THE

RULING ELDERSHIP.

OF THE

CHRISTIAN CHURCH,

BY THE

REV. DAVID KING, LL.D.,

GLASGOW.

NEW YORK:
ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,

No 580 BROAD WAY.

1856.

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ANDOVER-HARVARD
THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

CONTENTS.

PAOX

INTRODUCTION,

PART I.

BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE ARGUMENT FOR THE OFFICE

OF RULING ELDER,

14

General

PART II.

DUTIES OF ELDERS.

CHAP. I.-Duties common to them with others-Deport-

ment in Secular Affairs,

44

Government of their own Families,

46

CHAP. II.—Official Duties of Elders viewed Individually:

Each bis District,

51

District Roll-Book,

52

Visitation of District,

53

Visitation of the Sick,

56

Expostulation with Offenders,

65

Attentions to the Young, Classes, etc.,

73

District Prayer Meetings,

82

CHAP. III.-Official Duties of Elders viewed Collectively: 87

Frequency of Meeting, and Regularity of Attendance, 88

Minutes, Congregational List, and Apportioning of the

Congregation,

89

Admission of Members,

90

Discipline,

97

Measures affecting Public Worship, etc.,

99

General Encouragement to Beneficent Institutions, 100

Conclusion,

101

Char. IV.-Duties of Elders in the higher Church Courts, 104

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