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A moderate answer unto Dr. Bastwicks book; called Independency not Gods ordinance. Wherein is…A moderate answer vnto Dr. Bastvvicks book; called Independency not Gods ordinance. Wherein is…
A moderate answer unto Dr. Bastwicks book; called Independency not Gods ordinance. Wherein is declared the manner how some churches in this city were gathered, and upon what terms their members were admitted; that so both the Dr. and the reader may judge, how near some believers who walk together in the fellowship of the gospel, do come in their practice to these apostolical rules which are propounded by the Dr. as Gods method in gathering churches and admitting members. / By Hanserd Knollys. Printed and published according to order. Imprimatur, Ja: Cranford.A moderate answer vnto Dr. Bastvvicks book; called Independency not Gods ordinance. Wherein is declared the manner how some churches in this city were gathered, and upon what tearmes their members were admitted; that so both the Dr. and the reader may judge, how near some beleevers who walk together in the fellowship of the gospell, do come in their practice to these apostolicall rules which are propounded by the Dr. as Gods method in gethering churches and admitting members. / By Hanserd Knollys. Printed and published according to order. Imprimatur, Ja: Cranford.
London: printed by Jane Coe, 1645London: printed by Iane Coe, 1645
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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.
But before he comes to the proof of these particulars he saith it will not be amiss in general to take notice, That all the Churches we read of in the New Testament, were Aristocratically and Presbyterially governed, and were all Dependent upon their several Presbyters, and produceth divers places of Scripture to prove the same, and two sheets are spent wholly in proving thereof from the 12. page to the 29. All which (should it be granted) only proves. First, That in every City or Church there was a Presbytery, Acts. 14.23. [Greek or Hebrew], cumque per suffragia statuissent illis per singulas Ecclesias seniors, that is, When they had ordained them Elders in every Church by the Suffrage or stretching forth of Hands, also Titus 1.5. [Greek or Hebrew], & constituas oppidatim seniors, that is, And thou mayest Ordain Elders town by town, or city by city, or village by village.
But before hee comes to the proof of these particulars hee saith it will not bee amisse in generall to take notice, That all the Churches we read of in the New Testament, were Aristocratically and Prestbyterially governed, and were all Dependent upon their severall Presbyters, and produceth divers places of Scripture to prove the same, and two sheets are spent wholly in proving thereof from the 12. page to the 29. All which (should it bee granted) only proves. First, That in every City or Church there was a Presbiterie, Acts. 14.23. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, cumque per suffragia statuissent illis per singulas Ecclesias seniores, that is, When they had ordained them Elders in every Church by the Suffrage or stretching forth of Hands, also Titus 1.5. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, & constituas oppidatim seniores, that is, And thou mayest Ordaine Elders towne by towne, or city by city, or village by village.