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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.
[figure] › Chapter 6 › Section 6: Touching Officers and their election.
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Touching Officers and their election.
Our Author laboureth to prove that Pastors and Doctors are different Officers, which we will not much improves, but if the meaning be, that they are inconsistent, in one man person, we are against him. 1. Because the Apostles in their own persons, and in feeding the flock, 2 Tim. 3. doth both under the name of Overseers and Bishops, and exercised both, as they could, according as they did find the auditory. 2. Because the formal objects the informing of the judgement, and exhorting are not so different, as that they should be incompatible, for if God give them gifts both for the Doctors Chair, and the pastors Pulpit, as he often doth, what should hinder but the Church may call one and the same man, to both the Pastor and the Doctors Chair, as he is able to, overtake both.
OUr Author laboureth to prove that Pastors and Doctors are different Officers, which wee will not much improves, but if the meaning be, that they are inconsistent, in one man person, wee are against him. 1. Because the Apostles in their owne persons, and in feeding the flock, 2 Tim. 3. doth both under the name of Overseers and Bishops, and exercised both, as they could, according as they did finde the auditory. 2. Because the formall objects the informing of the judgement, and exhorting are not so different, as that they should be imcompatible, for if God give them gifts both for the Doctors Chaire, and the pastors Pulpit, as hee often doth, what should hinder but the Church may call one and the same man, to both the Pastor and the Doctors Chaire, as hee is able to, overtake both.