are so notorious, that the senses of men may as infallibly prove the fact, as we know there is such a City in the world as Rome, and Cntantinople; as for the instance that a catholick councell cannot ordinarily be had, to relax a repenting nationall Church: I answer, the same inconvenience will follow, if we suppose an ordinary case, the Church congregationall (as our Brethren suppose) of Ie∣rusalem, Acts. 2. consisting of three thousand and a hundred and twenty, having excommunicated Ananias, Saphira, and others, who yet by the grace of God, should truely repent; in the meane time, the Sword of the Roman Emperor intervening scattereth this Church, that they cannot convene in a spirituall Court, to relax them (and out of Court they have no authority of Juris∣diction) here were an invincible necessity of their remaining in Satansbonds, in foro externo ecclesiae. But what then? This is to li∣mit God, as Papists do in binding and tying salvation of Infants to the outward signe of externall baptisme; as if God, in soro caeli, in his own Court could not absolve penitent sinners, because the Church will not, which is more ordinary, through mens cor∣ruption, or cannot absolve, through the necessity of exigence of divine providence: and the more catholick that crosses be, as war, the universall and catholick cruelty, and treachery of the church of Mlignants against the true catholick Church of Christ, the more easily are the Juridicall and Court-operations, actions and proceedings of the catholick universall Church impedited. And therefore this of our Saviours, tell the Church, is necessarily to be applyed to all Churches and Courts of Christ, even to a catholick councell, though Christ gave instances in an offended Brother, who is to tell the Church, But I am sure, (tell the church) is not to be restricted to a vocal & personall complaining of one brother against another, in the face of a single Congregation. For if the offence be committed before the Sun at noon-day in the seeing and hearing of the church, either congregationall, or presbyteriall, as some may, and one do by word and writ openly blaspheme God: in this case Christs affirmative command, tell the church, doth not in conscience oblige one man to come and deale with the delinquent in private, and then (if he repent not) before witnesses, & then to tell the church, so as one sinneth if he tell not the church; for here Gods providence disposing of the notoriousnesse 0