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Againe let me remind the Reader, what light the truth hath gained, if we look at it, as laid forth in the right frame of it. As thus.
1. The common nature of a Church, and so the nature of of∣ficers in that proportion, are only existing, acting, and become visible in the particulars, as their species.
2. Hence all officers and office-power, as the nature of the
Church, so their nature, is equally, firstly, independently, com∣municated to all particular congregations: so that they do not receive office nor office power, one particular from another, or more particulars, because all particulars share in all equally and firstly, as species pertake of the nature of a Genus.
3. Hence it is not lawfull for the Churches to give away this their power unto others, nor lawfull for others to take it away from them. And therefore they should not, by combining them∣selves with others lose this, nor should other Churches, by combination take this power from them, in whole or in part.