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PART II. Of the CHURCH considered as Corpus Organicum.
CHAP. I. Of the number of Officers therein, and the nature thereof.
WE have in the foregoing part of our Dis∣course enquired, touching the constituti∣on of a Church, in regard of the materi∣all and formall causes of it, and the spe∣ciall qualifications that attend therupon, in regard of the power and priviledges that appertaine unto it; and thus farre we have looked at it, as Totum Essentiale; and yet there is much more required to make up the integrity and perfection thereof, that it may be compleated in all the speciall Members and Officers, which the Lord Christ hath appointed and set in this visible body of his, for the improve∣ment of the speciall operation of every part, and the edificati∣on of it selfe in love, Ephe 4.13, 16.
And thus the Church becomes Corpus Orgenicum, A body or∣ganized of such prime and choice members, which may con∣duce to the beauty and building of the body in that intirenesse that it may grow up to an holy temple in the Lord.