A37042:267
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal divided into four parts ... : in each of which there are not a few choice and useful questions, very shortly and satisfyingly discussed and cleared / by ... Mr. James Durham ... who being dead (by this) yet speaketh ; and published by John Carstares ... ; to which is prefixed an excellent preface of famous Mr. Blair ... ; together with a table of the contents of the several chapters of each part.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1659
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for so also Jews might have separated from particular Synagogues▪ or have chose times for their offerings and sacrifices distinct from others. Famous Cotton of New England, in his Holiness of Churchmembers, pag. 21. grants that there were many scandalous persons in the Church of the Jews. 2. He saith, that that was by the Priests defect, for they ought not to have been retained. And, 3. though he say that that will not warrant the lawfulness of admitting scandalous persons to the Church, yet he asserteth, that it may argue the continuance of their Church-estate notwithstanding of such a toleration; and if so, then it approveth continuing therein, and condemneth separation therefrom; and consequently a Church may be a Church, having the Ordinances in purity, and to be communicate in, notwithstanding of the former fault. 3. What hath been marked out of Learned Writers, for paralleling the constitution of the Church under the Gospel, with that under the Law in essential things, doth overthrow this objection; for now separation is as impossible as formerly.
for so also Jews might have separated from particular Synagogues▪ or have choosed times for their offerings and sacrifices distinct from others. Famous Cotton of New England, in his Holinesse of Churchmembers, pag. 21. grants that there were many scandalous persons in the Church of the Jews. 2. He saith, that that was by the Priests defect, for they ought not to have been retained. And, 3. though he say that that will not warrand the lawfulnesse of admitting scandalous persons to the Church, yet he asserteth, that it may argue the continuance of their Church-estate notwithstanding of such a toleration; and if so, then it approveth continuing therein, and condemneth separation therefrom; and consequently a Church may be a Church, having the Ordinances in purity, and to be communicate in, notwithstanding of the form•r fault. 3. What hath been marked out of Learned Writers, for paralleling the constitution of the Church under the Gospel, with that under the Law in essentiall things, doth overthrow this objection; for now separation is as impossible as formerly.