The pastor and the prelate, or reformation and conformitie shortly compared by the word of God, by antiquity and the proceedings of the ancient Kirk, by the nature and use of things indifferent, by the proceedings of our ovvne Kirk, by the vveill of the Kirk and of the peoples soules, and by the good of the commonvvealth and of our outvvard estate with the answer of the common & chiefest objections against everie part: shewing vvhether of the tvvo is to be follovved by the true Christian and countrieman.

Title

The pastor and the prelate, or reformation and conformitie shortly compared by the word of God, by antiquity and the proceedings of the ancient Kirk, by the nature and use of things indifferent, by the proceedings of our ovvne Kirk, by the vveill of the Kirk and of the peoples soules, and by the good of the commonvvealth and of our outvvard estate with the answer of the common & chiefest objections against everie part: shewing vvhether of the tvvo is to be follovved by the true Christian and countrieman.

Author

Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.

Publication

[Holland? :: S.n],

Anno M.DC.XXVIII. [1628]

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Church and state -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.

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"The pastor and the prelate, or reformation and conformitie shortly compared by the word of God, by antiquity and the proceedings of the ancient Kirk, by the nature and use of things indifferent, by the proceedings of our ovvne Kirk, by the vveill of the Kirk and of the peoples soules, and by the good of the commonvvealth and of our outvvard estate with the answer of the common & chiefest objections against everie part: shewing vvhether of the tvvo is to be follovved by the true Christian and countrieman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17576.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Christian Reader.
• THE FIRST PART.
  • The Pastor & Prelate compared by the VVord of God.
    • The Prelates objection.
    • The Pastors answer.
• THE SECOND PART.
  • The Pastor & Prelate compared by Antiquitie, and the proceedings of the Ancient Kirk.
    • The Prelates objection.
    • The Pastors answer.
• THE THIRD PART.
  • The Pastor & Prelate compared in their judgment and practise about things indifferent.
    • The Prelates objection.
    • The Pastors answer.
• THE FOURTH PART.
  • The Pastor & Prelate compared by the Reformation, and proceedings of our owne Kirk.
    • One of M. George Wishart martyr:
    • Another of Beza.
    • A third of the body of Confessions of fayth:
    • The fourth is of King James our late Soveraine:
    • The Prelates objection.
    • The Pastors answer.
• THE FIFTH PART.
  • The Pastor & Prelate compared by the weale of the Kirk. and the peoples soules.
    • The Prelates objection.
    • The Pastors answer.
• THE SIXTH PART.
  • The Pastor & Prelate compared by the good of the Common wealth, and of our outward estate.
    • The Prelates objection.
    • The Pastors answer.
• errata