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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
Part 2 › Chapter 2: Of the independencies of the Elderships of particular Congregations.
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6. Let us put a difference betwixt the subordination of one Congregation to another, or of ore Eldership to another, and the subordination of any Congregation, and of ⟨p. 127⟩the Eldership thereof to a superior, Presbytery or Synod made out of many Congregations, as one provincial Synod is not subject to another Provincial Synod, yet all the Provincial Synods in the Nation are subject […] the National Synod, so it is also with the ordinary consistories, one particular Eldership is not subject to another, yet all the particular Elderships within the bounds of the common Presbytery are subject to the same. So that there is a vast difference betwixt this subordination which we maintain, and the subordination of all the Parishes in a Diocese to the Prelate and his Cathedral. Where Douname doth object that all the Parishes of Geneva are Hierarchically subject to the Presbytery in the city, Parker denieth this, nisi quis &c. unlesse saith he,1 peradventure one may be subject to himself, for the Parishes, each for their own part, and that alihe, are this same Presbytery. And after, Consistorium &c. for the Consistory of the Cathedral Church is an external meeting, divers distinct and separate from the rural Churches, which are no part thereof, this cannot be said of the Presbytery of Geneva.
6. Let us put a difference betwixt the subordination of one Congregation to another, or of ore Eldership to another, and the subordination of any Congregation, and of ⟨p. 127⟩the Eldership thereof to a superior, Presbytery or Synod made out of many Congregations, as one provinciall Synod is not subject to another Provinciall Synod, yet all the Provinciall Synods in the Nation are subje•t 〈…〉 the Nationall Synod, so it is also with the ordinary consistories, one particular Eldership is not subject to another, yet all the particular Elderships within the bounds of the common Presbytery are subject to the same. So that there is a vast difference betwixt this subordination which we maintaine, and the subordination of all the Parishes in a Diocesse to the Praelate and his Cathedrall. Where Douname doth object that all the Parishes of Geneva are Hierarchically subject to the Presbytery in the city, Parker denieth this, nisi quis &c. vnlesse saith he,