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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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Our Brethren hold that the only true public visible Church in the New Testament is a Congregation of Believers joined together by a voluntary profession of Faith, and meeting in one place to worship God. They deny 1. That the word (Church) doth ever signify a Presbytery or Eldership. 2. They deny that there is any representative Church, properly so called, or that it hath the title of a Church in the New Testament. 3. They deny that there is any Provincial or National Church that can be called a visible politic body of Christ. 4. They deny any Church to have power of jurisdiction over a particular Congregation. For the decision of the present questions, these distinctions are to be observed,
OVr Brethren hold that the only true publick visible Church in the New Testament is a Congregation of Believers joyned together by a voluntary profession of Faith, and meeting in one place to worship God. They deny 1. That the word (Church) doth ever signifie a Presbytery or Eldership. 2. They deny that there is any representative Church, properly so called, or that it hath the title of a Church in the New Testament. 3. They deny that there is any Provinciall or Nationall Church that can be called a visible politique body of Christ. 4. They deny any Church to have power of jurisdiction over a particular Congregation. For the decision of the present questions, these distinctions are to be observed,
1. There be odds betwixt a Church visible, and a Church ministerial. 2. There be odds betwixt a Cathedral or mother Church (and this we deny) and a Church National and provincial, which cannot meet to the worship of God in all the particular members thereof. 3. The Church is termed representative three ways (as we shall hear) 1. properly, 2. commonly, 3. most properly. 4. Suppose the name of Presbyterial Church be not in the New Testament, yet if the thing it self be in it, it is sufficient.
1. There be odds betwixt a Church visible, and a Church ministeriall. 2. There be odds betwixt a Cathedrall or mother Church (and this we deny) and a Church Nationall and provinciall, which cannot meet to the worship of God in all the particular members therof. 3. The Church is termed representative three wayes (as we shall heare) 1. properly, 2. commonly, 3. most properly. 4. Suppose the name of Presbyteriall Church be not in the New Testament, yet if the thing it selfe be in it, it is sufficient.