enumerated. 2.  The denomination of these officers, governments, evidenceth that they are governing officers, vested with rule in the Church.  This word (as hath been noted in chap.  II.) is a metaphor from pilots or shipmasters governing of their ships by their compass, helm, &c., James iii. 4, (who is hence called governor, viz. of the ship, Acts xxvii. 11; Rev. xviii. 17,) and it notes such officers as sit at the stern of the vessel of the Church, to govern and guide it in spirituals according to the will and mind of Christ:  governments—­the abstract is put for governors, the concrete:  this name of governments hath engraven upon it an evident character of power for governing.  But this will be easily granted by all.  All the doubt will be, whom the apostle intended by these governments?  Thus conceive, negatively, these cannot be meant, viz. not governors in general, for, besides that a general exists not but in the particular kinds or individuals thereof, a member of a body in general exists not but in this or that particular member, eye, hand, foot, &c.:  besides this, it is evident that Christ hath not only in general appointed governors in his Church, and left particulars to the church or magistrate’s determination, but hath himself descended to the particular determination of the several kinds of officers which he will have in his Church; compare these places together, Eph. iv. 7, 11, 12; 1 Cor. xii. 28; Rom. xii. 7, 8:  though in the ordinance of magistracy God hath only settled the general, but for the particular kinds of it, whether it should be monarchical, &c., that is left to the prudence of the several commonwealths to determine what is fittest for themselves. (See Part 2, chap.  IX.) 2.  Not masters of families:  for all families are not in the Church, pagan families are without.  No family as a family is either a church or any part of a church, (in the notion that church is here spoken of;) and though masters of families be governors in their own houses, yet their power is not ecclesiastical but economical or domestical, common to heathens as well as Christians.  Not the political magistrate,[54] for the reasons hinted, (Part 1, chap.  I.; see also Part 2, chap.  IX.,) and for divers other arguments that might be propounded. 4.  Not the prelatical bishops, pretending to be an order above preaching presbyters, and to have the reins of all church government in their hands only; for, in Scripture language, bishop and presbyter are all one order, (these words being only names of the same officer;) this is evident by comparing Tit. i. 5, with ver. 7.  Hereunto also the judgment of antiquity evidently subscribeth, accounting a bishop and a presbyter to be one and the same officer in the church; as appears particularly in Ambrose, Theodoret, Hierom, and others.  Now, if there be no such order as prelatical bishops, consequently they cannot be governments in the church. 5.  Not the same with helps, as the former