and legs, by way of ascending, nor yet from the armes, breas, and shoulders, by descending. I deny not but here there may bee in other considerations, some order; as, if you aske which is t first Church; I answer with these distinctions of primatus, firstnesse.1. The first Church, by way of constitution, is a congregation, Constitution and Intention. in the family of Adam and E.2. The first Church, by way of divine intention, is the Catholick Church.Hence secondly, The first Church, by generation, or the order of generation, and so the lesse perfit, is a Congregation, and here is an ascension still from the part to the whole, from a Congrega∣tion to a Presbytery, from thence to a provinciall Church, from thence to a nationall, from thence to the Catholick Church.And the first Church by way of perfection, is that Catholick QueenGeneration and Perfection. and Spouse which Christ is to present to the Father, without sp or wrinkle, and all parts are for this perfect whole, all the mi∣nistery, ordinances, the dispensation of the worke of redemp∣tion, Christ, his death, resurrection, intercession, &c. are for this as the end, the perfectum totum, Ephes. 5. 25, 26. Ephes. 4. 11. 12. 13. 1 Cor. 15. 23, 24.Hence thirdly, if wee regard the order of operation; The Congre∣gationExercise of power, and power it selfe. is primum movens, and primum operans, for all the moti∣ons of the Catholick-Church beginneth at the inferior wheeles and at the lower spikes, if a generall councell bee to inact any thing, motions must begin at the single Congregation at An∣tioch, at Jerusalem, and from thence ascend to a Preshytery, and from thence a nationall Church is to send their Commissioners to act in a Catholick councell, though if wee looke to the power it selfe, it is intrinsecally in the whole and in every part of the Catholick Church.The fourth distinction considerable here is, that wee are to regard either,1. The order of nature,Or 1. The order of the inhesion of this power.or 2. The order of time.Or 2. Of the reall derivation of power.If wee respect the order of nature, the power, by order of na∣ture, is given by Christ immediatly, first to the whole Catholick0