Paul Baynes, a Puritan divine, succeeded William Perkins "in the lecture at St. Andrews, Cambridge" (Darling, Cyclopaedia Bibliographica, p. 216).

Here Baynes answers three major questions concerning church government:

• First, Whether Christ did institute or the Apostles frame any Diocesan form of Churches, or parishional only?

• Second, Whether Christ ordained by himself, or by the Apostles, any ordinary Pastors, as our Bishops, having both precedence of order, and majority of power above others?

• Third, Whether Christ did immediately commit ordinary power ecclesiastical, and the exercise of it, to any one singular person, or to a united multitude of Presbyters?