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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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but this is a Church not assembled to prophesying and praying, but to rebuking, to judicial censuring by binding and loosing, where all private persons, as their witnesses, the offended brother, be they public, or be they private persons (yea suppose a woman otherwise forbidden to speak in the Church met for worship, 1 Cor. 14.) may speak in this Church, for a woman may offend, and be excommunicate, or be offended, for scandals betwixt woman and woman is to be removed.
but this is a Church not assembled to prophecying and praying, but to rebuking, to judiciall censuring by binding and loosing, where all private persons, as their witnesses, the offended brother, be they publike, or be they private persons (yea suppose a woman otherwise forbidden to speake in the Church met for worship, 1 Cor. 14.) may speake in this Church, for a woman may offend, and be excommunicate, or be offended, for scandals betwixt woman and woman is to be removed.
3. The Church spoken of here is such a superior and judicial seat,1 as ought to be obeyed in the Lord, under the pain of excommunication, and to whose voice and sentence coactive the contumacious is said to be disobedient,2 as [Greek or Hebrew] (and [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] to disobey in the holy tongues doth signify.3 But a multitude of believers are no such superior and judicial seat as may be obeyed,4 or disobeyed by inferiors,5 under the pain of excommunication,