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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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both immediately before, and immediately after the Spirit had called them, a blessed people, goodly plants, trees of the Lords planting, Numb. 24. as may be seen in the Chapters of that story, especially, cap. 25. Hence unanswerably it must follow, A Church visible is a rightly and lawfully constitute Church, to the which we may join our selves as members, and yet it is a mixed multitude of godly and profane, circumcised and clean, uncircumcised and unclean. And Moses and the Prophets knew Israel to be thus mixed and rebuked them, and yet termeth them a married people to the Lord, Jer. 3. 14.
both immediately before, and immediately after the Spirit had called them, a blessed people, goodly plants, trees of the Lords planting, Numb. 24. as may be seen in the Chapters of that story, especially, cap. 25. Hence unanswerably it must follow, A Church visible is a rightly and lawfully constitute Church, to the which we may joyne our selves as members, and yet it is a mixed multitude of godly and prophane, circumcised and cleane, uncircumcised and uncleane. And Moses and the Prophets knew Israel to be thus mixed and rebuked them, and yet tearmeth them a married people to the Lord, Jer. 3. 14.
5. Argument.1 If the Church of the Jews was a truly constitute visible Church, a Church that did worship a God they knew, and of whom was salvation, Joh. 4. 22. in Christs days, and had Moses chair among them, and teachers on that chair whom Christ commanded to hear, and obey, Mat. 23 1, 2, 3. and was the Lords vineyard,