Does this say what Calvin says after a fashion?
Calvin (on Matthew 18:17): “Christ instituted no new thing, but follows the custom observed in the church of His own nation.”[1] Again, “he had respect unto the form of discipline received among the Jews, […] which was in the power of the elders, the representatives of the church.”[2] The same was the judgment of Beza, Junius, Whitaker, Cartwright, Brightman, Bucanus.
Objecting to Bellarmine, Whitaker says,
Calvin (on Matthew 18:17): “Christ instituted no new thing, but follows the custom observed in the church of His own nation.”[1] Again, “he had respect unto the form of discipline received among the Jews, […] which was in the power of the elders, the representatives of the church.”[2] The same was the judgment of Beza, Junius, Whitaker, Cartwright, Brightman, Bucanus.
Objecting to Bellarmine, Whitaker says,
Non est tale aliquod discrimen. Nam et veterest quando congregabantur, tum vocabantur; et nos cum vocamur, in Ecclesiam congregamur. Eadem veteris novaeque; Ecclesiae substantia fuit.