A42758:366
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.
In the fourth place he objecteth,1 that whosoever shall deny their assertion, must hold two distinct forms of Church government to be lawful, one where particular congregations do in & of themselves exercise all Gods ordinances;2 the other where they stand under another ecclesiastical authority out of themselves. I answer it is most lawful for particular congregations in and of themselves to exercise all Gods ordinances, according to the distinctions & rules above mentioned: but this is not repugnant to their standing, under the authority of presbyteries & Synods, for which let us again hear a tender friend of congregations. Major quidem potestas est Synodi quam unius alicujus Ecclesiae primea, 3& parochialis; But go we along.
In the fourth place he objecteth,1 that whosoever shall deny their assertion, must hold two distinct formes of Church government to be lawfull, one where particular congregations do in & of themselves exercise all Gods ordinances;2 the other where they stand under another ecclesiasticall authority out of themselves. I answer it is most lawfull for particular congregations in and of themselves to exercise all Gods ordinances, according to the distinctions & rules above mentioned: but this is not repugnant to their standing, under the authority of presbyteries & Synods, for which let us againe heare a tender friend of congregations. Major quidem potestas est Synodi quam unius alicujus Ecclesiae primea, 3& parochialis; But goe we along.
- 1Pag. 36.
- 2Sup••. cap. 2.
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