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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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1. Conclusion. We are to separate in the true visible Church, from all communion, wherein need-force we cannot choose but sin, suppose we separate not from the Church, Eph. 5. 11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, Col. 2. •1. Touch not, taste not, handle not, 2 Epist. John. Bid him not God speed, that bringeth another doctrine.
1. Conclusion. We are to separate in the true visible Church, from all communion, wherin need-force we cannot choose but sinne, suppose we separate not from the Church, Eph. 5. 11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of darkenesse, but rather reproove them, Col. 2. •1. Touch not, taste not, handle not, 2 Epist. John. Bid him not God speed, that bringeth another doctrine.
2. Conclusion, from the first conclusion it will follow, that a separation in part, I mean, in some acts of public worship, when we cannot choose but fall in sin, from a true Church is lawful, as we must separate from an idolatrous communion, where the bread is adored: for then the Lords Table is made an Idols Table, and yet we are not totally and wholly to separate from the Church and hearing of the word, and prayers and praises of that Church, as we shall hear.
2. Conclusion, from the first conclusion it will follow, that a separation in part, I meane, in some acts of publike worship, when we cannot chuse but fall in sin, from a true Church is lawfull, as we must separate from an idolatrous communion, where the bread is adored: for then the Lords Table is made an Idols Table, and yet we are not totally and wholly to separate from the Church and hearing of the word, and praiers and praises of that Church, as we shall heare.