
in
this
councell
,
not
in
their
extraordinary
capacity
as
Apostles
only
,
but
as
Elders
,
Ministers
;
and
the
Elders
,
Brethrens
sitting
together
in
Councel
with
them
,
upon
this
controversie
and
occasion
,
is
an
undeniable
Scripture-authority
for
the
lawfulnesse
,
use
of
Parliaments
,
Councels
,
Synods
under
the
Gospel
,
upon
all
like
necessarie
occasions
;
and
for
their
power
to
determine
controversies
of
Religion
,
to
make
Canons
in
things
necessary
for
the
churches
peace
and
government
,
(
there
being
no
one
place
in
Scripture
against
it
,
but
many
Texts
in
the
old
Testament
to
backe
it
,
elsewhere
quoted
)
mauger
all
evasions
,
exceptions
to
elude
it
.
12.
Whether
the
temporall
Magistrate
,
Parliament
,
and
civill
State
,
have
not
a
lawfull
coercive
power
,
though
*
not
to
restraine
the
preaching
of
the
Gospel
and
truth
of
God
,
yet
to
suppresse
,
restraine
,
imprison
,
confine
,
banish
the
broachers
of
any
heresies
,
schismes
,
erronious
seditious
doctrines
,
enthusiasmes
,
or
setters
up
of
new
formes
of
Ecclesiasticall
government
without
lawfull
authoritie
,
to
the
endangering
of
the
peoples
soules
,
or
disturbance
of
the
Churches
,
Kingdomes
peace
,
as
well
as
Ministers
and
particular
Churches
Christians
,
power
to
*
reprove
,
refute
,
avoid
,
excommunicate
or
anathematize
them
,
notwithstanding
†
some
Independents
new-minted
objections
against
it
:
and
that
by
virtue
of
Deut.
13.
1.
to
12.
Lev.
24.
11.
to
17.
Num.
26.
throughout
,
Josh.
7.
25.
26.
c.
22.
11.
to
34.
Psal.
101.
4
5
,
8.
4
,
5
,
8.
1
King.
18.
40.
2
King.
10.
21
,
to
29.
c.
23.
5.
20.
2
Chro.
34.
4.
5.
Rom.
13.
1.
to
6.
1
Pet.
2.
14.
Gal.
5.
12.
Rev.
2.
20.
c.
19.
20.
21.
cap.
17.
16.
And
the
ten
hornes
(
interpreted
to
be
ten
Kings
v.
12.
)
shall
hate
the
whore
(
with
all
her
Panders
)
and
shall
make
her
desolate
and
naked
,
and
shall
eat
her
flesh
,
and
shall
burne
her
with
fire
:
for
God
hath
put
it
into
their
hearts
TO
FVLFILL
HIS
WILL
,
Ezra
7.
26.
And
whosoever
will
not
doe
the
Law
of
thy
God
,
let
judgment
be
executed
speedily
upon
him
,
whether
it
be
unto
death
,
or
unto
banishment
,
or
to
confiscation
of
goods
,
or
to
imprisonment
,
with
sundry
*
other
Texts
.
Hence
*
Christian
Princes
,
Magistrates
,
Parliaments
,
in
all
ages
and
churches
in
the
world
have
made
severe
temporall
Lawes
,
Edicts
against
,
and
inflicted
corporall
punishment
,
banishment
,
confiscation
of
goods
,
(
and
in
some
cases
death
it selfe
)
upon
Hereticks
,
Schismaticks
,
disturbers
of
the
churches
peace
with
erronious
or
seditious
doctrines
:
which
lawfull
power
of
theirs
hath
ever
bin
asserted
by
the
most
†
orthodox
Churches
,
Writers
in
all
ages
,
and
never
oppugned
by
any
but
Anabaptists
,
who
deny
all
civill
Magistrates
,
or
such
licencious
Hereticks
,
Schismaticks
,
or
false
Teachers
,
who
would
spread
their
pestilent
errours
,
and
seditious
novell
positions
without
restraint
;
or
durst
never
suffer
Martyrdome
for
,
or
seale
them
with
the
losse
of
their
Liberties
,
Lives
,
Estates
,
which
godly
orthodox
Martyrs
and
Christians
have
cheerfully
undergone
,
under
Pagan
,
Hereticall
,
and
Popish
Kings
,
Magistrates
.
