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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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3ly. That this person was during life, &c. The Argument brought against it is no Scripture, but humane Prudence from experience: so Mr. Hooker. To which I say, keep out but superiority of power, and the danger is avoided: and no doubt while the Churches kept that out, this form of government carried on things very well. You cannot then charge me with being cross to Scripture in my opinion.
2ly. Since you cannot prove me so, then I prove my sense from the practice of the primitive Churches, of which we have the Histories, which to me is of great force in proving the sense of a Text, that seems very fair, and have no other Scripture to contradict that sense: how much the Histories of them speak of a single person, who is ignorant? and that during life. Ambrose (or whoever it was, as ancient as he) in his Comment on the 4 Ephes. speaks home to the point, see Thes. Salmar. p. 3. p. 299.
3ly. By the Seven Epistles to the Churches, I find him in his Primacy, do you prove it was but for one or two Sessions, not during his life. Certainly that Angel was well known in the Church to whom Christ wrote: in some Churches commending him, in others discommending; though its true, the Epistles concerned the whole Church.