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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
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.
1. Because we are not to distinguish where the Law doth not distinguish, 1because this distinguishing is unknown to the Scripture,2 which never giveth the keys to the believers.3
1. Because we are not to distinguish where the Law doth not distinguish, 1because this distinguishing is unknowne to the Scripture,2 which never giveth the keyes to the beleevers.3
- 11 Arg.
- 2Reguta •uris Non distinguendi• ubi Lex. non distingui•.
- 3Parker de Pol. l. c. 8. n. 4.
2. The comparison which Parker fetcheth from the Parisians,1 holdeth not. Sight is in the eye, as the instrument, but it is principally and originally from the whole man, for the whole man seeth by the eye. The authority of the Church is as the soul in the whole body (as Bridgesius saith) and in every member of the body:2 Howbeit it doth not exercise the power in every member, but it seeth by the eye, and heareth by the ear, so the power of the keys is in all, and every one of the faithful, but it exerciseth some Acts ministerial, as preaching, baptizing in the guides, and other are Acts in other members of the body, but the power is in all.