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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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Shall it oblige the one way Ecclesiastically being preached, and not the other way being Synodically determined, because the people consenteth not? Certainly if power of preaching be a power of the keys, all that are silent to that which is preached give a consent to what is preached, for silence at the hearing of a vow, when it is lawful to speak is a consent, Numb. 30. ver. 14. Now it is lawful to any member of the Congregation, to speak against what is unsound in Doctrine publicly delivered, so it be spoken timeously: Hence it must follow that what tieth and obligeth as an act of the keys in preaching, tieth also when determined by the Eldership, suppose all the Congregation do not judge and determine judicially: I may say that by our Brethren's grounds, preaching is a public Ecclesiastic act of the keys, ⟨p. 51⟩and of the whole Church, for the Church preacheth by her Pastor, as by her mouth and servant receiving authority, and the keys to preach from the Church. Therefore all must give their consent to what is preached, else it is not the Word of God or to be judged and reputed to tie us to faith and obedience, no less then public acts of the Church, and this were strange, to say, the word preaching is not the word obliging ecclesiastically, except all believers women and children confirm it by their consent and suffrages judicial.
Shall it oblige the one way Ecclesiastically being preached, and not the other way being Synodically determined, because the people consenteth not? Certainly if power of preaching be a power of the keyes, all that are silent to that which is preached give a consent to what is preached, for silence at the hearing of a vow, when it is lawfull to speake is a consent, Numb. 30. ver. 14. Now it is lawfull to any member of the Congregation, to speake against what is unfound in Doctrine publickly delivered, so it be spoken timously: Hence it must follow that what tyeth and obligeth as an act of the keyes in preaching, tyeth also when determined by the Eldership, suppose all the Congregation doe not judge and determine judicially: I may say that by our Bretherens grounds, preaching is a publick Ecclesiastick act of the keyes, ⟨p. 51⟩