The anarchy of the ranters, and other libertines; the hierarchy of the Romanists, and other pretended churches, equally refused and refuted, in a two-fold apology for the church and people of God, called in derision, Quakers. : Wherein they are vindicated from those that accuse them of disorder and confusion on the one hand, and from such as calumniate them with tyranny and imposition on the other; shewing, that as the true and pure principles of the Gospel are restored by their testimony; so is also the antient apostolick order of the Church of Christ re-established among them, and settled upon its right basis and foundation. / By Robert Barclay. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts]

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Author:	Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.
Title:	The anarchy of the ranters, and other libertines; the hierarchy of the Romanists, and other pretended churches, equally refused and refuted, in a two-fold apology for the church and people of God, called in derision, Quakers. : Wherein they are vindicated from those that accuse them of disorder and confusion on the one hand, and from such as calumniate them with tyranny and imposition on the other; shewing, that as the true and pure principles of the Gospel are restored by their testimony; so is also the antient apostolick order of the Church of Christ re-established among them, and settled upon its right basis and foundation. / By Robert Barclay. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts]
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THE PREFACE TO THE READER.

THE ANARCHY OF THE RANTERS, &c.

SECTION I. The Introduction and Method of this Treatise.

SECTION II. Concerning the Ground and Cause of this CON|TROVERSY.

SECTION III. Whether there is now to be any Order or Go|vernment in the Church of Christ.

SECTION IV. Of the Order and Government which we plead for.

SECTION V. In what Cases, and how far this Government extends. And first, as to Outwards and Tem|porals.

SECTION VI. How far this Government doth extend in Mat|ters Spiritual, and purely Conscientious.

SECTION VII. Concerning the Power of DECISION.

SECTION VIII. How this Government altogether differeth from the oppressing and persecuting Principality of the Church of Rome, and other Anti-Christian Assemblies.

THE CONCLUSION.

THE CONTENTS.