And
if
we
either
deny
,
abolish
,
eclipse
,
diminish
,
or
suspend
this
necessary
coercive
power
(
the
principall
meanes
under
God
to
suppresse
,
extirpate
all
growing
errours
,
schismes
,
which
disturbe
the
churches
trantranquilitie
,
seduce
unstable
soules
)
our
church
and
realmes
will
be
soone
overgrowne
with
dangerous
errours
,
heresies
,
schismes
,
and
brought
to
speedy
desolation
;
the
contemptible
sword
of
excommunication
,
or
non-communion
,
and
the
bare
preaching
of
Gods
Word
to
obstinate
Hereticks
,
Papists
,
Schismaticks
,
(
who
will
*
contemn
the
Word
,
and
excommunicate
all
other
churches
dissenting
from
them
,
as
hereticall
,
schismaticall
,
as
fast
as
they
excommunicate
or
discommon
them
,
and
so
propagate
,
perpetuate
their
heresies
,
schismes
,
without
redresse
)
being
unable
to
suppresse
such
peremptory
offendors
,
without
the
temporall
Magistrates
sword
of
justice
added
to
them
;
Who
having
a
lawfull
jurisdiction
derived
to
them
in
the
Gospel
,
*
to
punish
and
suppresse
all
evill
doers
,
without
distinction
,
have
doubtlesse
an
unquestionable
authority
to
punish
obstinate
Heretickes
,
Schismaticks
,
false
Teachers
,
with
temporall
censures
,
who
are
the
greatest
malefactors
,
sinning
against
the
Word
and
Truth
of
God
,
disturbing
the
peace
of
Church
,
State
,
seducing
and
destroying
peoples
soules
;
a
far
greater
crime
then
to
murder
their
bodies
,
or
rob
them
of
their
estates
.
In
briefe
,
all
Protestant
Churches
whatsoever
,
in
their
publike
*
Confessions
acknowledge
,
that
the
care
of
preserving
,
propagating
true
Religion
;
of
suppressing
,
extirpating
heresies
,
errours
,
schismes
,
superstition
,
idolatry
,
and
the
fautors
of
them
,
by
temporall
punishments
and
censures
of
all
sorts
,
doth
principally
belong
to
Christian
Magistrates
,
Kings
,
Princes
:
(
Which
duty
they
can
in
no
sort
execute
,
if
now
(
with
the
Anabaptists
)
ou
deny
them
this
most
just
coercive
power
:
)
That
all
lawfull
civill
Magistrates
and
Powers
whatsoever
,
though
instituted
by
men
,
are
even
in
the
new
Testament
expresly
resolved
,
to
be
the
*
Ordinances
of
God
,
and
all
their
just
commands
,
Lawes
,
Edicts
,
(
not
repugnant
to
Gods
Word
)
readily
to
be
obeyed
and
submitted
to
,
EVEN
FOR
CONSCIENCE
,
and
FOR
THE
LORDS
SAKE
,
under
paine
of
sinne
and
condemnation
:
Therefore
what
ever
our
pious
Parliament
,
the
supreme
power
,
by
advice
of
the
Assembly
,
after
much
Fasting
,
Prayer
,
Disputes
,
Advice
,
and
serious
consultation
,
shall
order
,
decree
touching
Church-government
or
discipline
,
as
most
consonant
and
not
repugnant
to
Gods
Word
,
ought
in
point
of
conscience
to
be
submitted
to
by
Independents
and
all
others
,
as
to
a
Government
,
Discipline
,
Ordinance
approved
of
by
God
;
and
if
any
Heretickes
,
false
Teachers
,
Schismaticks
obstinately
refuse
conformity
after
due
admonition
,
and
all
good
means
used
to
reclaim
them
the
Poets
Divinity
and
Policy
must
then
take
place
,
as
well
in
Eclcesiasticall
as
civill
and
naturall
maladies
:
*
Cuncta
prius
tentanda
,
sed
immedicabile
vulnus
Ense
rescidendum
est
,
ne
pars
syncera
trahatur
.
Deut.
12.
8.
