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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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2. The Sacraments of the Jewish Church in substance were one and the same with our Sacraments, Heb. 13. 8. 1 Cor. 10. 1, 2, 3. Joh. 8. 56. Joh. 6. 50, 51. Col. 2. 11, 12. 1 Cor: 5. 7. all say this except▪ Papists, Anabaptists, Arminians and Socinians, and for notoriously wicked persons to use the Sacraments with profane and wicked hearts, was most unlawful and made them in that no members of the true Church, but as Sodom and Gomorrah, •s. 1. 10. as Ethiopians, Egyptians and Philistines, Amos 9. 7. and such were forbidden to take Gods covenant in their mouth, seeing they hated to be reformed, Psal. 50. 16, 17. Their prayers were abomination when their hands were bloody, Es: 1. 15. their Sacrifices like the murdering of a man, and the Sacrificing of a dog, which was abomination to God, Isa, 66. 3. and so are all the means they use, but I believe, if Christ was the Spouse, Priest, head of the body to the Church of the Jews, as to us, to the constitution of this body visibly worshipping him in a Church-state, there was required that the people should be not only typically holy, but really, and that God should be sanctified not only typically, but really, by real declaration of all that drew nigh to him, and the Song of Solomon saith, that the communion was moral, spiritual, beside that it was typical in some points.1 And this is direct contrary to their confession, where they make Separation from a corrupt Church moral, and to that separation of the godly from the wicked was taught of God, before the Law, under the Law, and under the Gospel, and they teach, That all true Churches from the beginning, to the end of the world are one in nature, and essential constitution: And would the Lord have these to receive the seals of his covenant, as true members typical of a typical Church: This they say is 1 To take the name of God in vain. 2. That the Lord doth seal unrighteousness. 3. That he profaneth his Sons blood and death: then a people laden with iniquity, a Sodom, a generation of Idolaters might all by Gods typical command, claim to the promises of the covenant, and they only.