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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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CHAP. IX.
Q. 9. What members are necessarily required for the right and lawful constitution of a true politic visible Church, to the which we may join in Gods worship.
Q. 9. What members are necessarily required for the right and lawfull constitution of a true politicke visible Church, to the which we may joyn in Gods worship.
IT is maintained by these of the Separation,1 that the rightly constituted Church must consist of the Lords planting (as saith M. Barrow) all taught of God,2 all plants of righteousness,3 sons of Zion, precious stones, a redeemed people, a royal generation,4 so the Guide to Zion. The true visible Church (say the Separatists) is a company of people called and separated from the world, by the word of God,5 and joined together in a voluntary profession of the faith. So Separatists in their petit. Mr. Ainsworth,6 M. Can, the discovery of N. Light. For the clearing of the Question, we remit to the consideration of the Reader these distinctions.
IT is maintained by these of the Separation,