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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. That is extraordinary, which is against the ordinary corruptions, wicked and superstitious forms of an ordinary calling: so, in this sense, Luther and our reformers calling was extraordinary.
4. That is extraordinary, which is against the ordinary corruptions, wicked and superstitious formes of an ordinary caling: so, in this sense, Luher and our reformers calling was extraordinary.
2. Dist. A calling immediately from God, and a calling from God, some way extraordinary, are far different. An immediate ⟨p. 207⟩calling often requireth miracles to confirm it, especially the matter being new, yet not always; John Baptists calling was immediate, his Sacrament of Baptism beside the positive order of Gods worship, yet he wrought no miracles, but an extraordinary calling may be, where there is an immediate and ordinary revelation of Gods Will, and requireth not miracles at all.
2. Dist. A calling immediately from God, and a calling from God, some way extraordinary, are farre different. An immediate ⟨p. 207⟩calling often requireth miracles to confirme it, especially the matter being new, yet not alwayes; John Baptists calling was immediate, his Sacrament of Baptisme beside the positive order of Gods worship, yet hee wrought no miracles, but an extraordinary calling may be, where there is an immediate and ordinary revelation of Gods Will, and requireth not miracles at all.
3. Dist. Though ordinarily in any horologe the higher wheel should move the lower, yet it is not against ordinary art, that the horologe be so made as inferior wheels may move without the motion of the superior. Though by ordinary dispensation of Gods standing Law, the Church convened in a Synod should have turned about Hus, Wicliff, Luther, to regular motions in orthodox Divinity; yet it was not altogether extraordinary, that these men moved the higher wheels, and laboured to reform them. Cyprian urged Reformation, Aurelius Bishop of Carthage, Augustin and the African Bishops did the like, the Bishop of Rome repining thereat It is somewhat extraordinary that Reformation should begin at Scholars, and not at principal Masters.