Church Government and Church Questions (Classic Reprint)

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"What was not in the times of the Apostles cannot be deduced from them. We say in Scotland, 'It cannot be brought but that is not in the ben;' but (not to insist on a liturgy, and things of that kind) there was no such hierarchy, no such difference betwixt a Bishop and a Presbyter in the times of the Apostles, and therefore it cannot hence be deduced; for I conceive it to be as clear as if it were written with a sunbeam, that Presbyter and Bishop are to the Apostles one and the same thing; no majority, no inequality or difference of office, power, or degree betwixt the one and the other, but a mere identity in all."

"Notwithstanding all that is pretended from antiquity, a Bishop having sole power of ordination and jurisdiction will never be found in prime antiquity." - Alexander Henderson's Correspondence with Charles I. Letters of date 3d June 1646, and 17th June 1646.

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