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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.
4. They object, when the Church hath no Officers, the prime grave m•n perform ordination; as Nu•. 8, The Israelites laid on Hands on the Levites, that is, some prime Man laid on hands.
4. They object, when the Church hath no Officers, the prime grave m•n performe ordination; as Nu•. 8, The Israelites layd on Hands on the Levites, that is, some prime Man layd on hands.
Answ. Israel wanted not Officers. 2. These prime Men are called the Congregation; Ergo, there is a representative Church.
5. They object; If B lievers may not ordain, it shall follow either that Officers may minister without ordination, against the Scripture, 1 Tim. 4. 14. Heb. 6. 1. or, by virtue of ordination received in another Church, they might minister. Now if this be, we establish an i•d•l•ble character of Papists, but if being called to another Church, there be need of a new Election, then there is need of a new ordination, for that dependeth upon this; Ergo, then ordination cometh by succession, but we see not what authority ordinary officers have to ordain Pastors to a Church, whereof themselves are not members.