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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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9. The Church here is those to whom the keys are given,1 Mat. 16. 19. I will give to thee the keys, whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; but here the keys are given to Peter, and in him, to the Apostles, and those to whom he said, Joh. 20. Whose sins ye forgive, they are forgiven, and whose sins ye retain, they are retained; for that is to bind and loose in heaven, as they should bind, and loose on earth; and to whom he said (As my Father sent me, so send I you) but this Christ said to the Church of the Apostles and Elders, for he hath not sent every believer as his Father sent him, for that is a Pastoral sending, as is clear from Mat. •8. 18. All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Hence he draweth a conclusion, v. 19. Go therefore and teach, &c. Which clearly includeth the keys and power of preaching, baptizing, and governing, which agreeth not to all believers in any tolerable sense:2 As Theophilact, Chrysostom, Cyril, August. Hieron. Cyprian teach, and that ⟨p. 91⟩this place, Joh. 20. (As my Father sent me, so send I you) cannot be common to all believers, the Fathers teach Theophilact▪ in loc.
9. The Church here is those to whom the keyes are given,1 Mat. 16. 19. I will give to thee the keyes, whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; but here the keyes are given to Peter, and in him, to the Apostles, and those to whom he said, Joh. 20. Whose sinnes ye forgive, they are forgiven, and whose sinnes ye retaine, they are retained; for that is to binde and loose in heaven, as they should bind, and loose on earth; and to whom he said (As my Father sent me, so send I you) but this Christ said to the Church of the Apostles and Elders, for he hath not sent every beleever as his Father sent him, for that is a Pastorall sending, as is cleare from Mat. 8. 18. All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Hence he draweth a conclusion, v. 19. Goe therefore and teach, &c. Which clearly includeth the keyes and power of preaching, baptizing, and governing, which agreeth not to all beleevers in any tollerable sense: