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ARGUMENT II.
Christ himself never assumed to himself,* 1.1 nor ever exercised any interest of Authority or power so exorbitant or over-bearing, as to give authori∣ty and power to any lesser or smaller number of men, at least not of such men, to whom he was not able, his Fathers Will standing to the contrary, to give both infallibility of judgement, and intemerable faithfulness, in matters of Faith and supernatural concernment, to exercise any such dominion over the Faith, Judgements, or Consciences of far greater numbers of men, and these every way equal, at least many of them, (if not superiour) to them, both in gifts and graces, and all spiritual endowments, as the persons commissioned amongst us by the two Ordinances specified, do by vertue hereof, exercise over the judge∣ments and faith of all the Ministers of the Gospel in this Nation, yea, and over the faith of all those whom God, (as both these Commissioners and others have cause to judge) calleth unto this ministery. For is not this the ju∣risdiction, lordship, or dominion, which they by vertue of their Commissions (respectively) exercise over the Faith of that great number of worthy persons now men∣tioned, even to Eject them out of the possession and en∣joyment of such livelihoods which the mercifull provi∣dence of God in conjunction with the Laws of their Na∣tion, have entituled them unto? to cast them out (I say) of the enjoyment of their lawfull subsistence to the ex∣treme misery, if not utter affamishing, of themselves, wives and children, onely because they will not, or ra∣ther, because in conscience they cannot beleeve or profess as they, being in this case made their Lords and Masters, require them upon the said penalty to beleeve; the other, upon a like account, shutting against others by the iron bars of their authority, the door of access unto such live∣lihoods, whereunto both by the providence of God, and