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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. We did not separate from the Western Churches, either collective or representatively gathered in a general Council.
2. We did not separate from the Westerne Churches, either collective or representatively gathered in a generall Councell.
3. We departed not from a National, Provincial or Parishonall Church, or Pastors that we had before, nor from the material Temples and Churches, except that some not very considerable hirelings and idol-pastors ⟨p. 123⟩would not go before us.
3. We departed not from a Nationall, Provinciall or Parishonall Church, or Pastors that we had before, nor from the materiall Temples and Churches, except that some not very considerable hyrelings and idoll-pastours ⟨p. 123⟩would not goe before us.
4. And because the succession of fundamental truths from generations to generations, is as necessary as the perpetual existence of the true Catholic Church, while the covenant with night and day and the ordinances of Heaven shall continue, Jer: 31. 37. therefore there were a succession of professors and members of the Catholic Church that did ever hold these fundamentals, which we to this day hold against Rome; suppose Histories cannot clear the particular persons by name.
4. And because the succession of fundamentall truths from generations to generations, is as necessary as the perpetuall existence of the true Catholick Church, while the covenant with night and day and the ordinances of Heaven shall continue, Jer: 31. 37. therfore there were a succession of professours and members of the Catholick Church that did ever hold these fundamentals, which we to this day hold against Rome; suppose Histories cannot cleare the particular persons by name.