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Besides these occasional Synods or Councils, there are not Instituted by CHRIST any Stated Synods in a fixed Combination of Churches, or their Officers in Lesser or Greater Assemblies, nor are there any Synods appointed by CHRIST in a way of Subordination to one another. There were in this Savoy Convention the Messengers of an hundred and twenty…
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