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There shall be but one Consistory in each Church, and it shall not be permitted to Establish other Council for any Church-business whatever. If in any Church there shall any other Council be established different from the Consistory, it shall forthwith be suppress'd. Nevertheless the Consistory
can sometimes call to its aid, such of the Church as shall be thought convenient, when occasion requires, and that Eccle∣siastical matters be treated of only in the place where the Con∣sistory doth Assemble.
There was not anciently in each Christian Church any more than one Ecclesiastical Senate, as we have heard by Origen, and this Senate was not properly any thing else, but what we call Consistory; which is a company of Persons which the Church does invest with her Rights and Power to Govern the Flock.