Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... Have not families, schools of learning, Colleges, Universities, Cities, Towns, all manner of Corporations, Companies and Societies, Governors proper and peculiar to themselves: besides the public Magistrates, who are also over them? Is it not by experience found, that such proper and peculiar Governors are needful and useful, and so good in their several spheres? And shall the best Society on earth, the militant Church, be without Ecclesiastical Governors, proper and peculiar to it? ...
For more, see William Gouge: The argument from experience on the need for church government.
For more, see William Gouge: The argument from experience on the need for church government.