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The Divine Right of
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Apostolic "Divine
Right" Presbyterianism in Acts 16:4
"And as they went through the cities, they
delivered them the decrees for to keep,
that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. And so
were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily"
(Acts 16:4-5, emphasis added).
Scriptural
uniformity can easily be seen in the "apostolic" Presbyterian general
assembly at Jerusalem (cf. Acts 15). In fact, this general assembly
"delivered decrees" that were
binding on all the individual churches that were part of the one visible church
which adhered to apostolic doctrine. The Greek word used in Acts 16:4 for "decrees"
is "dogmata." Compare this with the word "decree" used in Luke 2:1. This same
word as used in Luke 2:1 is referring to the decree of Caesar Augustus regarding
his call for an empire wide census. This was not a suggestion given by Caesar,
nor was it just advice that could be ignored without penalty -- it was law! In the same way the
decree sent down by the general assembly that took place in Acts 15 was to be held
as law for the church. Furthermore, these pronouncements (because in keeping
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ALL THE CHURCHES! (Adapted from "Presbyterianism and Independency" in
British Reformed Journal, No. 11, July-Aug. 1995).
It is also
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(1647) with the Independent's Savoy Declaration (1658). The
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A
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highlighted at apposite critical points by the words in heavy type. One sees Westminster's decree (31:3), which corresponds to the Greek dogmata of the Textus
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article XXVI, which latter corresponds with
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John Owen the Presbyterian
Owen
himself (Works XVI:2) told several men that he could readily join with
Presbytery the way it was exercised in Scotland. Moreover, historian
Wodrow in his own [1716] Analecta (1842 ed. 2:263 & 2:309) records:
"Blackwell
tells...he had this account of Owen at his death from persons who were with him
-- that he expressed himself very much in favour of Presbyterian Government,
and said he was persuaded that Presbytery was the
way to God....
"Redpath
told me...he visited Dr. Owen on his deathbed, and Presbytery and Episcopacy
came to be discoursed of.... The Doctor said how
he had seen his mistake as to the Independent way, and declared to him a day or
two before his death that after his utmost search into the Scriptures and
antiquity, he was now satisfied that
Presbytery was the way Christ had appointed in His New Testament Church."
From: John Owen Represbyterianized by F.
Nigel Lee (Resource #1 below).
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Resource 1. LEE,
FRANCIS NIGEL
John Owen Represbyterianized
This
book chronicles John Owen's thought as he matured and ultimately re-embraced
the Presbyterianism of his youth. However, it is also much more -- being a fine introduction to biblical Presbyterianism!
In a
fascinating manner John Owen
Represbyterianized begins tracing Presbyterianism from the Heavenly Session in the Trinity. It
continues by moving from the Presbyterianism of
the antediluvian Patriarchs to a survey of Presbyterian church government as it
is revealed throughout the Old Testament. It then demonstrates
how the "Older Testament Presbyterianism continues as Christian
Presbyterianism" in the New Testament (all the while providing an
excellent historical overview and summary of Presbyterianism as it is found
throughout the complete inspired record of Scripture).
Dr.
Lee also provides many exegetical proofs for Presbyterianism while furnishing
numerous insights into how the original languages of the Bible set forth the
Presbyterian system of church government.
This
is all accomplished in an easy-reading format which even a young Christian
should be able to understand -- while, at the same time, offering profound
divine truths that will be much appreciated by those more skilled and mature in
the use of their biblical swords.
Dr.
Lee writes,
The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that Britain's great
Puritan Theologian... John Owen, was essentially not a Congregationalist but a
Presbyterian. He first pastored a Presbyterian Church. On his deathbed, he
re-affirmed Presbyterianism.
The
depresbyterianized Owen later re-embraced Presbyterianism... Dr. Owen, 1616-83,
was quite the greatest alleged Congregationalist and certainly one of the most
thorough Theologians Britain has ever produced. Educated at Oxford, he first
pastored a Presbyterian Church -- in 1643, the year the Westminster Assembly
itself was convened. After reading a book by the American John Cotton, Owen
inwardly embraced Congregationalism.
