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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 11: Objections made against the authority of Synods, answered.
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CHAP. XI. Objections made against the authority of Synods, answered.
They who dislike the subordination of particular congregations unto higher Ecclesiastical Courts, object against us,1 our Saviours precept, Tell the Church. Wheresoever we read in Scripture of a visible political Church, and not of the invisible Catholic Church, it is ever meant, say they, of a particular congregation, used to assemble in one place for the exercise of Gods public worship; & when the Scripture speaketh of a whole Province or Nation, the plural number is used, as the Churches of Galatia, the Churches of Macedonia, the Churches of Asia, &c. Wherefore our Saviour in those words did deliver the power of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, neither to Classical Presbyteries, nor to Synods, but to particular congregations only.
THey who dislike the subordination of particular congregations unto higher Ecclesiasticall Courts, object against us,1 our Saviours precept, Tell the Church. Wheresoever wee read in Scripture of a visible politicall Church, and not of the invisible Catholike Church, it is ever meant, say they, of a particular congregation, used to assemble in one place for the exercise of Gods publike worship; & when the Scripture speaketh of a whole Province or Nation, the plurall number is used, as the Churches of Galatia, the Churches of Macedonia, the Churches of Asia, &c. Wherefore our Saviour in those words did deliver the power of Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction, neither to Classicall Presbyteries, nor to Synods, but to particular congregations only.