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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. Because when the Church is overgone with heresy and Apostasy, our reformers in the exercise of their Ministry, were not to keep a certain flock as in a constitute Church, and suppose they had no calling but eminent gifts, they were to spread the Gospel to Nations, as Luther did, and suppose the people should resist them, as in many places they did; yet God called them, and they were not to expect election from people: So Cyprus and Cyrenus preached, Act. 11. and 18. and we read of no vocation that they had from either people or Apostle.1 So Origen preached to a people in a certain Town, where there was not one Christian, and afterwards he was chosen their Pastor.
2. Because when the Church is overgone with heresie and Apostacye, our reformers in the exercise of their Minestery, were not to keepe a certaine flocke as in a constitute Church, and suppose they had no calling but eminent gifts, they were to spread the Gospell to Nations, as Luther did, and suppose the people should resist them, as in many places they did; yet God called them, and they were not to expect election from people: So Cyprus and Cyrenus preached, Act. 11. and 18. and we reade of no vocation that they had from either people or Apostle.1 So Origen preached to a people in a certain Town, where there was not one Christian, and afterwards he was chosen their Pastor.
- 1Origen, Homil 11. i• Num. 18.
As for the Church of Rome, suppose our Reformers have their calling thence, yet have we a true Ministry and there was a Church in Rome before the Lateran Council, which could constitute a true Ministry, as I clear in these distinctions, for the Church of Rome it hath these parts.