A92287:136
The reasons of the Dissenting Brethren against the third proposition, concerning presbyterial government· Humbly…
The reasons of the Dissenting Brethren against the third proposition, concerning presbyterial government· Humbly presented.
London: printed by G.M. for Ralph Smith, 1645
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Sect. 9.
It was not found an easy work in this Assembly to find two sorts of Elders, teaching, and ruling. Notwithstanding all the Scripture hath said of these, and in some places, so plain, as if of purpose to distinguish them▪ If it be so hard a matter by Scripture light to hold forth two sorts of Presbyters, it must needs be more difficult to find out two sorts of Presbyteries, especially seeing (as it is generally granted, and this by the Presbyterians themselves) that for above fifty years after Christ, and in the Apostles times, there was but one kind of Presbytery.
It was not found an easie work in this Assembly to finde two sorts of Elders, teaching, and ruling. Notwithstanding all the Scripture hath said of these, and in some places, so plaine, as if of purpose to distinguish them▪ If it bee so hard a matter by Scripture light to hold forth two sorts of Presbyters, it must needs bee more difficult to finde out two sorts of Presbyteries, especially seeing (as it is generally granted, and this by the Presbyterians themselves) that for above fifty yeeres after Christ, and in the Apostles times, there was but one kinde of Presbytery.