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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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2. Castalio calleth this with good warrant, 1The Senate of Elders, Chrysost: and Hugo Cardinalis, a College of Presbyters,2 Junius saith, it is all one with the Church, Mat: 18.
2. Castalio calleth this with good warrant, 1The Senate of Elders, Chrysost: and Hugo Cardinalis, a Colledge of Presbyters,2 Iunius saith, it is all one with the Church, Mat: 18.
- 1Castal•o in l•c. Chrysost Hug. Cardinal.
- 2Junius Thes. The•l. dis. 47 Thes 2.
But thirdly, we deny not but there was an extraordinary laying on of hands by the Apostles by which the Holy Ghost was given, Act: 8. 18. But this is the laying on of the hands of the Apostles, as Presbyters, which is ordinary, and is limited, and ruled by the Word, and must not be done suddenly, 1 Tim. 5. 22. now no such rule is laid upon the miraculous laying on of hands, there is no fear that the Apostles in working of miracles should partake of other mens sins, and that the ordinary laying on of hands, such as this was, did not give the Holy Ghost is clear, Act: 14. 3. The Elders layeth hands on Paul and Barnabas, who before had received the Holy Ghost, Act: 9. 17. 3. This answer is against the nature of this Epistle, where Paul setteth down a plot-form of Church government to be kept unviolably to the second coming of Christ, as is clear,