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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A POST-SCRIPT, In answer to a Treatise very lately published, which is entitled, The Presbyterial Government examined.
A POST-SCRIPT, In answer to a Treatise very lately published, which is intituled, The Presbyteriall Governement examined.
When the Printer had done all except two sheets of my former Treatise, there came to my hands a piece against Presbyterial Government, which promiseth much, but performeth little. Though my time be very short, yet I trust to make an answer to it, as full as it deserveth.
WHen the Printer had done all except two sheets of my former Treatise, there came to my hands a peece against Presbyteriall Governement, which promiseth much, but performeth little. Though my time be very short, yet I trust to make an answer to it, as full as it deserveth.
It hath a magisterial and high sounding title, undertaking the examination of Presbyterial Government. But Presbyterial Government secretly smileth, because ⟨p. 2⟩while she was ready to say much more for her self, he did not put her to to it, lest himself should have been put ad metam non probandi. But he particularizeth himself, and telleth us he hath unfolded the weakness of our grounds, and disproved our pretended proofs. The truth is, that the best of them & the most of them he hath not touched. He addeth that he hath proved out of the Word of God the liberty of the people in choosing their own officers. This may be added •aute, but caste, I am sure it is not. He would make the world believe that Presbyterians are against the peoples election of their officers, which is a calumny. He saith, he hath annexed certain arguments, proving Presbyterial Government to be contrary to the pattern which Christ hath left in the New Testament. These arguments shall be answered with no great difficulty. In this place I shall only say a word of them in general. The man hath a notable faculty of proving that wherein the Presbyterians do agree with him, and passing that wherein they disagree from him. Many humane testimonies and citations of writers he mustereth together, to make a simple reader believe that many are of his judgemen But I find none of them all