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.
Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
CHAP. III. Of great Presbyteries which some call Classes.
THree false gloss•s on 1 Tim. 4.14. confuted. That the Apostle 〈◊〉 by the Presbytery a• Assembly of Presbyters. whereof also Fathers and Councels do speak. The warrant and authority of our Classicall Presbyteries declared both by good reasons, and by the Apostolicall patern: for assertion of the latter it is proved, 1. That in ma∣ny of those Cities wherein the Apostles planted Christian religion, there was a greater number of christians then did or could ordinarily assemble into one place. 2. That in these Cities there was a plurality of Pastors. 3. That yet the whole within the City was one Church. 4. That the whole was governed by one common Presbytery. From all which a Corollary is drawne for these our Classicall Pres∣byteries.
