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

Your first eight and ten arguments are in like manner coincident.¹ The first you frame thus. Such actions the Church may lawfully do wherein no law of God is broken. But there is no law of God broken, when particular Churches do in and among themselves exercise all Gods ordinances. Ergo. The eight thus. Whatsoever government ⟨p. 33⟩cannot be found commanded in the written Word o• God, ought not to have any place in the Church of God. But the Government of Presbyteries and Synods over many particular congregations cannot be found commanded,² &c. The tenth thus. It is a sin against God to add any thing to that form and manner of ordering Churches which Christ hath set forth in the new Testament. But to subject particular congregations under any other Ecclesiastical authority out of themselves, is to add, &c.

Your first eight and tenne arguments are in like manner coincident.¹ The first you frame thus. Such actions the Church may lawfully do wherein no law of God is broken. But there is no law of God broken, when particular Churches do in and among themselves exercise all Gods ordinances. Ergo. The eight thus. Whatsoever governement ⟨p. 33⟩cannot be found commanded in the written Word o• God, ought not to have any place in the Church of God. But the Government of Presbyteries and Synods over many particular congregations cannot be found commanded,² &c. The tenth thus. It is a sinne against God to adde any thing to that forme and manner of ordering Churches which Christ hath set forth in the new Testament. But to subject particular congregations under any other Ecclesiasticall authority out of themselves, is to adde, &c.

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