The divine right of Presbyterie, asserted by the present Assembly, and petitioned for accordingly to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament. With reasons discussing this pretended divine right; and yet with tendernesse to the brethren of the Presbyterial way. Pleading for a liberty of conscience for them in this their opinion, as for others of their dissenting brethren, and equally for both. With inferences upon their late petition. / By John Saltmarsh, preacher of the gospel.

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The divine right of Presbyterie, asserted by the present Assembly, and petitioned for accordingly to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament. With reasons discussing this pretended divine right; and yet with tendernesse to the brethren of the Presbyterial way. Pleading for a liberty of conscience for them in this their opinion, as for others of their dissenting brethren, and equally for both. With inferences upon their late petition. / By John Saltmarsh, preacher of the gospel.

Author

Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.

Publication

London, :: Printed for G. Calvert, at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls.,

1646.

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Westminster Assembly (1643-1652) -- Early works to 1800.

Presbyterianism -- Early works to 1800.

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"The divine right of Presbyterie, asserted by the present Assembly, and petitioned for accordingly to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament. With reasons discussing this pretended divine right; and yet with tendernesse to the brethren of the Presbyterial way. Pleading for a liberty of conscience for them in this their opinion, as for others of their dissenting brethren, and equally for both. With inferences upon their late petition. / By John Saltmarsh, preacher of the gospel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93581.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

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• To those Brethren of the Assembly of Divines, Petitioners who are for the pretended Divine Right of the present PRESBYTERY.
• THE DIVINE RIGHT OF Presbytery, &c. With Reasons discussing this pre∣tended Divine Right.
• THE LAST PETITION OF THE Assembly, for Divine Right in their present PRESBYTERY, with Inferences upon it.
• Principles against the Divine Right of their present Presbytery ex∣tracted from the Reasons.
• Principles destructive to their present Petition extracted from the Inferences.
  • 1. The Presbytery now not so distinct in gifts and office, but the Magistrate may rule with them.
  • 2. The Magistrate may better rule then the Eldership or present Presbytery.
  • 3. Vniformity in the Word of God is the Vniformity of Churches.
  • 4. The Magistrate as they now make him is Ecclesiasticall as well as they.
  • 5. The present Presbytery in mystery, both over and under the Magistrate.
• The Position being a safer way for the Magistrate then the Erastian, and how the Presbyteriall Brethren cannot justly exclude him from ruling with them, according to the present constitu∣tion both of the pretended Church and Presbytery.
• Conclusion.