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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. The common believers amongst the Jews had the power of the keys, as well as we, if Separatists teach right, for they had power to rebuke one another, Levit: 19. 17. and this to them is a part of the power of the keys,1 as Smith saith, they had power of ordination to lay hands on their officers, and the right of election, as they would prove from, Levit: 8. 2, 3. a place notwithstanding abused,2 for the congregation there is the Princes of the congregation, as it is a hundred times taken in the old Testament, else how could six hundred thousand persons, beside aged men, women and children lay hands on the officers? They did also excommunicate no less then our Church of believers, as they say,3 therefore their Church in the essence of a visible Church was every way as ours, except in some accidental ceremonies.
3. The common beleevers amongst the Iewes had the power of the keyes, as well as we, if Separatists teach right, for they had power to rebuke one another, Levit: 19. 17. and this to them is a part of the power of the keyes,1 as Smith saith, they had power of ordination to lay hands on their officers, and the right of election, as they would prove from, Levit: 8. 2, 3. a place notwithstanding abused,2 for the congregation there is the Princes of the congregation, as it is a hundred times taken in the old Testament, els how could six hundreth thousand persons, beside aged men, women and children lay hands on the officers? They did also excommunicate no lesse then our Church of believers, as they say,3 therfore their Church in the essence of a visible Church was every way as ours, except in some accidentall ceremonies.
- 1Smith paral▪ 60, 61