Resol.  To all or most of these doubts some competent satisfaction may be had from this treatise ensuing, if seriously considered.  For, 1.  That there is a church government of divine right, now under the New Testament, declared in Scripture, is proved, Part I. 2.  What that government is in particular, is evidenced both by the description of church government, and the confirmation of the parts thereof by Scripture, Part.  II. chap. 1, and so to the end of the book:  whereby it is cleared that the presbyterial government is that particular government which is of divine right, according to the word of God. 3.  What ordinary church officers, (members of the several elderships,) are of divine right, is proved, Part ii, chap. 11, sect. 1, viz. pastors and teachers, with ruling elders. 4.  That parochial or congregational elderships, consisting of preaching and ruling elders, are of divine right, is manifested, Part ii. chap. 12. 5.  That classical presbyteries, or assemblies, and their power in church government, are of divine right, is demonstrated, Part ii. chap. 13. 6.  That synodical assemblies, or councils in general, (consequently provincial, national, or ecumenical councils in particular,) and their power in church government, are of divine right, is cleared, Part ii. chap. 14. 7.  That appeals from congregational elderships, to classical and synodical assemblies, from lesser to greater assemblies associated, and power in those assemblies to determine authoritatively in such, appeals, are of divine right, is proved, Part ii. chap. 15. 8.  That the power of church censures is in Christ’s own church officers only as the first subject and proper receptacle there of divine right, is cleared, Part ii. chap. 11, sect. 2, which officers of Christ have and execute the said power respectively, in all the ruling assemblies, congregational, classical, or synodical.  See section 3, and chap. 12, 13, 14, 15. 9.  That the Scriptures hold forth, touching church government, not only general, but also many particular rules, sufficiently directing both persons and assemblies how they should duly put in execution their power of church, government.  This is made good, Part ii. chap. 4; and those that desire to know which are these rules in particular, may consult those learned[2] centuriators of Magdeburg, who have collected and methodically digested, in the very words of the Scripture, a system of canons or rules, touching church government, as in the preface to those rules they do profess, saying, touching things pertaining to the government of the Church, the apostles delivered certain canons, which we will add in order, &c., the very heads of which would be too prolix to recite. 10.  Finally, that neither the supreme civil magistrate, as such, nor consequently any commissioner or committees whatsoever, devised and erected by his authority, are the proper subject of the formal power of church government, nor may lawfully, by any virtue of the magistratical office, dispense any ecclesiastical censures or ordinances:  but that such undertakings are inconsistent with that way of government which Christ hath appointed in his Church, is evidenced, Part ii. chap. 9, well compared with chap. 11.