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    to receive the offerings of ye church, gifts given to

    ye church, & to keepe ye Treasury of ye church, &

    therewth to serve the Tables(e) wch ye church is to

    pvide for; as, ye Lords Table, the Table of the

    ministers, and of such as are in necessity; to whom

    they are to distribute(f) in simplicity.  (a) Act.6.2, &c.

    1 Tim.3.8.  phil.1.1.  (b) 1 Cor. 12.28.  (c) 1 Tim.3.8,9. (d)

    1 Tim.3.10.  (e) Act.6.2,3.  (f) Rom.12.8.

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      Their office therefore being limited unto the

    care of the temporall good things of ye church,

    it extendeth not unto the attendance upon, and

    administration of ye spirtt things thereof, as ye

    dispensation of ye word, and sacraments or ye like.

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      The ordinance of ye Apostle, and practice of

    ye churches 1 Cor.16.1,2, commends ye Lords day, as

    a fit tyme for ye Contribution to ye Saints.

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      The Instituting of all these officers in ye church

    is the worke of god himselfe(a), of ye Lord Jesus

    Cht(b) and of ye Holy Gh:(c). and therefore such

    officers as he hath not appointed are altogeathr

    unlawfull, either to be placed in ye church, or to

    be reteyned therein; and are to be looked at as

    humane creatures, meere Inventions & appointmts

    of man, to the great dishonor of Cht Jesus, ye Lord

    of his house, & King of his church; whether Popes,

    Patriarchs, Cardinalls, Archbps, Lord Bps, Arch-deacons

    officials, Commisaryes & ye like. These & ye rest of

    that Hierarchie & Retinue, not being plants of ye