The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D - Containing the Constitution, Right Order, and Government of the Churches of Christ, &C #272126

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.