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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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5. Consideration. The essential ingredients and reasons of a lawful divorce are here. 1. we could not lye in one bed with that sometime sister Church of Rome, but our skin behoved to rub upon her botch-boil, and therefore we did separate from nothing but corruption. 2. There was there persecutions, and in that we are patients and ejected rather then departers on foot and horse. 3. A professed dominion over our consciences. 4. Necessity of receiving the mark of the beast, and so the plagues of the beast, to worship Images, and the work of mens hands, a necessity of professing fundamental errors, that subvert the foundation of faith, did all necessitate our separation.
5. Consideration. The essentiall ingredients and reasons of a lawfull divorce are here. 1. we could not lye in one bed with that sometime sister Church of Rome, but our skin behoved to rub upon her botch-boyle, and therfore we did separate from nothing but corruption. 2. There was there persecutions, and in that we are patients and ejected rather then departers on foot and horse. 3. A professed dominion over our consciences. 4. Necessity of receiving the marke of the beast, and so the plagues of the beast, to worship Images, and the worke of mens hands, a necessity of professing fundamentall errours, that subvert the foundation of faith, did all necessitate our seperation.
6. Consideration. The Church of believers might lawfully use justâ tutelâ aet•rnae salutis, a necessary defence for salvation, and forsake her corrupt guides and ⟨p. 124⟩choose others, and so we had the consent of the Church to the separation, and a voice from Heaven, Come out of her my people.
7. Consideration. A collateral and sister-Church, such as Rome ever was, is not said to separate from another; the lesser separateth alway from the greater, the member from the body. Where there is a schism, sister-Protestant Churches then cannot be said to separate one from another, nor can the crime of schism here be more objected to us then to Rome, but rather to Rome separating from Orthodox and right believing Rome.