[Footnote 109:  Assertion, &c., part 2, chap. 3, p. 139.]

[Footnote 110:  Basilius in Psal. cxv.  Oecumenius in loc.  Jerom.  Chrysostome, hom. 33, in Matt.  Irenaeus, lib. 1, chap. 11.  Salmeron.]

[Footnote 111:  Euseb.  Hist.  Eccles. 1. 8 c. 1.]

[Footnote 112:  If Cenchrea be comprehended under the church of Corinth in this epistle, and the apostle writing to the Corinthians, wrote also to this church, called, Rom. xvi. 1, the church of Cenchrea, then have we more congregations than one at Corinth.  Now, Cenchrea was a seaport or harbor of the Corinthians.  It was a place near to Corinth, on the east of the Egean Sea.  Rutherford, in his Due Right of Presbyteries, page 462.]

[Footnote 113:  Paget, Gillespie, and the four Leyden professors, unto whose judicious and elaborate treatises, the reader is referred for more full satisfaction against the usual cavils and exceptions that are made against synods, and their power.]

[Footnote 114:  This is the judgment of the learned Whitaker upon these words:  other lawful councils may in like manner assert “their decrees to be the decrees of the Holy Ghost, if they shall be like to this council, and shall keep the same rule, which in this council the apostles did keep and follow.  For if they shall decree and determine nothing but from Scripture, (which was done in this council.) and if they shall examine all questions by the Scripture, and shall follow the voice of the Scriptures in all their decrees, then they may assert, that the Holy Ghost so decreed,” &c.  Whitaker, Cont. page 610.]

[Footnote 115:  That there is an authoritative, juridical synod; and that this synod, Acts xv., was such a one; and that this synod is a pattern to us;—­all this is most ingenuously acknowledged and asserted by that learned Independent, Mr. John Cotton, in these words, viz: 

“IV.  Proposition, in case a particular church be disturbed with errors of scandal, and the same maintained by a faction among them.  Now a synod of churches, or of their messengers, is the first subject of that power and authority, whereby error is judicially convinced and condemned, the truth searched out and determined; and the way of truth and peace declared and imposed upon the churches.

“The truth of this proposition may appear by two arguments

“Argum. 1.  From the want of power in such a particular church, to pass a binding sentence where error or scandal is maintained by a faction; for the promise of binding and loosing which is made to a particular church, Matt, xviii. 18, is not given to the church when it is leavened with error and variance.  And the ground——­If then the church, or a considerable part of it, fall into error through ignorance, or into faction; by variance, they cannot expect the presence of Christ with them according to his promise, to pass a blind sentence.  And then as they fall under the conviction and admonition of any other sister church, in a way of brotherly love, by virtue of communion of churches; so their errors and variance, and whatsoever scandals else do accompany the same, they are justly subject to the condemnation of a synod of churches.