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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
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Fourthly, it is objected, that what concerneth all ought to be done with the consent of all. Answ. We hold the same, but the consent of all is one thing, the exercise of jurisdiction by all, another thing. Ainsworth in one of his Epistles to Paget, condemneth the Elderships sitting and judging matters apart from the Congregation.1 Paget answereth, that though the Eldership sit apart to judge, yet before any sentence be given for the cutting off of any offender, or for any other thing which concerneth all, matters are first propounded to the whole Church, and their prayers and consent required.
Fourthly, it is objected, that what concerneth all ought to be done with the consent of all. Answ. Wee hold the same, but the consent of all is one thing, the exercise of jurisdiction by all, another thing. Ainsworth in one of his Epistles to Paget, condemneth the Elderships sitting and judging matters apart from the Congregation.1 Paget answereth, that though the Eldership sit apart to judge, yet before any sentence be given for the cutting off of any offender, or for any other thing which concerneth all, matters are first propounded to the whole Church, and their prayers and consent required.
- 1Arron, pag. 23.Arrone, pag. 23.
And surely this form of proceeding shineth forth to us in that Apostolical Synod at Jerusalem, for the Apostles and Elders, met, sate, and voiced apart from the whole Church, as Calvin noteth from Act. 15, 6. and they alone judged and decreed Act. 16.4. In the mean while were matters made known to the whole Church, and done with the consent of all,