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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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The Jews give not so much as a virtual consent to the Marriage and the very external active calling and invitation to come to Christ, and all ministerial publishing of the news of salvation is removed from them, Acts 13. 46. but there is a virtual consent to the Marriage with Christ in Rome, and salvation there in the word, and some ministerial and pastoral publication thereof as in the seed. 2. Jews directly oppugn the Cardinal foundation of salvation, 1 Cor. 3. 11. Acts 4. 12. 1 Thes. 2. 15, 16. Christ Jesus, Papists profess him, and have his seals amongst them, especially baptism. 5. Rome in concreto, according to her best part, to wit, secret believers groaning and sighing in Egypts bondage is a true Church; but Rome in abstracto, the faction of Papists, as Papists, are no spouse of Christ, but the whore of Babel, and mother of fornications. 6. Howsoever ⟨p. 131⟩Rome be materially a true Church, having the material object of faith, the doctrine of the old and new Testament common with us, yet formally they are not one Church with us, but there is a real and essential separation betwixt us and them, as betwixt a true Church and an Antichristian Church, a spouse of Christ and no spouse; for faith relatively taken, faith of many united in one society doth essentially constitute a Church, and the formal object of their faith is the word of the Church, and of men, or Gods word as expounded by men, and our faiths object formal is the word of God, as the word of God, and so do formally differ. 7. Howbeit I say Rome is a Church teaching and professing, and hath something of the life and being of a true Church, yet I hold not that Rome is Christs body, nor his wife. Neither mean I with our late novators, Prelates and their faction sometimes in this Land, and now in England, that Rome is a true Church, as they taught, that is,1 so a true Church as, 1. We erred in separating from that leper whore. 2. That her errors are not fundamental,2