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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 ...
London: printed for John Bartlet, 1642London: printed for Iohn Bartlet, 1642
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2. Consideration. The faithful before Luther, the Albigenses, Waldenses and others, yea the Roman Doctors themselves holding the fundamental points with some hay and stubble builded upon the foundation made a negative Separation from Babylon▪ and did neither hold, nor profess their gross Idolatries, and other fundamental errors, howbeit they did not hold them positively, by erecting a new Church, because the separation was then in the blade, and not ripe for the Harvest.
2. Consideration. The faithfull before Luther, the Albigenses, Waldenses and others, yea the Romane Doctors themselves holding the fundamentall points with some hay and stubble builded upon the foundation made a negative Separation from Babylon▪ and did neither hold, nor professe their grosse Idolatries, and other fundamentall errours, howbeit they did not hold them positively, by erecting a new Church, because the separation was then in the blade, and not ripe for the Harvest.
3. Consideration. We hold that Rome made the Separation from the Reformed Churches, and not we from them, as the rotten wall maketh the schism in the house, when the house standeth still and the rotten wall falleth.
3. Consideration. We hold that Rome made the Separation from the Reformed Churches, and not we from them, as the rotten wall maketh the schisme in the house, when the house standeth still and the rotten wall falleth.
1. Because we left not Christianity in Rome, but the leprosy of Popery growing upon Christianity, seeing we kept the Apostolic faith, and did positively separate from the pokes, blybes, and ulcers of Christian Rome.