A42758:17
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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It is not to be expected, but this form of Church government, shall still be disliked by some (whose dislike shall notwithstanding the more commend it to all pious minds) I mean by profane men, who escape not without censure under Presbyteries, and Synods, as they did under the Prelacy; by heretics, who cannot find favour ⟨image 5⟩with a National Synod of many learned and godly▪ men, as they did with a few Popish Prelates: by Machiavellians also, who do foresee that Presbyterial Synodical government, being conformed not to the Lesbian rule of humane authority, but to the inflexible rule of Divine Institution, will not admit of any Innovations in Religion,1 be they never so conducible to political intentions.
It is not to be expected, but this forme of Church government, shall still be disliked by some (whose dislike shall notwithstanding the more commend it to all pious minds) I mean by prophane men, who escape not without censure under Presbyteries, and Synods, as they did under the Prelacie; by hereticks, who cannot finde favour ⟨image 5⟩with a Nationall Synod of many learned and godly▪ men, as they did with a few Popish Prelats: by Matchavellians also, who do foresee that Presbyteriall Synodicall government, being conformed not to the Lesbian rule of humane authority, but to the inflexible rule of Divine Institution, will not admit of any Innovations in Religion,1 be they never so conduceable to politicall intentions.