The Bible contains the religion of Protestants. It is the only infallible, and the sufficient rule of faith and practice. Even if Prelacy were found unequivocally represented as existing, by the Fathers, in fifty years after the last Apostle, yet if it be not found in the Bible, as it assuredly is not, such testimony would by no means establish its apostolic appointment. It would only prove that the Church was very early corrupted. We know, indeed, that no such testimony exists; but if it did, as long as we have the Bible, we ought to reject it.

“The Government of the Presbyterian Church” by Samuel Miller quoted in Paradigms in Polity: Classic Readings in Reformed and Presbyterian Church Government, 94.