A57969:636
The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the…
The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the Church of Scotland ... by Samuel Rutherfurd ...
London: printed by E. Griffin for Richard Whittaker and Andrew Crook, 1644
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. A platform, as it is conceived, in such a stile, method, and characters, and words, is a humane ordinance, Tali •rie & ordine, and so is preaching; but we swear to no platform in that consideration; but a platform according to the truth contained in it, in which sense only it is sworn unto, is ⟨p. 138⟩the Word of God, as are systems of Divinity, sermons printed and Preached, and so though preaching be an Ordinanced God, as it is, Rom. 10. 14. yet according to the words, expression, dialect method, or doctrine, it is an humane ordinance; and so the Argument is against preaching as against our platform.
Answ. A platforme, as it is conceived, in such a stile, me•hod, and characters, and words, is a humane ordinance, Tali •rie & ordine, and so is preaching; but we sweare to no plat•orme in that consideration; but a platforme according to the truth contained in it, in which sense onely it is sworne unto, is ⟨p. 138⟩the Word of God, as are systemes of Divinity, •ermons printed and Preached, and so though preaching be an Ordinanced God, as it is, Rom. 10. 14. yet according to the words, expression, dialect method, or doctrine, it is an humane ordinance; and so the Argument is against preaching as against our platforme.
Our Brethren's second Argument is▪ The Platform abridgeth Christian liberty, to try all things, and so though it be some means of unity, yet it is a dangerous hinderance of some verity, binding men to rest upon their former apprehensions, and knowledge, without liberty to better their judgements.