TREATISE

ON

CHURCH GOVERNMENT.

FORMERLY CALLED

ANARCHY OF THE RANTERS, &c:

BEING A TWO-FOLD APOLOGY

FOR THE

CHURCH AND PEOPLE OF GOD,

CALLED, IN DERISION, QUAKERS.

WHEREIN

They are vindicated from those that accuse them of disorder and confusion on the one hand, and from such as calumniate them with tyranny and imposition on the other; shewing, that as the true and pure principles of the gospel are restored by their testimony; so is also the ancient apostolic order of the Church of Christ re-established among them, and settled upon its right basis and foundation.

BY ROBERT BARCLAY.

Phil. 2. 3. Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

o.c.

Heb. 13. 7. Remember them that have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN EPISTLE TO THE NATIONAL MEETING OF FRIENDS IN DUBLIN,

CONCERNING

Good Order and Discipline in the Church. BY JOSEPH PIKE.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SOLOMON W. CONRAD.

SECT. I. The Introduction and method of this

Treatise.

SECT. II. Concerning the ground and cause of

this controversy.

SECT. III. Whether there be any order or go-

vernment in the Church of Christ.

SECT. IV. Of the order and government we

plead for.

SECT. V. In what cases, and how far, this go-
vernment extends.

SECT. VI. How far this government extends in

matters spiritual, and purely conscien

tious.

SECT. VII. Concerning the power of decision.

SECT. VIII. How this government altogether

differeth from the oppressing and persecut-

ing principality of the church of Rome,

and other anti-christian assemblies.

The CONCLUSION.