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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. The settled preaching of the Word established and remaining in a Church, as the standing candlestick, the fixed kingdom of God is the essential mark of the true Church, and preached in Gods blessed decree of Election only for, and to the chosen believers, and as it were in the bye to the profane reprobates amongst them, and this they cannot be able to improve. And it was M. Smiths vanity to say, the Reformed Churches have the Word, 1as the thief hath the honest mans purse. Anabaptists reason just that way. See Calvin.
2. The setled preaching of the Word established and remaining in a Church, as the standing candlestick, the fixed kingdome of God is the essentiall mark of the true Church, and preached in Gods blessed decree of Election only for, and to the chosen believers, and as it were in the bie to the prophane reprobates amongst them, and this they cannot be able to improove. And it was M. Smiths vanity to say, the Reformed Churches have the Word, 1as the thiefe hath the honest mans purse. Anabaptists reason just that way. See Calvin.
- 1Calv instruct. adversus liler•.
3. The preaching of the Word, and the seals of the settled covenant is a means of confirming those that are already converted: Neither is it much against us that the Word is preached to the reprobate; for the preaching of the Word is considered either in it self,1 and actu primo, and so it is a mark of the visible Church.2 Or. 2. As it is effectual by the Spirit of Jesus, and actu secundo, and so it is an essential mark of the true Church and lively body of Christ, according to that cited by Whittaker, Calvin, Willet, Paraeus, Beza, Ursine, Bucanus, and our Divines,