A counter-essay, or, A vindication and assertion of Calvin and Beza's presbyterian judgment and principles drawn from their writings, in answer to the imputations of a late pamphlet, entituled, An essay concerning church-government ... attempting to fasten upon them an episcopal perswasion ... / by a minister of the true Presbyterian Church of Scotland, established by law.

Answer.

First, we have proved upon Definition 4, that Beza's taking this An∣gel for one single person, by whom the rest were to be admonished, will

infer in Beza's Sense no preheminence in Office, and Authority over his Colleagues.

2. That Beza disownes even the inference of the necessity, of a fixed Moderator, as necessary following upon his Assertion; Yea,

3. That he holds this practice of the fixed Moderator to be founded only upon a humane Custom; and such a Custom as gave a rise to Antichristian Tyranny; and consequently that the Ministers of these Churches, are owned by Beza as Colleagues, of equal Power and Authority with the President, though by him immediately be-spoken, and so by clear and necessary consequence further, their continuing faithful in their Administrations, can import nothing more in Beza's sense, in the words here cited, then a faithfulness in the exercise of their joynt Collegiat Power and Authority, which Beza holds, was our Lords Institution, and then existent. Thus we have seen this mans Po∣stulatums, as insufficient to found his Conclusion, as the Definitions. Proceed we now to his next Section of Axioms.