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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 ...
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and I believe their acts of discipline, censures, and Sacraments, are valid, therefore the Church redeemed and builded on the rock Christ, is not the kindly subject of the keys. 2. The keys are given to professors clothed with a ministerial calling, whither they be believers or unbelievers, howbeit God giveth them for the salvation and edification of believers. 3. There is nothing required to make a independent Congregation, but an profession of the truth, covenant ways, and outward worshipping of God, suppose the members be unbelievers.
and I beleeve their acts of discipline, censures, and Sacraments, are valide, therefore the Church redeemed and builded on the rocke Christ, is not the kindly subject of the keyes. 2. The keyes are given to professors cloathed with a ministeriall calling, whither they be beleevers or unbeleevers, howbeit God giveth them for the salvation and edification of beleevers. 3. There is nothing required to make a independant Congregation, but an profession of the truth, covenantwayes, and outward worshipping of God, suppose the members be unbeleevers.
4. Conclusion. There is a visible governing Church in the new Testament, whose members in complete number of believers doth not meet in one place ordinarily for the worship of God, neither can they continually so meet. 1. The Church of Jerusalem was one Church, under one government, and called one Church in the singular number, which grew from one hundred and twenty, Acts 1. to three thousand one hundred and twenty, Acts 4. 41. and then added to these, Acts 4. 4. five thousand men, which is eight thousand one hundred and twenty. And Acts 9. 35. all that dwelt at Lydda and Sharon turned to the Lord, v. 42. many in Joppa believed in the Lord, Acts 20. 21. many thousands of the Jews believed,