A42758:151
An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of…
An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of ruling-elders and of the authority of presbyteries and synods with a postscript in answer to a treatise lately published against presbyterial government.An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of ruling-elders and of the authority of presbyteries and synods with a postscript in answer to a treatise lately published against presbyteriall government.
Edinburgh: printed for James Bryson, 1641Edinburgh: printed for Iames Bryson, 1641
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Epiphanius writing to John, Bishop of Jerusalem, concerning the tearing of a veil which he had seen in the Church of a village called Anablatha, with the image of Christ, or some Saint, upon it, and concerning another veil which he had sent for it, entreateth him to give order to the Elders of that place to receive the veil from the bearer. It is not to be thought there were many preaching Elders in a small village, he speaketh in the plurall, Precor ut jubeas Presbyteros ejusdem loci &c.
Epiphanius writing to Iohn, Bishop of Ierusalem, concerning the tearing of a vaile which hee had seene in the Church of a village called Anablatha, with the image of Christ, or some Saint, upon it, and concerning another vaile which he had sent for it, intreateth him to give order to the Elders of that place to receive the vaile from the bearer. It is not to bee thought there were many preaching Elders in a small village, hee speaketh in the plurall, Precor ut jubeas Presbyteros ejusdem loci &c.
Basilius M•gnus in his Commentary upon Isa. 3.2. where the Lord threateneth to take away from Israel the Ancient, or the Elder, showeth from Numb. 11.16. how warily such Elders were to be chosen, and that their gifts, not their age, made them Elders, he proveth from Dan. 13.50. (which is the history of Susanna) where the Jewish Elders at Babylon say to young Daniel, Come sit down among us, and show it us, seeing God hath given thee the honour of an Elder. Then he addeth, Ad hunc, &c. After this m•nner sometimes it happeneth, that youths are found in honour to be preferred to these Elders who slothfully and ⟨p. 66⟩negligently lead their life. These Elders then among the Jews were falsely so c•lled: for God took away as the man of war and the Prophet, so the Elder from the people of the Jews. Therefore let the Church pray, that the Elder (worthy to be so called, be not taken away from her self. The whole tenor of his discourse importeth, that the Christian Churches had such Elders as we read to have been in the Jewish Church, whereof Daniel was one. And of them he seemed to mean a little before, Habet &c. The Church also hath Judges, who can agree brother and brother.