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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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see for this what Arminius, Corvinus, and the Jesuit Bellarmine, Suarez and masques saith on the contrary. The notoriety of Ministers and professors sins,1 or their secrecy is all one, the sin defileth the man, and the mans worship, preaching and prayers to himself,2 but their sins do not an•ll, and make of no effect the ordinances of God,3 that are public, the prayer of the unconverted Minister is the prayer of the Church,4 and heard for Christs sake, howbeit the man himself be a taker of Gods name in vain,5 else infants baptised by an unconverted Pastor, were infidels, and yet unbaptized,6 if his sacraments administered by him in the state of sin be no ordinances of Christ, but abominations that defile others as well as himself. Thus the preaching of Scribes and Pharisees, the abominable slaves of hell, as concerning their conversation, were not to be heard, even while they sate on Moses chair, the contrary whereof Christ commandeth, Mat. 23. 2, 3, 4.
see for this what Arminius, Corvinus, and the Jesuite Bellarmine, Suarez and •asques saith on the contrary. The notoriety of Ministers and professors sinnes,1 or their secrecy is all one, the sinne defileth the man, and the mans worship, preaching and prayers to himselfe,2 but their sinnes doe not an•ll, and make of no effect the ordinances of God,3