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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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Q. Whether or no some do warrantably teach, that the power of the Keys is essentially and originally in the Church of Believers, and in the Church-guides only at the second hand, and in the by, quoad exer•itium, so as the Church of Believers should be the mistress delegating the keys by an inbred and kindly authority, and the Church-guides as her proper servants and delegates do borrow the use and exercise of the keys from the foresaid Church of Believers?
Q. Whether or no some doe warrantably teach, that the power of the Keyes is essentially and originally in the Church of Beleevers, and in the Church-guides only at the second hand, and in the by, quoad exer•itium, so as the Church of Believers should be the mistresse delegating the keyes by an imbred and kindly authority, and the Church-guides as her proper servants and delegats do borrow the use and exercise of the keyes from the foresaid Church of Believers?
The tenet of these, with whom we now dispute is that all the power of the keys is given by Christ to the multitude of Believers, as to the first fountain, and that this power is derived and jested by the multitude ⟨p. 53⟩of believers to such and such persons to be used and exercised by them, as the servants both of Christ and the Church: For the clearing of the question and trying if this distinction be law-biding. These distinctions are to be observed.
THe tenent of these, with whom we now dispute is that all the power of the keyes is given by Christ to the multitude of Believers, as to the first fountaine, and that this power is derived and gested by the mulmultitude ⟨p. 53⟩of believers to such and such persons to be used and exercised by them, as the servants both of Christ and the Church: For the clearing of the question and trying if this distinction be law-biding. These distinctions are to be observed.