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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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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.
The word Church is not taken here, 1. For the Temple or House where God is worshipped. 2. Neither for four or five that worship God ordinarily within the walls of a Family, Rom. 16. 5. Salute the Church at their House, 11 Cor. 16. 19. Philem. v. 2. It is termed Kahal, that is in the old Testament rendered Synagogue, 2and Kahal rendered Ecclesia. And Kahal, Deut. 5. 22. or Hehillah, 3