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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 ...
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The Church of believers have no authority Ecclesiastical, nor power of the Keys, if all the Pastors on earth were removed from the Church by Death, and in that case the Keys should indeed be only in Christs-hand, and the case being extraordinary, Christ behoved extraordinarily, to supply the want of ordination, which Timothy, Titus, and other Elders doth ordinarily give, for the Church of believers could not give that which they have not, and yet Bellarmines Keys are fleeing Keys, for he hath no cause to say, when the Pope dieth; The Keys flee to Heaven, for there are living many thousand Pastors and Elders who have the Keys suppose the Pope died, and never lived again.
The Church of beleevers have no authority Ecclesiasticall, nor power of the Keyes, if all the Pastors on earth were removed from the Church by Death, and in that case the Keyes should indeed bee only in Christs-hand, and the case being extraordinary, Christ behoved extraordinarily, to supply the want of ordination, which Timothy, Titus, and other Elders doth ordinarily give, for the Church of beleevers could not give that which they have not, and yet Bellarmines Keyes are •leeing Keyes, for he hath no cause to say, when the Pope dieth; The Keyes flee to Heaven, for there are living many thousand Pastors and Elders who have the Keyes suppone the Pope died, and never lived again.
10. Parker reasoneth thus, 1If Peter stand up, Acts 2. in sign of reverence (as standing is in Scripture, Numbers. 16. 9. 1. •hro. 19. 11. Ezec. 44. 11. John 3. 29.) before the multitude of believers, then he acknowledged their authority above his; But Peter did the former,