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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. 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.
4. He objecteth. That it is senseless, that a Minister may be sent as a Minister, to the hidden number not yet called out, which are also his st•ck potentially, not actually; as Mr. Bernard saith, because it is the property of a good shepherd, to call his own sheep by name. Joh. 20. also it is a logical error, that a man may have a• actual relation to a stock potentially, it is as if a man were a husband because he may have a wife.
4. He objecteth. That it is senseles, that a Minister may be sent as a Minister, to the hidden number not yet called out, which are also his stck potentially, not actually; as Mr. Bernard saith, because it is the property of a good shepheard, to call his own sheep by name.