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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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Answ. 1. This is no local separation commanded the Corinthians, 1as Erasmus Sarcerius observeth, but a separation in affection, and if it were a local separation, it is from the Idol-table of the Gentiles, at which some did eat at Corinth to the great offence of the weak, 1 Cor. 8. 10. 1 Cor. 10. 17, 18, 19, 20. but from this is badly concluded separation out of the Church of Corinth, or any other true Church, where the word and sacraments are in purity, suppose some errors be practised by some: Paul borrowed this place from Isa. 52. 11. as Calvin thinketh,2 where the Lord chargeth the people to come out from Babylon, seeing Cyrus had proclaimed liberty to them to come home, and applieth it to the case of Corinth, that they should fly all fellowship with Idols, and Idols temples and tables, 1 Cor. 8. 10. because light and darkness, Christ and Belial cannot agree, as he citeth from Ezech. 37. Ezech 43. 7. Levit. 26. in the former verse, 3as Marlorat teacheth. Now this separation in Corinth was in a Church from the Idolatry in it, which separation we allow, but not a separation out of a Church, else the words would bear that Paul will have them to forsake the Church of Corinth, for idolatrous tables in it, and set up a new Church of their own, which the Separatists dare not say, and is contrary to other places, 1 Cor. 5. 4. 1 Cor. 11.