OF Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. EDITED BY REV. PROF. J. WM. FLINN, D. D. NEW EDITION WITH BRIEF NOTES AND PREFACES VOLUME IV. Columbia, S. C. Reprinted by The R. L. Bryan Company. EDITORIAL NOTE. Dr. Smyth's Complete Works comprised in these volumes are published under written instructions left by him. The cost of publication is paid by a fund which he provided. The Editor's work has been confined mainly to proof reading and to occasional recensions of the printed text. The works are re-issued not for the general book-market, but for donation to public libraries. J. WM. FLINN. 261646 NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF Ruling Elders WHEREIN IT IS SHOWN FROM THE TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE, THE FATHERS AND THE REFORMERS THAT RULING ELDERS ARE NOT PRESBYTERS OR BISHOPS AND THAT AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE, THEIR OFFICE OUGHT TO BE TEMPORARY. WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE USE OF THE TITLE BISHOP. BY THOMAS SMYTH, D. D., AUTHOR OF "LECTURES ON THE APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION," "PRESBYTERY AND NOT PRELACY THE SCRIPTURAL AND PRIMITIVE POLITY,' ETC. PUBLISHED: NEW-YORK, MARK H. NEWMAN, ROBERT CARTER, LEAVITT, TROW AND CO., AND WILEY AND PUTNAM; EDINBURGH, W. P. KEN- |