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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.
Answ. Ordination, by your own grant, is more then Election, for the Apostles ordained, Acts 6. and must have done ⟨p. 199⟩the most, and the multitude elected the seven Deacons, Acts 6 2. Ordination is more then the installing of a person chosen, it is a supernatural act of the Presbytery separating a man to an holy calling, election is posterior to it, and is but an appropriation of a called person his Ministry, to such a particular flock.
Answ. Ordination, by your owne grant, is more then Election, for the Apostles ordained, Acts 6. and must have done ⟨p. 199⟩the most, and the multitude elected the seaven Deac̄ons, Acts 6 2. Ordination is more then the installing of a person chosen, it is a supernaturall act of the Presbytery separating a man to an holy calling, election is posterior to it, and is but an appropriation of a called person his Ministery, to such a particular flock.
3. Say they; Ordination may be performed by the Elders, where there be Elders, 1 Tim. 4. 14. yet it is an act of the whole Church, as 1the whole man seeth, but by the Eye.
- 1Quest. 21.