3. If the Invisible Church be the prime subject, to whom the Seals do appertain, then they belong immediatly to them, and to all others by their means, and this the rule of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, infers undeniably. Therefore in an orderly way, they must first be dispensed to them, and from them communi∣cated to others. As heat is first in fire, and from fire com∣municated to other things,
But this M. R. elsewhere overborn, as it seems with the beau∣ty of the truth, doth plainly deny. p. 18.2.
The orderly giving of the Seals belongeth to the visible Church, and by this de∣vice the visible Church must have them firstly, and the invisible from her.
Which is professedly crosse to the rule formerly mentioned, as all men grant.