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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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2. It is hard that the offender should be excommunicated for not hearing and obeying the Congregation of believers, who are not [Greek or Hebrew], over him in the Lord.
2. It is hard that the offender should be excommunicated for not hearing and obeying the Congregation of believers, who are not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, over him in the Lord.
3. By grant of M. Parker the Church of believers hath not power from this place Mat: 18. to ordain pastors to themselves, when they want pastors, or to excommunicate their own Eldership in case of scandalous sins, which is against his grounds and our Brethren's principles, who ascribe this authority to the Congregation of believers, because a number of believers is not an Aristocratical part and a select Presbytery and Eldership, as he saith is meant in this word (tell the Church.)
3. By grant of M. Parker the Church of believers hath not power from this place Mat: 18. to ordaine pastors to themselves, when they want pastors, or to excommunicate their own Eldership in case of scandalous sins, which is against his grounds and our Brethrens principles, who ascribe this authority to the Congregation of believers, because a number of believers is not an Aristocraticall part and a select Presbytery and Eldership, as he saith is meaned in this word (tell the Church.)
14. The Church here cannot well mean a visible Congregation of believers and Elders convened to hear the Word preached,1 so as he who contemneth two private admonitions should be accused and censured in the face of the Congregation convened to hear Gods Word. Because the Church meeteth in Christs name for Gods worship, if they meet in faith and humble sense of sin, with purpose of heart to