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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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3. Argument. 1If Paul do not only not command separation in the Church of Corinth, but also command and approve their meeting together in Church-communion, 1 Cor. 5. 4. 1 Cor. 11. 18, 20, 21, 22. 1 Cor. 14. 23. 1 Cor. 16. 2. where there was schisms and contentious, 1 Cor. 1. 12, 13. envying and strife, 1 Cor. 3. 3. incest, and incest tolerated, such as is not named amongst the Gentiles, 1 Cor. 5. 1. going to law with their brethren for gain before Infidels, 1 Cor. 6. Harlotry, v. 15, 16. Eating at the Idols-Table, 1 Cor. 8. Keeping fellowship with Devils, 1 Cor. 10. 20, 2, 22. coming to the Lords Table drunken, 1 Cor. 11. 21. eating and drinking damnation, v. 29, 30. A denying of a fundamental point of faith, the resurrection of the dead, and that with scoffing at it, 1 Cor. 15. 35. Murdering of weak souls, whom Christ had dyed for, 1 Cor. 8. 12, 13. Pauls name despitefully traduced, 2 Cor. 10. 8, 9. &c. Then it ⟨p. 142⟩