07.All of the antediluvian Patriarchs
All of the antediluvian Patriarchs were themselves also Presbyters In Vol. XXIII:13 of his Works, Owen says that antediluvian Presbuteroi Abel and Enoch and Noah in Heb 11:2-7 were "Seniores." Now Owen would certainly agree (XIX:412-25) that also the New Testament Church should sing the Psalter. See Psa 22:22 & Heb 2:9-12.
So, very presbyterianly, Psa 105:22 speaks of "Princes" and "Senators" - of Saaraayv and Zeqeenaayv in the original Hebrew; of "Archontas" and "Presbuterous" in the 270 B.C.
Greek Septuagint; and of Principes and Senes in Jerome’s 400 A.D. Latin Vulgate.
Again presbyterianly, also Psa 107:32 enjoins the Members of the Church of the Lord in all ages to "exalt Him also in the Congregation [or the Church] of the people, and praise Him in the Assembly of the Elders." Here, the inspired Hebrew has bi-Qehal ’am uu-be- Mooshav Zeqeeniym; the Septuagint has "en Ekkleesiai laou kai en Kathedrai Presbuteroon"; and the Vulgate has in Ecclesia plebis et in Cathedra Seniorem. As Rev. Dr. John Owen himself states (XXIII:25-28), "from the foundation of the world there was...the Church in all ages.... Abel...obtained witness that he was righteous.... This was so famous in the Church, that he seems commonly to be called by that name ’the righteous Abel’; as he is by our Saviour, speaking of him, Mat 23:35.... The good fame and report that Abel had in all generations...is...common to him with Noah, Abraham, and all the Patriarchs. They were spoken of, and their praise celebrated in the Church not less than Abel’s." In Heb 11:2-7, continues Owen (XXIII:29-33), after Abel, "Enoch...is the second man unto whom testimony is personally given that he ’pleased God’.... This Enoch lived...three hundred years...and ’walked with God.’ To ’walk with God’ is to lead a life of faith in covenant obedience unto God." Later, "his rapture was visible in the sight of many that feared God who were to be witnesses of it unto the world - that it might be his ordinance for the conviction of sinners and the strengthening of the faith of the Church." The third example among the Elders in Heb 11:2-7, is Noah. Explains Owen (XXIII:52f): "Of this faith of Noah...the immediate effect was the saving of his family...for the continuation and propagation of a Church.... In this saving of the family of Noah by the ark, we have a figure of God’s saving and preserving a remnant in all ages, when desolating judgments have destroyed apostasized Churches and Nations. So the Apostle Peter declares, with respect unto the vengeance and overwhelming destruction that was coming on the apostasized Church of the Jews: 1Pe 3:20-21.... [Yet] the visible, professing Church shall never fall into such an apostasy nor be so totally destroyed but that God will preserve a remnant."