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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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The eighth and last is, if Rome be materially a Church, having in it the Doctrine of faith, or if formally it be no Church, having no professed faith that hath the nature of faith.
The eighth and last is, if Rome be materially a Church, having in it the Doctrine of faith, or if formally it bee no Church, having no professed faith that hath the nature of faith.
Hence shortly I say, The Court of Rome as Popish, is the falling-sickness of the Church, not the Church. But the same Court teaching something of Christ, baptism, good-works, &c, hath something of the life and being of a Church, howbeit she be not a whole Church, her skin being leprous, pocky and polluted.
Hence shortly I say, The Court of Rome as Popish, is the falling-sicknesse of the Church, not the Church. But the same Court teaching something of Christ, baptisme, good-works, &c, hath something of the life and being of a Church, howbeit she be not a whole Church, her skinne being leprous, pocky and polluted.
1. Because in a Church that is no Church, there cannot ⟨p. 129⟩be a true feel of Gods covenant, but in the Court of Rome there is true baptism; for we baptize not again children once baptized there; some of the Separation called it Idol-baptism, and no baptism, which is Anabaptism, for then all converted Papists must be baptized again, no less then converted Turks and Jews; But 1. The covenant is there, Come out of her my people: then their baptism confirmeth this covenant. 2. Circumcision even in apostate Israel is true circumcision, her barns the Lords barns,