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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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CHAP. X.
Quest. 10. Whither or no it be lawful to separate from a true Church visible, for the corruption of teachers, and the wickedness of Pastors and professors, where Faith is begotten by the preaching of professed truth?
Quest. 10. Whither or no it be lawfull to seperate from a true Church visible, for the corruption of teachers, and the wickednesse of Pastours and professours, where Faith is begotten by the preaching of professed truth?
That we may the more orderly proceed, these distinctions are to be considered, as making way to clear the question.
THat we may the more orderly proceed, these distinctions are to be considered, as making way to cleare the question.
1. There is a separation in the visible Church, and a Separation out of, and from the visible Church. 2. There is a Separation total and whole, from any visible communion with the Church; or partial and in part, from a point of Doctrine or practise of the Church in a particular only. 3. There is a Separation negative, when we deny the practise of an error with silence, or refuse public communion with the Church, but do not erect a new Church within the Church. There is a separation positive, when we do not only refuse practise of errors, and protest and plead against them, but also erect a new visible Church. 4. As there is a three-fold communion, 1. in Baptism, 2. in hearing of the Word, 3. in communicating with the Church at the Lords Supper, so there is a three-fold separation answerable thereunto. 5. The influence of a worship corrupt may either be thought to come from the persons with whom we worship, or 2. from the matter of the worship, if corrupt, and that either, 1. by practise, or 2. by not practising something that an affirmative commandment of God impasseth on us. 6. A communion in worship either implieth a consent