A42758:54
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
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CHAP. IV. Of the authority of Sy••ds provincial, and National.
CHAP. IV. Of the authority of Sy••ds provinciall, and Nationall.
That the power of Jurisdiction in the Synod, differeth from the power of jurisdiction in the Presbytery. The power of Jurisdiction in Synods is three-fold, dogmatic, diataktick, and critic; Whether the decrees of a Synod may be pressed upon such as profess scruple of conscience there anent.
THat the power of Jurisdiction in the Synod, differeth from the power of jurisdiction in the Presbyterie. The power of Jurisdiction in Synods is three-fold, dogmatick, diataktick, and critick; Whether the decrees of a Synod may be pressed upon such as professe scruple of conscience there anent.
CHAP. V. The first argument for the authority of Synods, and the subordination of Presbyteries ••erto, taken from the light of nature.
That the Church is a certain kind of Republic, and in things which are common to her with other societies, is guided by the same light of nature which guideth them, Of this kind are her assemblies.