[Footnote 119:  Col. ii. 6; 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.]

[Footnote 120:  Col. i. 12.]

[Footnote 121:  1 Pet. ii. 5.]

[Footnote 122:  From Brown’s Letters.]

[Footnote 123:  Extracted from the Christian Magazine for Sept. 1797—­a periodical publication well worth the perusal of the friends of evangelical doctrine.]

[Footnote 124:  From Brown’s Letters.]

[Footnote 125:  This number is a summary of Dr. Owen’s arguments in favor of the divine right of the ruling elder, with an abstract of the duties which he ought to perform.  Although the Doctor was a professed Independent, yet he was entirely different, both in doctrine and church government, from any in Scotland that bear that name, as all who are acquainted with his works will easily observe.  The writer of his life asserts that he heard him say, “He could readily join with presbytery as it was exercised in Scotland.”  And indeed it appears very probable that the difference between the consultative synod which he allows, and the authoritative synod contended for by true Presbyterians, is not so far different as many apprehend, because the decisions of either bind the conscience only as they are agreeable to the Holy Ghost speaking in the Scriptures.]