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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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CHAP. IV. Of the authority of Synods Provincial and National.
CHAP. IV. Of the authority of Synods Provinciall and Nationall.
Touching Synods, I shall first show what their power is, and thereafter give arguments for the same. The power of Jurisdiction which we ascribe unto Synods, is the same in nature and kind with that which belongeth to Presbyteries, but with this difference, that Presbyteries do exercise it in an ordinary way, and in matters proper to the congregations within their circuit. Synods do exercise this power in matters which are common to a whole province, or nation; or if in matters proper to the bounds of one Presbytery, it is in an extraordinary way; that is to say, when either Presbytery hath erred in the managing of their own matters, or when such things are transferred to the Synod from the Presbytery, whether it be by appellation or by reference.
TOuching Synods, I shall first shew what their power is, and thereafter give arguments for the same. The power of Jurisdiction which wee ascribe unto Synods, is the same in nature and kinde with that which belongeth to Presbyteries, but with this difference, that Presbyteries doe exercise it in an ordinary way, and in matters proper to the congregations within their circuit. Synods doe exercise this power in matters which are common to a whole province, or nation; or if in matters proper to the bounds of one Presbytery, it is in an extraordinary way; that is to say, when either Presbytery hath erred in the managing of their owne matters, or when such things are transferred to the Synod from the Presbytery, whether it be by appellation or by reference.