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The select anti-patronage library; consisting chiefly of reprints of scarce pamphlets connected with lay-patronage in the Church of Scotland - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...Gillespie says, "The tenet of Protestants, which Bellarmine undertakes to confute, is this,' Ut sine populi consensu et suffragio, nemo legitime electus aut vocatus ad episcopatum habeatur'--' that without the consent and suffrage of the people, no man is to be esteemed lawfully chosen and called to the office of a bishop;' and though our writers disclaim many things which he imputeth unto them, yet I find not this," says he, " disclaimed by any of them;"f and then he cites a great many eminent Protestant divines, who plainly maintained this, as Luther, Calvin, Beza, &c. Mr Sage having asserted the election of pastors belongeth not to the people of divine right, the Rev. Mr Jamison, that valiant and successful champion for Presbytery.J blames his doctrine as palpably Popish, and doctrine, against which our first reformers earnestly strove, as soon as they were sent forth to fight the battles of the Lamb against the dragon. Mr J. O., in his Plea for Scripture Ordination, or Ordination by Presbyters only as valid, emitted with a preface by the Rev. Mr Daniel Williams, when showing that such ordinations are better than those of Rome, which yet are owned as valid by Prelatists, he says, " Their priests are made without the election of the people." And Bellarmine says, " That neither their suffragium, consilium, or consensus is required, which," says he, "is contrary to Scripture and antiquity, as our Protestant writers have proved against the Papists; whereas," adds he, " our candidates are not obtruded upon the people, without their choice and consent." And this hath been the sentiment of the Church of Scotland also. In the First Book of Discipline it is said, " The election of ministers was ...
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