03.00. Warrant, Nature and Duties of the Office of the Ruling Elder

An Essay on the
Warrant, Nature and Duties of the Office of the Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church by Samuel Miller, D.D.

Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N.J.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introductory 2. Testimony from the Order of the Old Testament Church.

3. Evidence in Favor of the Office from the New Testament Scriptures 4. Testimony of the Church Fathers 5. Testimony of the Witnesses for the Truth during the Dark Ages 6. Testimony of the Reformers, and Other Learned and Disinterested Witnesses, Nearly Contemporary with Them 7. Testimony of Eminent Divines since the Time of the Reformers 8. Ruling Elders Absolutely Necessary in the Church 9. The Nature and Duties of the Office 10. Distinction between the Offices of the Ruling Elder and Deacon 11 The Qualifications Proper for this Office 12.. On the Election of Ruling Elders 13. Of the Ordination of Ruling Elders

14. Of the Resignation of Ruling Elders;--Their Removal from One Church to Another;--And the Method of Conducting Discipline against Them 15. Advantages of Conducting this Discipline on the Presbyterian Plan http://bpc.org/reading_room/books/miller/ruling_elder.html