Paradigms in Polity : Classic Readings in Reformed and Presbyterian Church Government Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	History and Character of Church Government	3
2	The Pastoral and Theological Significance of Church Government	12
3	The Apostolic Church: Which Is It?	35
4	Earliest Textual Documentation	55
5	The Institutes of the Christian Religion	62
6	Presbyterianism: The Truly Primitive and Apostolical Constitution of the Church of Christ	74
7	The Second Helvetic Confession	105
8	The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin	118
9	Ecclesiastical Discipline, 1559	134
10	Ecclesiastical Ordinances, 1561	140
11	The French (Gallican) Confession, 1559	156
12	The Outward Administration of the Church	159
13	The Belgic Confession, 1561	171
14	The Church Order of Dort, 1619/ Christian Reformed Church Order, 1914	175
15	The Reformed Church in America Constitutions, 1792, 1833, 1874	185
16	The Book of Discipline, 1560	219
17	The Scots Confession	226
18	The Second Book of Discipline, 1578	233
19	Book of Discipline, 1587	248
20	The Westminster Assembly Directory for Church Government	260
21	The Minutes of the Westminster Assembly of Divines	278
22	The Due Right of Presbyteries	303
23	The Church of Christ	322
24	Minutes of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1706-1788	331
25	The Adopting Act	348
26	Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America	365
27	Synod and Assembly Rules of Order	393
28	Minutes of the First General Assembly of the PCUSA	409
29	The Ruling Elder	422
30	The Old School/New School Division Extracts, 1834-1837	435
31	The Church and Its Polity	446
32	What Is Presbyterian Law?	477
33	Baird's Digest	494
34	Presbyterian Government: Not a Hierarchy, but a Commonwealth	505
35	The Westminster Confession and Creeds	524
36	Theories of the Eldership	538
37	Church-Boards and Presbyterianism	558
38	The Powers of the Several Church-Courts	585
39	Bibliographical Essay	603
	Index	617