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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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2. If this comparison hold well, as every member of the body liveth, and is denominated a living thing (howbeit every member be not an eye, or an ear) by the information of the soul: so every toe and finger liveth by the enacting of the soul, actu primo, and moveth and groweth actu secundo: so must every believer in the body of Christ, Man and woman be actu primo, and essentially a ministerial part and office-bearer having authority from Christ, and also actu secundo, exercise some ministerial acts; for such as is the nature of the act, such is the nature of the power, and such as is the power, such is the act. If the power be ministerial, so is the act: If the act be not ministerial (as it cannot be in these only that are believers, especially women and children) so neither is the power.
2. If this comparison hold well, as every member of the body liveth, and is denominated a living thing (howbeit every member be not an eye, or an eare) by the information of the soule: so every toe and finger liveth by the inacting of the soule, actu primo, and moveth and groweth actu secundo: so must every beleever in the body of Christ, Man and woman be actu primo, and essentially a ministeriall part and office-bearer having authority from Christ, and also actu secundo, exercise some ministeriall acts; for such as is the nature of the act, such is the nature of the power, and such as is the power, such is the act. If the power be ministeriall, so is the act: If the act be not ministeriall (as it cannot be in these onely that are beleevers, especially women and children) so neither is the power.
3. The whole man seeth by the eye, heareth by the ear,1 but the believers see by their own eyes (as they must live by their own faith) and not with the Pastors eyes, neither do they grow by that soul of grace by which the Pastor groweth.
3. The whole man seeth by the eye, heareth by the eare,1 but the beleevers see by their owne eyes (as they must live by their owne faith) and not with the Pastors eyes, neither doe they grow by that soule of grace by which the Pastor groweth.