Of Synodical Assemblies.

The scripture doth hold out another sort of assemblies for the government of the church, beside classical and congregational, all which we call Synodical.[k]

Pastors and teachers, and other church-governors, (as also other fit persons, when it shall be deemed expedient,) are members of those assemblies which we call Synodical, where they have a lawful calling thereunto.

Synodical assemblies may lawfully be of several sorts, as provincial, national, and oecumenical.

It is lawful, and agreeable to the word of God, that there be a subordination of congregational, classical, provincial, and national assemblies, for the government of the church.

[k] Acts 15:2,6,22,23.