---
title: 'Primary Principles of Presbyterian Polity'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Richard Clark Reed'
date: 1889-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 24'
- 'Acts 20'
- 'Acts 14'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/reed-1889-primary-principles-of-presbyterian-polity
---

# Primary Principles of Presbyterian Polity

Discusses the 'negro question' and sectional church tensions, and expounds Presbyterian polity—arguing elders' scriptural continuity and plural governance in congregations.

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