3.  What power is it that is committed to the body of the Church or multitude of the faithful?  Either it must be the power of order, or the power of jurisdiction.  But neither of these is allowed to the multitude of the faithful by the Scriptures, (but appointed and appropriated to select persons.) Not the power of order; for the whole multitude, and everyone therein, neither can nor ought to intermeddle with any branches of that power. 1.  Not with preaching; all are not apt to teach, 1 Tim. iii. 2, nor able to exhort and convince gainsayers, Tit. i. 9; all are not gifted and duly qualified.  Some are expressly prohibited speaking in the church, 1 Cor. xiv. 34, 35, 1 Tim. ii. 12, Rev. ii. 20, and none are to preach, unless they be sent, Rom. x. 15, nor to take such honor unto themselves unless they be called, &c., Heb. v. 4, 5.  Are all and every one of the multitude of the faithful able to teach, exhort, and convince? are they all sent to preach? are they all called of God? &c.  Nay, hath not Christ laid this task of authoritative preaching only upon his own officers?  Matt, xxviii. 18, 19. 2.  Not with administration of the sacraments; this and preaching are by one and the same commission given to officers only, Matt, xxviii. 18-20; 1 Cor. xi. 23. 3.  Nor to ordain presbyters, or other officers.  They may choose; but extraordinary officers, or the presbytery of ordinary officers, ordain.  Acts vi. 3, 5, 6:  “Look ye out men—­whom we may appoint.”  Compare also Acts xiv. 23; 1 Tim. iv. 14, and v. 22; Tit. iii. 5.  So that the people’s bare election and approbation is no sufficient Scripture ordination of officers.  Nor is there one often thousand among the people that is in all points able to try and judge of the sufficiency of preaching presbyters, for tongues, arts, and soundness of judgment in divinity.  Nor is the power of jurisdiction in public admonition, excommunication, and absolution, &c., allowed to the multitude.  For all and every one of the multitude of the faithful, 1.  Never had any such power given to them from Christ; this key as well as the key of knowledge being given to the officers of the Church only, Matt. xvi. 19, and xviii. 18-20. Tell the church, there, must needs be meant of the ruling church only.[38] 2 Cor. viii. 10; John xx. 21-23. 2.  Never acted or executed any such power, that we can find in Scripture.  As for that which is primarily urged of the church of Corinth, that the whole church did excommunicate the incestuous person, 1 Cor. v. 4, &c., many things may be answered to evince the contrary. 1st, The whole multitude could not do it; for children could not judge, and women must not speak in the Church. 2d, It is not said, Sufficient to such an one is the rebuke inflicted of all; but of many, 2 Cor. ii. 6, viz. of the presbytery, which consisted of many officers. 3d, The church of Corinth, wherein this censure was inflicted, was not a congregational,