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Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D, Vol. 11: Containing the Constitution, Right Order, and Government of the Churches of Christ, &C
Book IV. - The claims of the Presbyterian government considered and refuted - That the church universal is not a church poli tical, and the seat of government. - That the institution for worship and government falleth not upon the saints in a nation, as a nation or kingdom, to be the seat of it. - That an argument cannot be urged for a national church government, from the instance of the Jewish pattern. - That a standing presbytery is not to be set up to exercise power and juris diction over particular congregations.
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