III.

Argument.

IF mixed communion and society came in upon the Apostacie and falling away,* and Parochial Congregations were formed up afterward from such mixt Communion: If as Antichrist prevailed, so darknesse and corruption prevailed upon Believers: If Churches were called Golden Candlesticks before,* and a Fel∣lowship of Saints,* and the Body of Christ, and Kingdom of God, till they grew mixed: If the mixt Congregations by Parishes came in first by Dionysius Bishop of Rome,* in the yeer 267; and in England by Honorius Bishop of Canterbury;* and peo∣ple were onely made Congregations by conveniency of situation, and the Law of civil Politie: If Parishes were first the seats of Popery,* and after the seats of Prelacy, and now fall under the Presbytery in the same kinde and notion of a mixed multi∣tude:

Then mixt and Parochial Congregations are not that way and order of Christ for Ordinances which was the primitive way revealed and practised in the Gospel. But all this is unde∣niably true from the best Historians: Therefore not mixt Communion and Fellowship, but pure and unmixt, is the onely Ordinance of Christ.

Now I shall leave you for the present, and commend parti∣culars unto you and the Kingdom: the one, A rule of Eviden∣ces for Spiritual Communion, drawn from the Scriptures; the other, A remarkable passage in the Book of Vindication.