The Reformed Elder

Gordon Rupp , The Righteousness of God (London [1953 ]), 300.

Harro Höpfl. The Christian Polity of John Calvin (Cambridge [1982]), see 90-102.

Op. cit., 94. quoting from Johannis Calvini Opera Selecta (Munich [1926-36]) eds. P. Barth and W. Niesel, 11, 339.

For the work of Oecolampadius see Gordon Rupp, Patterns of the Reformation (London [1979]), 28-42; for the reformation in Strasbourg, see Miriam Chrisman Strasbourg and the Reform (New Haven [1°67]), passim, but esp. 207-16, and H. Ells Martin Bucer (New Haven [1931]), 127-138.

Höpfl, op. cit., 339.

Of the 8th head'. The First Book of Discipline ed. J. K. Cameron (Edinburgh [1972]), 174-80 and the introduction. 35ff.

The Second Book of Discipline ed. James Kirk (Edinburgh [1980]), VI. 1, 191.

So James Kirk, op. cit., 90, from the evidence of St Andrew's Kirk records and elsewhere.

The 3rd head, 'How the personis that bear ecclesiasticall functionis ar admittat to thair offices', op. cit, 178-182. 10 Op. cit., 192.

" Kirk. op. cit., 92 n 271 for full references.

Quoted in G. D. Henderson The Scottish Ruling Elder (London [1935]), 189.

J.M. Ross , What is an Elder? (published by the Presbyterian Church of England [1949, rev. ed. 1955]), 13.

For the effect see Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (London [1967]) noting especially his judgment,'only in exceptionally favourable circumstances were they able to conjure up the eldership, and their enterprise has left very little trace behind it' (355), and for the varying theories and confusions of the reformers themselves, J. M. Ross, 'The Elizabethan elder' (Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society of England IX [1952-5], 59-70 and 126-138).

See the exellent account in R. S. Paul, The Assembly of the Lord (Edinburgh [1985]), 163-8.

This is copiously charted by G. D. Henderson, op. cit., passim.

John M'Kerrow , History of the Secession Church ( Edinburgh [1839]), 1, 146.

Henderson. op. cit. cites as the first case known to him, Savroch United Secession Church. 1837.

The New Testament Elder' (British and Foreign Evangelical Review) [April 1873], 201-28). The quotation is from p. 223.

Douglas Murray , 'High-church Presbyterianism in Scotland and England' (Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society ), 3.6 [May 1985], Essays in honour of R. Buick Knox, 225-234. esp. 232-4).

Max Thurian Priesthood and Ministry, Ecumenical Research (Eng. tr. London [1983]), 130.

G.D. Henderson Presbyterianism (Edinburgh [1954]), 71.