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A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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.
The Contents.
CAP. I. That the Ministry is a perpetual Ordinance in the Church, and that Ministers are to be received as the Ambassadors of Christ, now as well as in the Primitive times. pag. 1. An Erastian lately published the Negative, which also the Sect of the Seekers hold. pag. 1. The Affirmative is proven from Scripture by eight Arguments. pag. 2. 3. Three Objections answered. pag. 4, 5, 6. How Believers are an holy Priest-hood. Ibid Its proved against that Erastian, that the ordinary Ministry have an Embassy▪ from Christ, as well as the Apostles had. pag. 7.
CAP. I. THat the Ministery is a perpetuall Ordinance in the Church, and that Ministers are to be received as the Ambassadours of Christ, now as well as in the Primitive times. pag. 1. An Erastian lately published the Negative, which also the Sect of the Seekers hold. pag. 1. The Affirmative is proven from Scripture by eight Arguments. pag. 2. 3. Three Objections answered. pag. 4, 5, 6. How Believers are an holy Priest-hood. Ibid Its proved against that Erastian, that the ordinary Ministry have an Embassy▪ from Christ, as well as the Apostles had. pag. 7.
CAP. II. Of the Election of Pastors with the Congregations consent. pag. 8.. The question is stated. ibid. The Affirmative is proven from Scripture by three Arguments pag. 9, 10, 11, 12. 13. 14, 15. [Greek or Hebrew] Acts 14▪ 23. is exponed. ibid. Its proven also from Antiquity. pag. 16, 17. Its also the judgement of sound Protestant Churches and writers. pag. 18, 19, 20, 21. Its confirmed by five reasons, pag. 21. 22. The confession of Adversaries proves it. pag. 23. Seven Objections answered, pag. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. How we differ from the Independents in this point. pag. 24. 25. What is due to the People, and what to the Magistrate, and what to the Eldership in this point. ibid. The Elderships votes, and the Peoples consent or dissent are free, and