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

Now in this drove of arguments,¹ the drover hath set some like the weak of the flock to follow up behind. The first two are blind, and see not where they are going: for it maketh nothing against us, either that the Eldership of one congregation, hath not authority over the Eldership of another congregation, or that a minister should not undertake the care of more Churches then one.

Now in this drove of arguments,¹ the drover hath set some like the weake of the flock to follow up behind. The first two are blind, and see not where they are going: for it maketh nothing against us, either that the Eldership of one congregation, hath not authority over the Eldership of another congregation, or that a minister should not undertake the care of more Churches then one.

1. 1Pag. 35.

His third,¹ that presbyterial power is never mentioned in the Scripture, is a begging of the thing in question, & is answered before; yet I must put him again in mind of Parker, who speaking of churches saith: Legitur in Scripturis de conjunct a earū auct oritate, quando in Synodis congregantur. We read in their Scriptures of their joint authority, when they are gathered together into Synods. But there is a speech of Zuinglius against representative Churches, which he may not omit. Zuing•ius doth indeed justly ask of the antichristian prelates, who had given them ⟨p. 38⟩the name of a representative Church, & who had given them power to make Canons &c. yet he addeth,²