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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 the word of God and so the contract of Marriage is professed amongst them, and so there is an external active calling there, and the word of the covenant sounding amongst them, and a passive calling also, because many secretly believe and obey. 3. Many fundamental truths are taught that may beget faith, and so there are true and valid pastoral acts in that Church. 2. I say there is an hid and invisible Church and Temple in Rome, and these God warneth to come out of Babel, and these we by writings cry unto, that they would forsake their harlot mother, and worship the Lord in truth, and they obey, howbeit they dare not profess the truth. But the teaching Church teaching Popery and fundamental truths, and obtruding them upon the consciences of others, is not the believing Church, and so not the spouse and body of Christ. 3. Rome now compared with Pauls Rome which he did write unto, is no Church, no spouse, as a whorish wife compared with her self in her first month to her Husband, while she was chaste, is now, when she embraceth the bosom of a stranger, no wife, and yet Rome compared with Indians who worship Satan, with Persians who worship ⟨p. 130⟩the Sun, with the Egyptians who worshipped gods growing in their gardens, as Onions and Garlic, for so Juvenal, O sanctas gentes quibus haec nascuntur in hortis Numina. I say,1 being compared with these, they are the Lords Temple, 2 Thes. 24. Rev. 18. 4. and his Wife, as (one saith well) apostate Israel compared with Syrians, Philistines is counted Gods people, having the true God for their God, 2 King. 5. 8, 15, 17. But being compared with Judah which ruled with God, and was faithful with the Saints, is called no wife, but an harlot, Hose 2. 2, 5. & 4. 15. & 5. 3, 4. 4. Rome jure and merito, in her bad deserving to her Lord, is no wife, no Church, no spouse, no people in covenant with God, and yet de facto and formally in possession, in profession, and for matrimonial tables which she keepeth is a Church, and differeth from the Jews, as a Church and no Church. 1. Because albeit the Jews have the old Testament, which implicitly and by interpretation is the covenant, yet they want two things which Rome hath which destroyeth the essence of a true Church. 1.