Peters company, and at that time met together, were capable of an Apostleship, and such as were the most eminent of all Christs followers, and such as were best instructed in Christian Religion, as having been bred up in the doctrine of Saint Iohn the Baptist, and under the Ministry of Christ himselfe, the Pro∣phet of his Church; and therefore they were the Teachers of the Church and people, who were their flock which they all fed in common: And from thence it argueth, That the multitude of Beleevers in Ierusalem was not onely a distinct company from them, but that it was exceeding great and numerous, that had so many Pastors and Teachers over them: For if they had been but so small a company as is here mentioned, and that the whole Church had consisted but of sixscore names, then the Pastors exceed the number of the flocke; which is not onely absurd to thinke, but against the evident truth of the holy Scriptures, which relate unto us multitudes upon multitudes that were day∣ly converted by the ministery of John the Baptist, and of Christ and his Apostles, and added unto the Church before this their meet∣ing.So that by this I have now said, it is most clear and evident, that all or most of these, were the most eminent Ministers of the Gospell, and the Presbytery of the Church. But in this, that our Brethren do acknowledge, That this assembly here spake of were the church, it makes as much against them, and greatly for us: for it is manifest▪ from the Text, that they were the Ministers and Preachers of the Gospell, and in that they give them the name and title of the Church, it followeth that the representative body and Presbytery is a Church, and that to them onely belongs the power and authority of the Keyes: according to that of our Saviour in Matth. 18▪ 17, 18. Tell it unto the Church, &c. and whatsoever ye binde on Earth shall be bound in Heaven; and whatsoever ye loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven. By which words, all au∣thority is put into the true Ministers hands; so that they onely have the power and authority of ordaining Pastors and Presbyters among themselves; as Paul sufficiently declares in his Epistles to Timothy and Titus: and that they have not onely the title of the Church, but a Charter and Warrant also granted unto them of ruling and governing the Church, and of ordaining Church▪offi∣cers, and that by joynt and common consent among themselves, 0