A42758:159
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.
In the acts of the 5. Council of Toledo according to the late editions,1 we read that Cinthila (whom others call Chintillanus) came into that Councell, cum optimatibus & Senioribus palatii sui. But Lorinus hath found in some ancient copy,2 Cum optimatibus & Senioribus populi sui, with the Nobles and the Elders of his people. I would know who were these Elders of the people distinguished from the Nobles.
In the acts of the 5. Councell of Toledo according to the late editions,1 we read that Cinthila (whom others call Chintillanus) came into that Councell, cum optimatibus & Senioribus palatii sui. But Lorinus hath found in some ancient copy,2 Cum optimatibus & Senioribus populi sui, with the Nobles and the Elders of his people. I would know who were these Elders of the people distinguished from the Nobles.
- 1C. 1.
- 2In Act. 4.5.
1These things may suffice from antiquity to give some evidence that the office of ruling Elders is not Calvins new fangled devise at Geneva, as our adversaries are pleased to call it: but for further confirmation of this point, Voetius disp. 2. de Senio. and before him Justellus in annot. & notis in cod. Can. Eccles. Afric. Can. 100. hath observed sundry other pregnant testimonies from antiquity for ruling Elders, especially out of these notable records Gesta pu•gationis Caeciliani & Faelicis, to be seen in the Anna's of Baronius, An. 103. and in Albaspinaeus his edition of Optatus. These testimonies I have here set down in the Margin.