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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.
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.
3. A Church may be so called by anticipation, as Hos. 12. Jacob served for a wise; or formally, because it is constituted in its whole being.
4. A Ministry is a Ministry to these, who are not as yet professors, but only potentially members of the Church.
4. A Ministery is a Ministery to these, who are not as yet professors, but only potentially members of the Church.
1. Concl. There is a Church of believers sometime before there be a ministerial Church. 1. Because a company of believers is a mystical Church, for which Christ died, Eph. 5. 25. And such there may be before there be a settled Ministry. As there is a house, before there be a Candlestick, because conversion may be by private means, as by reading and conference; yea a woman hath carried the Gospel to a Land, before there was a Ministry in it. 2. Adam was first and Eve by order of •ature a Church created of God, before there was a Ministry; So Adams Ministry is founded upon a nature created according to Gods Image.
1. Concl. There is a Church of believers sometime before there be a ministeriall Church. 1. Because a company of believers is a mysticall Church, for which Christ died, Eph. 5. 25. And such there may be before there be a setled Ministery. As there is a house, before there be a Candlestick, because conversion may be by private meanes, as by reading and conference; yea a woman hath carried the Gospell to a Land, before there was a Ministery in it. 2. Adam was first and Evah by order of ature a Church created of God, before there was a Ministery; So Adams Ministery is founded upon a nature created according to Gods Image.