Annotatio V §.I: Limits opposite Obstacles — by right (jure), not merely de facto
§. I. Limits stand opposite Obstacles: limits are understood of right, obstacles of fact.
An unjust boundary acts like an obstacle; a just obstacle acts like a limit.
So here the limits of church consociation are not whatever happens to obtain in practice, but what by divine and church right can and ought to be set.
Latin
§. I.
Limites, Obicibus oppositi, intelliguntur de Jure, uti Obices de facto. Quemadmodum limes injustus, obicis, ita obex justus, limitis naturam induit. Hinc limites Consociationis Ecclesiasticae hoc loco intelliguntur, non quales actu & de facto dantur, sed quales jure, & quidem Divinô ac Ecclesiastico, dari & possent, & debent.