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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Forrester, Thomas, 1635?-1706.
Publication: Edinburgh :: Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson ...,; 1692.
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Subject terms: Cunningham, Alexander. -- An essay concerning church government, out of the excellent writings of Calvin and Beza.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Reformed churches -- Government.; Presbyterianism.
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This Proposition, as here worded, we did above dis-prove, and did shew, that according to his design in this Citation of Calvin, he must add both a sole power, and likewise an ordinary power; that this place of Galvin will neither prove his holding it fixed, nor an or∣dinary power in the Apostles, both which we have found Calvin doth disown in several places above-cited. Besides the above-evinced in∣consistency of the two Branches, of this Proposition, compared with his pretended proof; so that the Major appears nought. The assump∣tion is,