OF THE

PRESBYTERIAN FORM

OF

CHURCH-GOVERNMENT,

AS

PROFESSED IN THE STANDARDS

OF THE

Church of Scotland;

In Reply to

THE ANIMADVERSIONS

OF

• Mefirs. INNES, EWING, BALLENTINE, GLASS, &t. among the
Modern, and of GOODWIN, LOCKIER, COTTON, &c.
among the Ancient Independents.

In a Series of Letters, addressed to Mr. INNES.
With an APPENDIX, containing Remarks on Mr. HALDANE'S
View of Social Worship.

BY JOHN BROWN,

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, GARTMORE.

"Where every thing must undergo difcuffion," (i. e. by the people, as is the cafe in In-
dependent churches) " some may be in danger of thinking that they have laws to make,
"instead of laws to obey. A few of the most active spirit and readieft elocution will become
"the real movers and managers in every bufiness. Those, in short, who have most need of
"reftraint, are in danger of being led to set it at defiance, while the peaceful, and those to
"whom the government is committed nominally, are terrified and chained down by the tur-
bulence of the rest."
Ewing on Aθς κυ.

"Let it be recollected, it is systems, not the character either of individuals or of particular
focieties, the merits of which we are here canvaffing."

"Ponderibus librata fuis."

Innes.

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