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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. The major is false; for God is in covenant with six believers before they swear a Church-covenant, and so all the promises are made to them, and yet by your grant, they are not a Church. Yea all these agree to the invisible Church, and every single member thereof. 2. Without officers, believers may not separate themselves from the world, and come out of Babel, ⟨p. 181⟩by a positive and authoritative separation, to erect a new Church without pastors, or in an ordinary way; though as Christians they may separate from Rome, negatively and touch no unclean things. 3. We send none to Jerusalem and Babylon to seek a Church yet, but except we fall unto the Tenets of Anabaptists, Socinians and Arminians: we must send farther then to every house, where three believers are, to seek such as have warrant from Christ to administrate the seals of grace, except you in casting down Babel, build Jericho, and raise up a Tower of confusion, and evert the ministerial order that Christ hath appointed in his Church.
Answ. The major is false; for God is in covenant with six believers before they sweare a Church-covenant, and so all the promises are made to them, and yet by your grant, they are not a Church. Yea all these agree to the invisible Church, and every single member thereof. 2. Without officers, believers may not separate themselves from the world, and come out of Babel, ⟨p. 181⟩by a positive and authoritative separation, to erect a new Church without pastors, or in an ordinary way; though as Christians they may separate from Rome, negatively and touch no uncleane things. 3. We send none to Ierusalem and Babylon to seeke a Church yet, but except we fall unto the Tenets of Anabaptists, Socinians and Arminians: wee must send farther then to every house, where three believers are, to seeke such as have warrant from Christ to adminstrate the seales of grace, except you in casting downe Babel, build Iericho, and raise up a Tower of confusion, and evert the ministeriall order that Christ hath appoynted in his Church.