In
his next parish, he seceded from Presbyterianism... the system many in the
Puritan Parliament and most at the presbyterianizing Westminster Assembly were
then trying to promote in the wake of The Solemn League and Covenant -- for
Reformation and Defence of Religion; the Honour and Happiness of the King; and
the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland -- taken and subscribed
several times by King Charles and by all ranks in the said three kingdoms.
At
the termination of the Monarchy and the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1649,
Cromwell the Congregationalist appointed Owen Vice-Chancellor at Oxford. He
became the chief architect of the Cromwellian State Church, and helped compose
the congregationalistic Savoy Declaration of Faith in 1658 (intended to
replace the presbyterial Westminster Confession of Faith and its chapter
31:1-5). Subsequent to the termination of the Commonwealth and the Restoration
of the Monarchy in 1660, Owen was ejected from Oxford.
After
congregationalistically pastoring a 'gathered church' in his own home and
elsewhere for the next two decades -- at the end of
his life he certainly moved back toward and seems actually to have re-embraced
Presbyterianism. How could it be otherwise -- with Owen constantly
improving his own infant baptism, in the Name of the Triune God (Who is Himself
a Presbytery)? See Westminster Larger Catechism, Q. & A. 167! Thus
the proto-Presbyterian... John Owen -- after a lapse into Congregationalism --
thereafter increasingly re-presbyterianized...
The
Final Represbyterianization of... John Owen
Presbyterian
Baxter was so impressed by words like these in Owen's Catechism, that he wrote to
him... proposing union between the Congregationalists and the Presbyterians. To
that, Dr. Owen himself replied (I:cix-cxxi)...
"I
judge your proposals worthy of great consideration.... I see no reason why all
the true disciples of Christ might not, upon these and the like principles,
condescend in love unto the practical concord and agreement -- which not one of
them dare deny to be their duty to aim at."
Owen himself (Works XVI:2) told several men that he could readily
join with Presbytery the way it was exercised in Scotland. Moreover, historian
Wodrow in his own [1716] Analecta (1842 ed. 2:263 & 2:309) records:
"Blackwell
tells...he had this account of Owen at his death from persons who were with
him... that he expressed himself very much in favour of Presbyterian
Government, and said he was persuaded that Presbytery was the way to God....
"Redpath
told me...he visited Dr. Owen on his deathbed, and Presbytery and Episcopacy
came to be discoursed of.... The Doctor said how he
had seen his mistake as to the Independent way, and declared to him a day or
two before his death that after his utmost search into the Scriptures and
antiquity, he was now satisfied that Presbytery was the way Christ had
appointed in His New Testament Church."
Owen
died in 1683. One of his most important tracts, The True Nature of a Gospel
Church and its Government, was published posthumously six years later in 1689.
Rightly, the later congregationalistic editor W.H. Goold admitted in his own
'Prefatory Note' thereto (VXI:2) that because "of some statements in the
following treatise...it has been gravely argued that the author returned to the
Presbyterianism of his early days before he died." Those statements are
found especially in Owen's chapter on 'the Communion of Churches.'
Let
us summarize Owen's final conclusions in his own words. In his essay Duty of
Pastors and People Distinguished (XIII:39), he wrote:
"The
principles and rules of that church government from which...I desire not to
wander, are...called presbyterial or synodical -- in opposition to prelatical
or diocesan on the one side, and that which is commonly called independent or
congregational on the other."
And another
little taste of Dr. Lee's findings,
...the
above-mentioned text Acts 15:2-6 records the beginning of the deliberations of
the General Assembly in Jerusalem, in answer to its receipt of the reference
from the Presbytery of Antioch. This is to be found just prior to its
formulation of binding decrees to be kept by "the Churches" in all of
"the cities" of Antioch and Cilicia and Syria where Congregations had
been established. Acts 13:1f; 14:23-27; 15:1-41; 16:4-5.
