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

Now before I make an end, I must answer yet other two objections which have been lately made.¹ There is one who objecteth that the Assembly of the Apostles, Acts 15. can be no president nor pattern for succeeding ages: First, because the Apostles were inspired with the holy Ghost, which wholly guided them in all matters of the Church; so as in that their determination, they say expressly,² It seemed good to the holy Ghost and to us to lay upon you no greater burden. Now, what Synod in any age after the Apostles could ever say that they were infallibly inspired and assisted by the holy Ghost? Secondly, ⟨p. 208⟩that injunction of the holy Ghost and of the Apostles was but [Greek or Hebrew], for that present time, for the avoiding of offences between Jews and Gentiles. But the like we read not afterward in all the writings of the Apostles.

Now before I make an end, I must answer yet other two objections which have beene lately made.¹ There is one who objecteth that the Assembly of the Apostles, Acts 15. can bee no president nor patterne for succeeding ages: First, because the Apostles were inspired with the holy Ghost, which wholly guided them in all matters of the Church; so as in that their determination, they say expressely,² It seemed good to the holy Ghost and to us to lay upon you no greater burthen. Now, what Synod in any age after the Apostles could ever say that they were infallibly inspired and assisted by the holy Ghost? Secondly, ⟨p. 208⟩that injunction of the holy Ghost and of the Apostles was but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for that present time, for the avoiding of offences betweene Jewes and Gentiles. But the like we read not afterward in all the writings of the Apostles.