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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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5. They object, 1A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, and so a scandalous sinner not censured, maketh the whole Church an infected lump, therefore we are to separate from that Church, if they go on, except we would be leavened: So Robinson, Ainsworth, Smith, Can, object.
5. They object, 1A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, and so a scandalous sinner not censured, maketh the whole Church an infected lump, therfore we are to separate from that Church, if they goe on, except wee would be leavened: So Robinson, Ainsworth, Smith, Canne, object.
- 1Robinson. •insworth. Smith. M. Can.Robinson. •insworth. Smith. M. Canne.
Answ 1. There is a double infection, one physical as leaven, that by touching leaveneth, and pest-clothes that by touching defile the air or mens bodies: the comparison holdeth not in this, I am sure. There is a moral infection by evil example, and so the incestuous Corinthian, not excommunicated, did infect, if any should use his company as a brother and member of the Church; of this latter sort, the place 1 Cor: 5. is to be understood. The incestuous man would infect, if the guides and the Apostles spirit should ••t cast him out: Hence it is true that Church guides, in not excommunicating, did what was in them morally, to infect and leaven the Church: but 1. It followeth not ⟨p. 156⟩that the Church was actu secundo, and actually infected, howbeit, no thanks to the guides. 2. It followeth not that they should separate from a Church that might infect, because that is not Gods mean of eschewing infection to leap out of one true Church to another for one fault.