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

Name: An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of…
Author: George Gillespie

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.

George Gillespie 1613–1648Edinburgh: printed for James Bryson, 1641Edinburgh: printed for Iames Bryson, 1641

[16], 212 [i.e. 214] p., [1], 40 p. · 57k words · Wing G745 · ESTC R16325

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Contents › Part 1 › Contents of chapter 3: The first argument for Ruling-Elders taken from the Jewish-Church.Contents › Part 1 › Contents of chapter 3: The first argument for Ruling-Elders taken from the Iewish-Church.

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CHAP. III. The first argument for Ruling-Elders taken from the Jewish-Church.

CHAP. III. The first argument for Ruling-Elders taken from the Iewish-Church.

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That we ought to follow the Jewish Church in such things as they had not for any special reason proper to them, but as they were an Ecclesiastical Republic. That the Elders among the Jews did sit among the Priests and voice in their Ecclesiastical Courts, according to Baravias own confession, but were not their• will Magistrates as he allegeth. Bilsons objections answered.

THat we ought to follow the Jewish Church in such things as they had not for any speciall reason proper to them, but as they were an Ecclesiasticall Republike. That the Elders among the Jews did sit among the Priests and voice in their Ecclesiasticall Courts, according to Baravias own confession, but were not their• will Magistrates as he alleadgeth. Bilsons objections answered.

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CHAP. IV. The second Argument taken from Math. 18.17.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

George Gillespie 1613–1648

Place

Edinburgh

Bookseller

James BrysonIames Bryson

Year

1641

Size

[16], 212 [i.e. 214] p., [1], 40 p.

Words

56,679

Catalogue

Wing G745 · ESTC R16325

Text

EEBO-TCP A42758

Passages

369

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Title page

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

CHAP. III. The first argument for Ruling-Elders taken from the Jewish-Church.

CHAP. III. The first argument for Ruling-Elders taken from the Iewish-Church.

CHAP. IV. The second Argument taken from Math. 18.17.

CHAP. V. The third Argument taken from Rom. 12.8.

CHAP. VI. The fourth Argument taken from 1 Cor. 12.28.

CHAP. VII. The fi•st Argument taken from 1 Tim. 5.17.

CHAP. VIII. The testimony of Ambrose for Ruling-Elders vindicated.

CHAP. IX. Other Testimonies of Antiquity.

CHAP. IX. Other Testimonies of Antiquitie.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. III. The first argument for Ruling-Elders taken from the Jewish-Church.

CHAP. III. The first argument for Ruling-Elders taken from the Iewish-Church.

CHAP. IV. The second Argument taken from Math. 18.17.

CHAP. V. The third Argument taken from Rom. 12.8.

CHAP. VI. The fourth Argument taken from 1 Cor. 12.28.

CHAP. VII. The fi•st Argument taken from 1 Tim. 5.17.

CHAP. VIII. The testimony of Ambrose for Ruling-Elders vindicated.

CHAP. IX. Other Testimonies of Antiquity.

CHAP. IX. Other Testimonies of Antiquitie.

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