An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of ruling-elders and of the authority of presbyteries and synods with a postscript in answer to a treatise lately published against presbyteriall government.

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Title: An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of ruling-elders and of the authority of presbyteries and synods with a postscript in answer to a treatise lately published against presbyteriall government.
Author: Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
Publication: Edinburgh :: Printed for Iames Bryson,; 1641.
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Subject terms: Church of Scotland -- Government.; Presbyteriall government examined.
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CHAP. XI. Dr. Fields five arguments against ruling-Elders, answered.

HIs first reason, that no foot-step of Ruling-Elders for many hundreth years could be found in any Chri∣stian Church, answered five waies. Footsteps of Ruling-Elders in the Church of England. His second reason an∣swered. That we ought to judge of the Officers of the Church, not from 1 Tim. 3. only, but from that and other places compared together. His third reason answered by the c••rtain bounds of the power of Ruling-Elders. His fourth reason answered by the distinction of the Ecclesia∣stica••l Sanedrim of the Iewes, from their civill Sanedrim. His last reason concerning the names holdeth not.