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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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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, 1 Tim. 6. 14. and so he saith himself, 1 Tim. 3. 15. These things I write that thou mayest know how to behave thy self in the Church, Gerson: Bucer. These were written for ages to come, 1so the Refutator of Tilen, and our own Rollock, and so the Fathers, Oecumenus say, he setteth down the sum of Ecclesiastic Discipline. 2So Chrysostom, Augustine, Enthim: Cyrillus.
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 feare that the Apostles in working of miracles should partake of other mens sinnes, and that the ordinary laying on of hands, such as this was, did not give the Holy Ghost is cleare, 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 plat-forme of Church government to be keeped unviolably to the second comming of Christ, as is cleare,