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…

The Question is not, whether the power of Ecclesiastical government, or jurisdiction belong to the people, or body of the Church▪ (for the Tenets of Brownists and Anabaptists, concerning popular government, we utterly abhor) nor whether the whole collective body of the Church ought to be assembled, and their voi es severally asked in Elections, for all may consent when none vote in Elections, but the representative body of the Church, nor whether the consent of the people to the admission of a Pastor is to be sought and wished for, it being generally acknowledged by all, and denied by none, that it is better to enter with the peoples consent then against it: Nor whether liberty ought to be granted to the whole congregation, or any member thereof to object against the mans life or doctrine, or against his qualification for such a particular charge, for it is certain that not only the congregation, but others who know any just impediment against his admission, have place to object the same, nor whether the churches liberty of consent be inconsistent with, or destructive unto the Presbyteries power of examination and ordination, for these may stand together: but the question is whether it be necessarily required to the right vocation of a Pastor, that he be freely elected by the votes of the Eldership, and with the consent (tacit or expressed)