Ye
shall
not
doe
after
the
things
that
we
doe
here
this
day
,
every
man
whatsoever
is
right
in
his
owne
eyes
.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A91196e-250
*
Gal.
4.
16.
a
Reply
of
two
of
the
brethren
to
A.
S.
p.
66.
b
Luk.
●
.
37.
*
I
pray
informe
me
why
an
whole
Parliament
and
Assembly
of
godly
Christians
and
Divines
,
wherein
are
many
of
your
owne
chiefe
Independent
Ministers
,
members
,
should
be
more
secular
,
unclean
,
filthy
,
or
unable
to
make
a
spirituall
extraction
of
Church-government
,
then
one
of
your
Independent
Churches
or
Conventicles
?
c
A
Reply
to
A.
S.
p.
85.
d
Page
42.
to
65.
e
Pro.
2●●●6
cap.
30.
1●
.
●●●
65.
5.
〈◊〉
.
18.
10.
to
16.
f
1
Chron.
13.
4
,
5.
Act.
15.
22
,
23
&c.
g
Eccles.
4.
9
,
10
,
11
:
h
Pro.
11.
14
i
1
Chro.
13
3
,
4
,
5.
&c.
28.
〈◊〉
29.
2
Chro.
●
.
5
&
6.
&
7.
c.
23
2
,
3.
c.
30.
10.
to
27.
c.
31
●
.
●isth
.
9
,
20.
〈◊〉
31.
Ezra
3.
1.
c.
10.
1.
&c
,
●eh
.
8.
1
,
&c.
*
They
should
●owell
to
define
,
1.
Of
how
many
members
,
every
Independent
Congregation
should
consist
?
2.
Within
what
precincts
they
should
live
?
3.
What
set
stipends
they
shall
allow
them
,
and
how
raised
when
ascertained
?
4.
When
and
where
their
Churches
should
assemble
?
5.
Who
shall
prescribe
extraordinary
〈◊〉
of
fasting
or
thansgiving
to
them
upon
just
occasions
?
6.
Who
shall
rectifie
their
Church-covenants
,
Discipline
,
Censures
,
Government
,
if
erronious
or
unjust
?
7.
Shew
us
a
sufficient
satisfactory
Commission
from
Gods
Word
for
all
they
doe
or
desire
,
before
they
gather
any
Churches
.
*
Reply
of
two
of
the
Brethren
64
,
65
,
66
,
&c.
*
1
Cor.
1.
11.
12.
13.
cap.
3.
3
,
4.
Mat.
12.
51.
52.
53.
*
2
Tim.
4.
3
;
4
A
proplaesse
which
concerns
our
present
times
.
†
Gal.
5
,
20
,
21.
c.
2.
11
,
12
,
14.
Act.
15.
39.
●
Thes.
2.
11.
Rom.
1.
29.
31
c.
16.
17.
1
Tim
6.
5
,
6.
Tit.
3
9.
*
Reply
of
two
of
the
brethren
pag.
52.
●0
61.
*
2
Tim
4
6.
*
See
1
Chro.
13.
1
to
7.
2
Chro.
5.
&
6
,
&
7.
c.
15.
8.
to
16
c.
30.
1
to
7.
c.
31.
1.
c.
34.
31
,
32
,
33
,
34.
Ezra
7.
26.
cap.
10.
1
to
7.
Esth.
9.
20.
to
32.
†
25.
H.
8
c.
19
21.
37.
H.
8.
c.
17
,
26.
H.
8.
c.
1
27.
H.
8.
c.
16.
28.
H.
8.
c.
10.
1.
E.
6.
c.
2.
1.
Eliz.
6.
c.
1
,
2.
8.
Eliz.
c.
1.
31.
H.
8.
c.
10
,
14.
32.
H.
8.
c.
22
,
24
,
28.
33.
H.
8.
c.
29
,
34.
&
35.
H.
8.
c.
17.
19.
35.
H.
8.
c.
1.
3.
*
Reply
of
two
of
the
brethren
p.
52.
to
69.
