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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
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CHAP. VII. The third argument taken from the Jewish Church.
CHAP. VII. The third argument taken from the Iewish Church.
That there were among the Jews a• least two Ecclesiastical Courts, the Synagogue, and the Sanhedrin. That the power of the Synagogical consistory was not civill, but spiritual, proved against Sutliffe. That the Jews had a supreme Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin, distinct from the civill Sanhedrin, proved against the same Sutliffe, both from the institution thereof, Deu•. 17. and from the restitution, ⟨image 9⟩2 Chron. 19. and from the practice, Jer. 26. The consequence of our argument, proved against such as deny it. That we ought to follow the Jewish Church in those things which it had, not as it was Jewish, but under the common respect and account of a political Church.
THat there were among the Jews a• least two Ecclesiasticall Courts, the Synagogue, and the Sanedrim. That the power of the Synagogical con•istory was not civill, but spirituall, proved against Sutliffe. That the Jews had a supream Ecclesiasticall Sanedrim, distinct from the civill Sanedrim, proved against the same Sutliffe, both from the institution therof, Deu. 17. and from the restitution,