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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
Contents › Part 1 › Contents of chapter 1: Of the words Elder, Lay-Elder, Ruling-Elder.
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. I. Of the words Elder, Lay-Elder, Ruling-Elder.
Four significations of the word Elder in Scripture. Of the nickname of Lay-Elders. That the Popish distinction of the Clergy, and the Laity ought to be banished. Of the name of Ruling-Elders, and the reason thereof.
FOure significations of the word Elder in Scripture. Of the nickname of Lay-Elders. That the Popish distinction of the Clergie, and the Laity ought to be banished. Of the name of Ruling-Elders, and the reason thereof.
CHAP. II. Of the function of Ruling-Elders, and what s•re of officers they be.
OF the distinction of Pastors, Doctors, Elders, and Deacons. Of the behaviour and conversation of Ruling-Elders. Of the distinction of the power of Order and of jurisdiction. That the Ruling-Elder his power of jurisdiction, is to sit and voice in all the Consistories and Assemblies of the Church. That his power of order, is to do by way of authority those duties of edification, which every Christian is bound to do by way of charity.
OF the distinction of Pastors, Doctors, Elders, and Deacons. Of the behaviour and conuersation of Ruling-Elders. Of the distinction of the power of Order and of jurisdiction. That the Ruling-Elder his power of jurisdiction, is to sit and voice in all the Consistories and Assemblies of the Church. That his power of order, is to do by way of authority those duties of edification, which every Christian is bound to do by way of charity.