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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Church of Scotland -- Government.
Presbyteriall government examined.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42758.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025.

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CHAP. XIIII. Of the Ordination of ruling-Elders. Of the continuance of their Office, and of their maintenance.

THat the want of the Imposition of hands in Ordina∣tion, the want of maintainance, and the not conti∣nuing

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alwaies in the xercise of the Office, cannot be pre∣judiciall to the Office it selfe of Ruling-Elders.

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