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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.
CHAP. XI. Dr. Fields five arguments against ruling-Elders, answered.
His first reason, that no foot-step of Ruling-Elders for many hundred years could be found in any Christian Church, answered five ways. Footsteps of Ruling-Elders in the Church of England. His second reason answered. That we ought to judge of the Officers of the Church, not from 1 Tim. 3. only, but from that and other places compared together. His third reason answered by the c•rtain bounds of the power of Ruling-Elders. His fourth reason answered by the distinction of the Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin of the Jews, from their civill Sanhedrin. His last reason concerning the names holdeth not.
HIs first reason, that no foot-step of Ruling-Elders for many hundreth years could be found in any Christian Church, answered five waies. Footsteps of Ruling-Elders in the Church of England. His second reason answered. That we ought to judge of the Officers of the Church, not from 1 Tim. 3. only, but from that and other places compared together. His third reason answered by the c•rtain bounds of the power of Ruling-Elders. His fourth reason answered by the distinction of the Ecclesiastica•l Sanedrim of the Iewes, from their civill Sanedrim. His last reason concerning the names holdeth not.