This has already been proved by experience, and confirmed also by the authority of the Lord himself, when he established an aristocracy bordering on popular government among the Israelites, keeping them under that as the best form, p2
"Owing, therefore, to the vices or defects of men, it is safer
and more tolerable when several bear rule, that they may thus mutually assist, instruct, and admonish
each other, and should any one be disposed to go too far, the others are censors and masters to curb
his excess."p1
@jarbitro Calvin's Institutes are a “ holy doctrine which no man might speak against” - Geneva Council: November 1552 - Patterson is not a Calvinist and unbeliever, heretic!!!