The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the…

1. Concl. There is a Church of believers sometime before there be a ministerial Church. 1. Because a company of believers is a mystical Church, for which Christ died, Eph. 5. 25. And such there may be before there be a settled Ministry. As there is a house, before there be a Candlestick, because conversion may be by private means, as by reading and conference; yea a woman hath carried the Gospel to a Land, before there was a Ministry in it. 2. Adam was first and Eve by order of •ature a Church created of God, before there was a Ministry; So Adams Ministry is founded upon a nature created according to Gods Image.

1. Concl. There is a Church of believers sometime before there be a ministeriall Church. 1. Because a company of believers is a mysticall Church, for which Christ died, Eph. 5. 25. And such there may be before there be a setled Ministery. As there is a house, before there be a Candlestick, because conversion may be by private meanes, as by reading and conference; yea a woman hath carried the Gospell to a Land, before there was a Ministery in it. 2. Adam was first and Evah by order of •ature a Church created of God, before there was a Ministery; So Adams Ministery is founded upon a nature created according to Gods Image.

2. Concl. A public ordinary Ministry is before a Church of believers. Eph. 4. 11. Pastors, Teachers, and a Ministry, are given ⟨p. 176⟩to the inbringing and gathering of the Church; [Greek or Hebrew]. That is, edifying, and not only for confirming, but for the converting of the Body of Christ. Nor is Robinson ^a