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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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3. So saith Ainsworth, this we hold, That Saints by calling are the only matter of a visible Church, yet withal we hold, 1that many are called, but few chosen. So also the kingdom of Heaven or visible Church is a draw net,2 wherein are good and bad fishes, a barn-floor, wherein are chaff and good wheat. See 1 Corinthians 1. 23. Colossians 1. 1, 2. Romans 1. 7. Philip. 1. 1. Math. 20. 16.
3. So saith Ainsworth, this we hold, That Saints by calling are the only matter of a visible Church, yet withall we hold, 1that many are called, but few chosen. So also the kingdome of Heaven or visible Church is a draw net,2 wherin are good and bad fishes, a barne-floore, wherin are chaffe and good wheat. See 1 Corinthians 1. 23. Collossians 1. 1, 2. Romans 1. 7. Philip. 1. 1. Math. 20. 16.
- 12 Tim 2. 20, 11.
- 2Ainsworth against Bernard separ. •ch. p. 174.