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A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and…A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and…
A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland wherein our discipline is demonstrated to be the true apostolic way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the independency [sic] of particular congregations, in defence of ecclesiastical presbyteries, synods, and assemblies, are examined and tried / by Samuel Rutherfurd ...A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland wherein our discipline is demonstrated to be the true apostolick way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the indepencie [sic] of particular congregations, in defence of ecclesiasticall presbyteries, synods, and assemblies, are examined and tryed / by Samuell Rutherfurd ...
London: printed for John Bartlet, 1642London: printed for Iohn Bartlet, 1642
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CHAP. IV.
1Whether or no our brethren prove strongly, that the Church of believers is the first Church, having supreme jurisdiction above the Eldership.
- 1Quest. 4.
Master Parker of good memory, to prove that the Church of believers is above and superior to the ministerial Church of Bishops or Eldership, 11. Reasoneth thus. The member and the part is inferior in authority to the body, and the whole. But guides are members of the Church of believers: Therefore guides are inferior to the Church of believers: So saith the law, The part is contained in the whole. 2So Gerson, and the fathers of Basil, as Aeneas Silvius cited by Morton, 3prove the Pope to be inferior to a General Council, and that he must be judged by them. Answ. We deny not, but the guides as guides are inferior to ⟨p. 39⟩