Apostle to this assembly, then another. But in regard not one Paster could say (this is my flock, not this) nor any flock could say (Peter is our Pastor, not Andrew.) Therefore there was no Church-state in any of these congregations as where there is not a head of a Family and members, there is not a Family, and so you prove not Jerusalem a presbyteriall Church over many fixed and formed Churches, as they are in Scotland, and if the Apostles were pastors in a circular and fluid way to many congregations, every one was a pastor to many congregations and so elected by many congregations: which is absurd.Ans. 1. Fixed or not fixed cannot vary the essence of the go∣vernment. 1. The Priests, Levites, and Prophets teaching in the wildernes from place to place, and the people by war scattered to sundry Tribes, doth not make these meetings not to be under the government of the great Sanedrim, more then if the meeting made a fixed Synagogue, divers members and dverso heads in one Family occasioned by death, and pestilence, diverse Souldiers and new Commanders in a Regiment, diverse Inhabitants, yea and weekly altered rulers and watchmen in a City, doth not in∣fer that that family, Regiment, and City is not under one govern∣ment of the City, one of the whole army, and one parliamentary law of the whole kingdome; no more then if all were fixed in members and heads. 2. Churches their persecution may have both members and teachers removed to a corner, and altered, yet they remain the same single Congregation having the same go∣vernment. 3. Officiating in the same word, seales, censures, by Pe∣ter, to day, and by Andrew, to morrow, though members also be changed, is of the same species and nature, even to the worlds and, if we suppose the Church of Ierusalem to be one Congregation induring a patterne these sixteen hundred yeares, members and officers must be often altered, yet it is one Congregation in specie, and one single Church in nature, though not in number, and the government not altered, through the fluidity and alteration of members and officers, as it is the same Parliament now which was in the raigne of King Iames, though head and members be altered; fluidity and alteration of rulers and members must be, by reason of mortality accidentall to all incorporations, and yet their government for all that doth remaine the same in nature, if these same Lawes, and Government in nature by these Lawes remaine.0