A42758:45
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. XIIII. Of the Ordination of ruling-Elders. Of the continuance of their Office, and of their maintenance.
That the want of the Imposition of hands in Ordination, the want of maintenance, and the not continuing ⟨image 8⟩always in the exercise of the Office, cannot be prejudicial to the Office it self of Ruling-Elders.
THat the want of the Imposition of hands in Ordination, the want of maintainance, and the not continuing ⟨image 8⟩alwaies in the •xercise of the Office, cannot be prejudiciall to the Office it selfe of Ruling-Elders.