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![[*]](./images/perspective/default_icon.gif) posted on 11/20/2007 at 09:19 AM |
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Captains and Courts - by the Rev. Dr. Ray R. Sutton
Bishop Ray Sutton is an esteemed Reformed minister who
has published a number of books.
He wrote a good little book (about 100 pages), titled Captains and Courts. But up until now, the book has been unpublished and generally
unavailable. You may recognize the title of this book, since I have quoted from it extensively in a couple recent threads on this forum.
After years of keeping the book unpublished, Dr. Sutton has given me permission to make this book available for free download off my website. There
are already some pdf copies of this book floating around the world via email, but this copy is greatly cleaned up, much better suited for reading and
printing. To my knowledge, this is the first time Dr. Sutton's book, Captains and Courts, has been made available to the general public as an
online resource.
Without further ado, here is Dr. Suttons book, for your reading pleasure:
Captains and Courts
Enjoy! 
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| posted on 11/20/2007 at 02:37 PM |
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It's gonna take some time for me to read but thanks for posting this.
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| posted on 11/20/2007 at 08:12 PM |
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The book appears to be interesting. I just started reading it. Thanks for posting it.
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| posted on 3/6/2008 at 08:34 PM |
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Has anybody on here taken the time to read this book yet?
If so, what are your thoughts about it? Are you convinced that the Bible teaches us to have an Episcopalian form of Church government? If not, why
not?
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| posted on 3/7/2008 at 11:01 AM |
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I have not read it yet, but it is on my list, or at least in the back of my mind. I do believe that the Bible teaches an "episcopal like" system of
church goverment. The quesiton is (not haveing read the book) how close the Anglican/REC/ECUSA models are to that system.
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| posted on 3/7/2008 at 03:54 PM |
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Sorry, it is not on my list (it is all filled up right now), what *is* on my list is to read Owen and Edwards and try to glean how and why they were
congregationalists. If you know any good resources on that, I'd be very interested.
Mike Bradley
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MrMerlin777
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| posted on 5/27/2009 at 05:58 PM |
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Thought I'd mention here that I've read through the reasoning in this and it pretty much has me convinced that episcopal church government is
biblical.
I had no real problems as a Presbyterian understanding the arguments and it seems to me episcopal church polity (properly administered) nessecarily
includes a form of presbyterian polity as well.
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