*
As
one
and
the
same
City
,
Kingdom
,
Nation
,
encreased
with
new
houses
,
parishes
,
streets
,
territories
,
and
generations
of
people
,
continue
still
but
one
and
the
self-same
City
,
Kingdom
,
Nation
:
So
the
first
Christian
Church
planted
in
any
City
,
Kingdome
,
Nation
,
when
spread
over
all
that
City
,
Kingdome
,
Nation
,
and
distributed
into
severall
particular
congregations
,
continues
but
one
and
the
self-same
generall
Church
of
which
all
particular
Churches
are
members
,
and
not
Independent
absolute
in
themselves
,
divided
from
,
or
vnsubjected
to
the
intire
common
nationall
Church
.
1
Cor.
12.
12
,
to
22.
Ep●●
.
2.
19
,
20
,
21.
c.
1.
3
,
to
17.
Acts
2.
47.
*
Matth
7.
12.
〈◊〉
c.
6.
31.
*
Psal.
34.
1.
to
11.
Psal.
120.
3
Psal.
42.
1
,
2.
Psal.
27
:
4.
†
2
Chro.
6.
30.
Ier
17.
19.
20.
Act.
1.
24
*
M●●●
.
26.
20
to
32.
Mark
14.
10
,
&c.
Luke
22.
3.
to
24.
Iohn
6.
70
,
71.
†
1
Cor.
11.
17.
to
34.
*
1
Pet.
5.
3.
†
Moses
the
chief
temporal
Magistrate
under
the
Law
,
together
with
David
,
Solomon
,
and
other
godly
kings
,
did
by
Gods
owne
direction
,
and
approbation
,
direct
,
order
,
and
settle
all
particulars
in
and
about
the
Altar
,
Tabernacle
,
Arke
,
Temple
,
consecrating
both
them
and
the
Priests
too
,
appointing
all
Officers
about
them
,
together
with
the
courses
of
the
Priests
,
Singers
;
&
that
by
cōmon
advice
of
the
Princes
,
Captains
,
Elders
of
the
people
,
&
not
by
the
votes
or
directions
of
the
Priests
,
who
had
no
ruling
voice
herein
:
which
authority
being
no where
revoked
nor
denied
Christian
Princes
,
Magistrates
,
Parliaments
,
under
the
Gospel
,
they
no
doubt
enjoy
it
still
.
And
therefore
these
Ministers
who
thus
erect
new
Churches
usurp
on
their
authority
.
*
De
Anno
civili
,
&c
Pr●satio
p.
6.
●
&c
18.
p
83
,
84
And
D
jure
Natura
&
Gent●um
l.
4.
c.
8.
*
Reply
to
A.
S.
p
70
,
71.
*
Mat.
10.
17
,
18
Mar.
9.
10
,
13
Acts
4.
16.
to
23.
c.
5.
17.
to
the
end
.
*
1
Tim.
1.
19
,
20.
2
Cor.
6.
14.
to
18.
Rom.
16.
17.
Tit.
3.
10
,
11.
2
Ioh.
10
,
11.
†
Reply
of
two
of
the
brethren
p.
51.
to
63.
*
Matt.
10.
17
,
18
,
21.
c.
26.
47
,
to
74.
c.
27.
1
,
to
60.
Acts
4.
1
,
to
24
c.
5
17
,
to
40.
c.
6.
12
,
13.
c.
9.
1
,
2
,
3.
c.
11.
2
,
3
,
4.
c.
16.
20
,
to
40.
c.
18.
12.
&c.
c.
23
,
&
24
&
25
,
&
26
,
&
27.
rightly
understood
.
*
Iustinian
.
Codic
.
l.
1.
Tit.
8.
10.
and
our
Lawes
against
Iesuits
,
Priests
and
Recusants
.
†
See
the
Harmony
of
Confessions
sect.
19.
*
Psal.
58.
4
,
5.
Ier.
30.
19.
c.
〈◊〉
.
33.
Isa
30.
●
,
10.
2
Tim.
4
▪
3
,
1.
*
Rom.
13.
1
,
〈◊〉
7.
1
Pet.
2.
13
,
14
,
15.
Tit.
3.
1.
*
See
Harmony
of
Confessions
Sect.
19.
*
Rom.
13.
1
,
to
8.
1
Pet.
2.
13
,
14
,
15.
Tit.
●
,
1
,
10
,
11.
●
Pet.
2.
10
,
11
Iude
8
,
9
*
Ovid
Me
〈…〉