The right of church members to chuse their own overseers stated from the scriptures: Being the abstract of discourse on Acts I. 21, 22, 23.Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptsim of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness, with us of his resurrection. And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. Published at the desire of some of the hearers. By James Hog minister of the Gosepl at Carnock.

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Printed in the year 1717