Owen
states (XV:530) "it follows that in case any Church [singular]...do give
offence unto other Churches [plural], those other Churches may require an
account from them; admonish them of their faults; and withhold communion from
them in case they persist in the error of their way.... Hence also it follows
that those that are rightly and justly censured ... in any Church [singular]...
ought to be rejected by all Churches [plural] whatever...because of their
mutual communion.... In case there had been any difficulty or doubt in the
procedure of the Church [singular], they would have taken the advice of these
Churches [plural] with whom they were obliged to consult."
Don't miss this
one, it will save you hours of study and research
while also providing many valuable insights (on church government) that would
be otherwise unavailable to those who do not read the original biblical
languages. Furthermore, the story of John Owen's return to
Presbyterianism is extremely interesting and very well documented and easily
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Resource 2.
CAWDREY, DANIEL
Independence a Great Schism:
Proved Against Dr. (John--RB) Owen, His Apology in his Tract of Schism (1657)
Chapter titles
include: Of the Nature of Schism in Scripture;
Causeless Separation from a true Church is Schism; Of the Church Catholic
Mystical, and its Union; Of the Church Catholic visible, and its Union;
Independentism in Donatism; Of the particular Church, and its Union; Independentism,
a great Schism.
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Resource 3.
WITHEROW, THOMAS
The Apostolic Church, Which
Is It?
Shows, based on six Scriptural and
Apostolic principles, which system of governing the church [Independent,
Prelatical or Presbyterian] is pleasing to God. Concludes that
Presbyterianism is set forth in Scripture as of divine right. Joe Morecraft
calls this book "irrefutable." See Rutherfurd's Due Right of
Presbyteries or his Divine Right of Church Government for more advanced
treatment of this subject. Easy reading, engaging, and a good textbook for
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Resource 4.
WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
The Reasons Presented by the
Dissenting Brethren Against Certain Propositions Concerning Presbyterial
Government. And the Proofs of them Voted by the Assembly of Divines, sitting by
authority of Parliament, at Westminster. Together With the Answer of the
Assembly of Divines to those Reasons of Dissent (1648)
It is
interesting to note, as Hetherington points out in his History of the
Westminster Assembly of Divines (p. 220), that,
(i)n their answer, the Assembly Divines seem almost to have been
ashamed to analyze and expose the weak sophistry of the Dissenting Brethren's
argument... but by availing themselves of the concessions made by the Independents
in the course of their own illustrations, they completely overthrow the whole
Congregational theory.
Regarding the
book itself Hetherington writes,
These
reasons of Dissent, and the Answers by the Assembly, occupied the attention of
that venerable body during the conclusion of the year 1644, and the early part
of the year 1645; and when fully completed, both the reasons and the answers
were submitted to the consideration of the Parliament for a considerable time,
and when the discussions of the Assembly had terminated, an order was issued by
the House of Lords, on the 24th of January 1648 (or 1647, according to their
style), that these reasons and answers should be printed from the papers in the
hands of Adoniram Byfield, one of the Assembly's scribes, after having been
inspected by Messrs Goodwin and Whittaker, to secure their genuineness and
authenticity; and they were published in the same year... In the year 1652, the
same publication received a new title-page, and was called The Grand Debate concerning Presbytery and
Independency, by the Assembly of Divines convened at Westminster by authority
of Parliament (History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, pp. 221-222).
In
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Resource 5.
CAWDREY, DANIEL
The Inconsistency of the
Independent Way, With Scripture and Itself (1651)
The inconsistency of the Independent way is
"Manifested in a threefold Discourse: 1. Vindiciae
Vindiciarum,
or A further manifestation of John Cotton's
contradictions, instanced in Vindiciae Clavium, Being A Rejoinder to
his Reply (to some few of those many Contradictions) in his last Book, called,
The Way of Congregational Churches Cleared, Part 2; 2.
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Resource 6.
BAILLIE, ROBERT
A Dissuasive from the Errors
of the Time: Wherein the Tenets of the principal Sects, especially of the
Independents, are drawn together in one Map, for the most part, in the words of
their own Authors, and their main principles are examined by the Touchstone of
the Holy Scriptures (1645)
Chapter titles include: The origin and progress of the Brownists; The doctrine of the Brownists; The origin and progress of the Independents, and of their carriage in New England; The carriage of the Independents in H