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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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Our second Argument,1 If Gods Prophets and people were never commanded to separate from the public worship, but commanded to come up to Jerusalem and worship, pray, sacrifice with Gods people, Deut. 12, 11, 12, 13. Deut. 15. 19, 20. Deut. 16. 7, 8. v. 16, 17. And yet that people was a crooked and perverse generation, Deut. 32. 5. not his children, provokers of God to jealousy with strange gods, sacrificers to Devils, ver. 16, 17. their works for bitterness like the clusters and grapes of Sodom, ver. 32. a people that had neither eyes nor ears, nor heart to understand God, Deut. 29, 3, 4. stiff necked, foolish, proud, murmurers, idolaters, &c. Then the sinfulness of the worshippers defileth not the worship, and we are not to separate from the worship for the wickedness of the worshippers. But the former is Scripture, Ergo separate we cannot upon this pretence. The proposition is sure, for God cannot both command his people to come and worship publicly with his people, and then also forbid them, because for the wickedness of the worshippers, they were to abstain. Also 2. It will follow that the people should not have gone to Shiloh when God commanded them to sacrifice with Eli's sons,2 because they committed filthiness with the women at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, because Eli's sons wickedness made men to abhor the Lords sacrifice.
Our second Argument,1 If Gods Prophets and people were never commanded to separate from the publike worship, but commanded to come up to Ierusalem and worship, pray, sacrifice with Gods people, Deut. 12, 11, 12, 13