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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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4. What ever Church may excommunicate,1 every member thereof convened with the Church may inflict all inferior censures also;2 for whosoever may inflict judicially the greater punishment, may inflict the less; but all the members of the Church of believers may not in this assembled Church inflict lesser punishments: For example, a woman, a son, a servant, who are all equally the true members of the true Church of believers, being believing professors may not in an assembled Congregation rebuke publicly her husband and Pastor, his Father and Master: For public rebuking being a degree of teaching, and especially in the assembled Church, the Apostle ⟨p. 89⟩will not have the woman to teach publicly, and usurp authority over the man, nor any to exhort and rebuke in the Church but Pastors.
4. What ever Church may excommunicate,1 every member thereof convened with the Church may inflict all inferiour censures also;2 for whosoever may inflict judicially the greater punishment, may inflict the lesse; but all the members of the Church of beleevers may not in this assembled Church inflict lesser punishments: For example, a woman, a sonne, a servant, who are all equally the true members of the true Church of beleevers, being beleeving professors may not in an assembled Congregation rebuke publikely her husband and Pastor, his Father and Master: For publike rebuking being a degree of teaching, and especially in the assembled Church, the Apostle ⟨p. 89⟩will not have the woman to teach publikely, and usurpe authority over the man, nor any to exhort and rebuke in the Church but Pastors.
- 1Heb. 3. 7.
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