[Footnote 23:  [Greek:  Ekklaesia], Acts xix. 32, 39, 40; Eph. v. 23; 1 Cor. xii. 98.]

[Footnote 24:  Cameron.  Praelect de Eccles. in fol. pp. 296-298.]

[Footnote 25:  Who in relating such things can refrain from weeping?]

[Footnote 26:  See Mr. Edwards’s Antapologia, page 201, printed in anno 1644, proving this out of their own books.  Especially see a little book in 12mo. printed in anno 1646, styled a collection of certain matters, which almost in every page pleads for Independency and Independents by name:  from which most of the Independent principles seem to be derived.]

[Footnote 27:  Let not any man put off this Scripture, saying, This is in the Old Testament, but we find no such thing in the gospel; for we find the same thing, almost the same words used in a prophecy of the times of the gospel, Zech. xiii. 3.  In the latter end of the xii. chapter, it is prophesied that those who pierced Christ, should look upon him and mourn, &c., having a spirit of grace and supplication poured upon them, chap. xiii. 1.  “There shall now be opened a fountain for sin, and for uncleanness,” ver. 3.  “It shall come to pass that he that takes upon him to prophesy, that his father and mother that begat him, shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord:  and his father and his mother that begat him, shall thrust him through, when he prophesieth.”  You must understand this by that in Deuteronomy.  The meaning is not that his father or mother should presently run a knife into him, but that though they begat him, yet they should be the means to bring him to condign punishment, even the taking away his life; these who were the instruments of his life, should now be the instruments of his death.—­Mr. Jer.  Burroughs in ills Irenicum, chap. v., Pages 19, 20, printed 1646.]

[Footnote 28:  But schismatics and heretics are called evil-workers, Phil. iii. 2; and heresy is classed among the works of the flesh, Gal. v. 20.]

[Footnote 29:  Mr. Burroughs in his Irenicum, c.v. page 25; printed 1646.]

[Footnote 30:  See this evidenced upon divers grounds in Appollon. jus Majest., pp. 25, 26.]

[Footnote 31:  See M.S. to A.S., pages 55-60.]

[Footnote 32:  The civil magistrate is no proper church officer, as was intimated, Part 1 c. 1., and will be further evidenced in this chapter.]

[Footnote 33:  That the civil magistrate is not the vicar of Christ our Mediator, see abundantly proved by Mr. S. Rutherford, in his Divine Right of Church Government, &c., Ch. 27, Quest. 23, pages 595 to 647.]