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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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13. And we have here for us the testimony of learned Parker, 1who is otherwise against us in this plea,2 who confesseth our Thesis, 3that in these words (tell the Church) Christ doth understand the Presbytery or Eldership. Hence the word Church in the New ⟨p. 95⟩Testament doth not always signify the Church of Believers, Disciples, Brethren, who pray in Christs name and are heard in Heaven, and are builded on the Rock, and are the body and spouse of Christ, for a number may be and often is, an Eldership judicially excommunicating, and a Presbytery, yea and also including some externally professing Christ, who are not a company of redeemed ones, built by saving faith upon the Rock Jesus Christ. Also it is insolent that the word Church here should signify both precisely the Eldership, and also in that same vers: the whole Congregation of believers; because the same Church to the which the offended brother should put in his bill of complaint, is that very Church which must be heard, and obeyed under the pain of excommunication.
13. And we have here for us the testimony of learned Parker, 1who is otherwise against us in this plea,2 who confesseth our Thesis, 3that in these words (tell the Church) Christ doth understand the Presbytery or Eldership. Hence the word Church in the New ⟨p. 95⟩Testament doth not alwayes signifie the Church of Believers, Disciples, Brethren, who pray in Christs name and are heard in Heaven, and are builded on the Rocke, and are the body and spouse of Christ, for a number may be and often is, an Eldership judicially excommunicating, and a Presbytery, yea and also including some externally professing Christ, who are not a company of redeemed ones, built by saving faith upon the Rocke Jesus Christ. Also it is insolent that the word Church here should signifie both precisely the Eldership, and also in that same vers: the whole Congregation of believers; because the same Church to the which the offended brother should put in his bill of complaint, is that very Church which must be heard, and obeyed under the pain of excommunication.