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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.
1Somewhat he demurreth upon Act. 15. for the vindication of which place, I refer my reader to the second part of the former Treatise, Chap. 1. & 8. Neither shall I stay to examine, by what Method either this discourse or the other about elections, falleth into the proof of his proposition, concerning that part of the Elders office, which standeth in the censuring of offenders.
1Somewhat he demurreth upon Act. 15. for the vindication of which place, I refer my reader to the second part of the former Treatise, Chap. 1. & 8. Neither shall I stay to examine, by what Method either this discourse or the other about elections, falleth into the proofe of his proposition, concerning that part of the Elders office, which standeth in the censuring of offenders.
- 1Pag. 17.18.
1He falleth at last into his own channel, concluding it to be a thing most equal, that the whole Church, should clearly ⟨p. 13⟩and undoubtedly take knowledge of the contumacy of the person, that is to be excommunicated, & of the crime for which, and this we also say with him.
1He falleth at last into his owne channell, concluding it to bee a thing most equall, that the whole Church, should clearely ⟨p. 13⟩and undoubtedly take knowledge of the contumacy of the person, that is to bee excommunicated, & of the crime for which, and this we also say with him.