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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
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Answ. Men may be a Church of Christians, and a mystical Church before they have a Ministry, but they are not a governing Church, having the power of the keys, so long as they want officers and stewards, who only have warrant ordinary of Christ to use the keys.
Answ. Men may be a Church of Christians, and a mysticall Church before they have a Ministery, but they are not a governing Church, having the power of the keyes, so long as they want officers and stewards, who only have warrant ordinary of Christ to use the keys.
3. He objecteth, God 1 Cor. 12. 28. hath set officers in the Church; Ergo, the Church is before the Officers, as the setting of a Candle in a Candlestick. presupposeth a Candlestick. The Church is the candlestick. Rev. 1. The officers candles, lights, stars
Answ. God hath put and breathed in man a living soul. Ergo, he is a living man, before the soul be breathed in him: friend your logic is naught. The Church is the Candlestick, not simply without Candles and Lamps: the Church ministerial is the Candlestick, and the Ministers the Candles set in the Church ministerial, as Eyes and Ears are seated, and all the seals are seated in a living man; Ergo, he is a living man before the senses be seated in him, it followeth in no sort. Because by the candles seating in the Church, the Church becometh a ministerial and governing Church: It is as you would say the Lord giveth the wife to the husband; Ergo. He is an husband before God give him the wife.
Answ. God hath put and breathed in man a living soule. Ergo, he is a living man, before the soule be breathed in him: friend your logick is naught. The Church is the Candlestick, not simply without Candles and Lampes: the Church ministeriall is the Candlestick, and the Ministers the Candles set in the Church ministeriall, as Eyes and Eares are seated, and all the seales are seated in a living man; Ergo, he is a living man before the senses be seated in him, it followeth in no sort. Because by the candles seating in the Church, the Church becommeth a ministeriall and governing Church: It is as you would say the Lord giveth the wife to the husband; Ergo. He is an husband before God give him the wife.