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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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2. Ainsworth replieth, The Jewish Church consisted still, as Moses had ordained, Levit. 20. 24. of a people separated from the heathen, and were the children of the Prophets and covenant, Joh. 4. 9. Acts 3. 25. but your Church consisteth of an unseparated people? Answ. The Priest-hood was changed,1 Joh. 11. 51. Caiaphas was High-priest that year, against the Law (as Tollet observeth) for the High-priest,2 Exod. 28. 29. by the Law was High-priest till his dying day. But all was corrupted (saith Calvin,) and all bought and sold (saith Josephus:) this was as Anti-Mosaical as our reformers Ministry is Antichristian, if they had their calling only from Rome. ⟨p. 134⟩2. The Jewish Church consisted of men separated from heathen, who said stand back, I am holier then thou, Isaiah 65. but they were corrupters of the L•w, murderers of the Prophets and the heir Christ, Math. 21. hypocrites, will-worshippers, blind guides, blind people, &c.
2. Ainsworth replyeth, The Iewish Church consisted still, as Moses had ordained, Levit. 20. 24. of a people separated from the heathen, and were the children of the Prophets and covenant, Joh. 4. 9. Acts 3. 25. but your Church consisteth of an unseparated people? Answ. The Priest-hood was changed,