A42758:164
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
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THE office of Ruling Elders is not only maintained by […] ▪ Cartwright, A••rs•, Bucer••, and others whom our opposites will call partial Writers, let him who pleaseth read the commentaries of Martyr, […], Gualther, Hemmingius, ⟨p. 74⟩Piscator, Paraus upon Rom. 12.8. 1 Cor. 12.28. Aretius on Act. 14.23. Zepper. de Polit. Eccles. l. 3. c. 1. & 12. Bullinger on 1 Tim. 5.17. Arcul•rius on Act. 14.23. Catal. Test▪ verit. col 103. Os•and. cent 1 l. 4. c. 11. Chemn•t exam part 2. p•g 2•8 Gerard. lo•. Theol. tom. 6 p•g. 363 •64. Muscul. loc. com. de Eccles. c. 5 Bucan. loc come. •oc 42. Suetanus de Discipl. Eccles. part. 4 c. 3. Polanus Synt. l. 7. c 11. Zanchius in 4 praecep col. 727. Junius animad. in Bell•r cont 5. l 1. c 2 Danaeus de Polit. Christ. l. 6 p 452. Alsted. Theol. cas. pag. 518.520. Soping•us ad bonam fidem Sibrandi▪ pag. 253. &c. The Professors of Leiden, Synt. purr. Theol. Disp. 42. and sundry others, whose testimonies I omit for brevities cause, it is enough to note the places. The Author of the Assertion for true and Christian Church policy, pag. 196.197. citeth for ruling Elders, the testimony the Commissioners of King Edward the sixth, authorised to compile a book for the reformation of Laws Ecclesiastical; among whom were the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of Ely. They say, Let the Minister going apart with some of the Elders, take counsel, &c. Voetus citeth to the same purpose, Marlorat, Hyperius, Fulke, Whittaker, Fenner, Bunnius, Willet, Sadeel, Lubbertus, Trelcatius