1 Pages 11, 14. * Pages 9—11. 3 II). 05. i Ib. » Way of
the Churches, 1, 2. e lb. 10. ' lb. 21. » Ans. to Prynnc's Full
Reply, 21. ' Ch. Gov. 51, 52, 63, 235 ; and Catchism, 6. 10 Han-
i. 114. " lb. 229. " lb. 231. ,a Reformed Churches, in ib. 314.
" rb. ii. 225. " Ib. iii. 246—248. > s Vindication Cong. Churches,
ib. 157. " Vol. ii. 122. 18 Vol. sis. 211. " Enquiry, part i. 4, 6.
>° Principles of the Protestant Religion, 129. a Divine Inst. Cong.
Churches, 34, 35. " Page 58. M Vol. i. 332, 333. u Marrow of
Sacred Divinity, 139. " Ib. 178. M System, ii. 224.
CHURCHES, instituteil bodies. — Dr. Goodwin
wrote the first two books of his Church Government
to prove "that the order and government of the
churches are established by divine institution; . ..
that Christ has settled ordinances for worship and
discipline, which are to continue to the end of the
world ; . . . that a Congregational church is thus of
divine institution; . . . that Christ instituted such a
church in Matt, xviii. ; . . . that such Congregational
churches were primitive and apostolical; . . . and that
Christ hath not only instituted a Congregational
church, but appointed what the extent and limits of
it should be." The treatise is too extensive to admit
of even an epitome in a single article. Suffice it to
say, that, when the student has read and digested the
whole work of four hundred and sixty -two folio pages,
it will not be easy for him to conclude that Congre-



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