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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. Because Ezech. 34. in a universal apostasy of the Prophets and shepherds, the Lord extraordinarily worketh, v. 11. For thus saith the Lord God, behold I, even I will both search my sheep, and seek them out. Now this is by Pastors, when the ordinary Pastors are all failed. So Rev. 11. in that universal Apostasy under Antichrist, when the Gentiles tread upon the utter Court of the Temple, and the holy City, God stirreth up two witnesses to prophecy in sackcloth; that is, some few Pastors (for two is the smallest number) and they prophecy, and are slain, and yet they rise again. We need not apply this to men in particular, as to John Hush, and ⟨p. 127⟩Jerome of Prague; but certainly, some few spake against Babylon, and they were borne down, and oppressed, and killed, and men of that same spirit rose and spake that same truth, as if the very two men who were slain, had risen within three days again.
1. Because Ezech. 34. in a universall aposta•ye of the Prophets and shepheards, the Lord extraordinarily worketh, v. 11. For thus saith the Lord God, behold I, even I will both search my sheep, and seeke them out. Now this is by Pastors, when the ordinary Pastors are all failed. So Rev. 11. in that universall Apostacye under Antichrist, when the Gentiles treade upon the utter Court of the Temple, and the holy City, God stirreth up two witnesses to prophecye in sack•loth; that is, some few Pastors (for two is the smallest number) and they prophecye, and are slaine, and yet they rise againe. We need not apply this to men in particular, as to John Hush, and ⟨p. 127⟩Jerome of Prague; but certainly, some few spake against Babylon, and they were borne downe, and oppressed, and killed, and men of that same spirit rose and spake that same truth, as if the very two men who were slaine, had risen within three dayes againe.