An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of…

Quapropter, wherefore saith Junius, the Readers are to be warned whosoever they be that consult the histories of ancient times, that where they read the name Syned•tum, they wisely observe whether the civill Assembly or the Ecclesiastical be meant of, because that name was confused, and indistinct, after the times of Antiochus.

Quapropter, wherefore saith Iunius, the Readers are to be warned whosoever they bee that consult the histories of ancient times, that where they read the name Syned•tum, they wisely observe whether the civill Assembly or the Ecclesiastical be meant of, because that name was confused, and indistinct, after the times of Antiochus.

But notwithstanding that in these latter times all good order had much degenerate and grown to confusion, yet it seemeth to me, that even in the days of our Saviour Christ, the Civill and Ecclesiastical courts remained distinct, let me say my opinion with all mens leave, and under correction of the more learned, that night that our Lord was betrayed, he was led to the Hall of Caiaphas, ⟨p. 86⟩where there was holden an Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin, which asked Jesus of his Disciples, and of his doctrine, received witness against him, and pronounced him guilty of blasphemy, Mat. 27.57. Mark 14.53.55. Joh. 18.19. Nothing I find in this Council why we should think it civill: for as touching the smiting and buffeting of Christ, Mat. 26.67. Luk 22.63. some think it was by the servants of the high Priests and Elders after that they themselves had gone home, & left the Council; howsoever, it was done tumultuously, not judicially, and tumults may fall forth in any Judicatory whether civill or Ecclesiastical As for the sentence which they gave,