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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.
CHAP. XIII. Whether Ruling Elders have the power of decisive voices, when they sit in Presbyteries and Synods.
CHAP. XIII. Whether Ruling Elders have the power of decisive voyces, when they sit in Prebyteries and Synods.
There are sundry questions propounded by D. Field and other adversaries of Ruling Elders, whereinto they think we are not able to satisfy them, as 1. Whether Ruling Elders ought to have decisive voices, even in questions of Faith and Doctrine, and in the trial and approbation of Ministers? 2. Whether these Elders must be in every Congregation with power of ordination, deprivation, suspension, excommunication, and absolution, or whether this power be only in Ministers and Elders of divers Churches concurring? 3. If they be Ecclesiastical persons, where is their ordination? 4. Whether these […] be perpetual or annual, and but for a certain time?
THere are sundry questions propounded by D. Field and other adversaries of Ruling Elders, whereinto they thinke wee are not able to satisfie them, as 1. Whether Ruling Elders ought to have decisive voyces, even in questions of Faith and Doctrine, and in the tryall and approbation of Ministers? 2. Whether these Elders must be in every Congregation with power of ordination, deprivation, suspension, excommunication, and absolution, or whether this power bee onely in Ministers and Elders of divers Churches concurring? 3. Jf they be Ecclesiasticall persons, where is their ordination? 4. Whether these 〈…〉 be perpetuall or annuall, and but for a certaine time?