this day, and manner of sanctifying it in every re∣spect, primarily and directly subject to the Chur∣ches authority; nor need they question this, since the Jewes Church had power in such things, and circumstances of the divine worship, not particu∣larly determined by God himselfe, or his servant Moses in the Law, as seen in sundry very materiall rites and observances, as the appointment of hours for the daily sacrifice, building of their Syna∣gogues throughout the land, to hear Gods word, and pray in, divers feasts, as of Purim, dedication, and the like, which Christs Church no way infe∣riour to theirs, rather superiour in the measure of grace, and presence of his Spirit, should not be a∣bridged of in all reason, or to prescribe and or∣daine lawes for things tending to her better e∣dification, and in things undetermined as this is, in that circumstance, and the rather to be granted for this determination of the time, as well at least, as of the place, manner of prayer, and formes of it, and celebrating the Sacraments, and divers other, as prime and remarkable circumstances of the di∣vine worship; and the place assuredly, as mate∣riall as the time to be determined or assigned, nor should our brethren that are gone from us, (in place, and no lesse in opinion) as farre as the breadth of the Atlantique ocean, or that staying at, home, yet hold a wood perhaps, or barn, or parlour, for places good enough for their divine worship, since Christ, not assigned Churches particularly, they should, I say, not complain of the time not set out by Christ, since neither was the place set out by him, nor of the time assigned by the Church, if Christ not assigned it, since so well ordered, and