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A treatise I. Of faith. II. Twelve fundamental articles of Christian religion. III. A…
A treatise I. Of faith. II. Twelve fundamental articles of Christian religion. III. A doctrinal conclusion. IV. Questions and answers upon church-government. Taken from written copies long since delivered by the late Reverend Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston, in New-England.
Boston: printed by Bartholemew Green?, 1713
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 4: Questions and Answers upon CHURCH-GOVERNMENT: By Mr. John Cotton. Begun 25.11 m. 1634.
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.
A. The Ministers, and Officers of the Church, are some of them Extraordinary, as Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists; some Ordinary, as Bishops and Deacons, Eph 4 21 1 Cor 12.28 Mark 10.15, 16 2 Cor 11.28 Acts 14 23 & 11.28, 29 & 21.8, 9 10, 11 Rom 12.6, 7, 8 Eph 4.11 2 Tim 4, 5 Acts 15.37, 38 1 Tim 3.4 Titus 1.5 Acts 21 Phil 1.1 1 Tim 3.1, 2 Acts 20.17 compared with 28 Acts 6 34 1 Tim 3.13, 14 compared with 1 Tim 6.13, 14.
Q. What sorts of Bishops, hath God Ordained in his Church?
A. There are three sorts of them, according as there be three sorts of Elders in the Church, though under two heads; some Pastors, some Teachers, some Ruling Elders; that is to say, such Elders as labour in Word and Doctrine; and such as Rule the Church of God, 1 Tim 1 13 1 Cor 12.28 Rom 12.7, 8 1 Tim 5.17