A42758:48
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
Contents › Part 2 › Contents of chapter 1: Of Popular government in the Church.
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CHAP. I. Of Popular government in the Church.
That this question is necessary to be cl••red, before the question of the authority of Assemblies. That Jurisdiction ought not to be […] by all the Members of a Congregation, proved by […] reasons. Objections answered. The controversy […].
THat this question is necessary to be cl••red, before the question of the authority of Assemblies. That Jurisdiction ought not to be 〈…〉 by all the Members of a Congrega•ion, proved by 〈…〉 reasons. Objections answered. The controversie 〈…〉.
CHAP. II. Of the independency of the Elderships of particular Congregations.
CHAP. II. Of the independencie of the Elderships of particular Congregations.
Dr. Fields question, wh•ther the power of Jurisdiction belongeth to the Eldership of every Congregation, or to a common Presbytery made up out of many Congregations, answered by an eigfold distinction. A threefold conformity of those Parishionall Elderships to the primitive pattern.