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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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But secondly, they thus urge, to stay a member of a leavened Church, and keep Church-communion with that infected Church, is to tempt God, therefore God calleth you to separate from that Church.
But secondly, they thus urge, to stay a member of a leavened Church, and keepe Church-communion with that infected Church, is to tempt God, therfore God calleth you to separate from that Church.
I answer 1. To stay a member of that Church wholly leavened, and where the matter of the worship is leaven, and fundamental points corrupted and obtruded upon the conscience, is to tempt God, for then I keep communion with a leavened Church, as leavened, such as is Babel: but the assumption now is false, and the case not so here, but to keep my self and remain a member of a Church leavened in part with one sin, and to take no part with the sin, and yield no consent thereunto is no tempting of God; Paul joined as a member with the Church of Corinth, and acknowledged them as a Church, and commanded ⟨p. 157⟩to keep Church fellowship with them, 1 Cor: 5. 4. even when this leavened lump was souring amongst them.
I answer 1. To stay a member of that Church wholly leavened, and where the matter of the worship is leaven, and fundamentall points corrupted and obtruded upon the conscience, is to tempt God, for then I keepe communion with a leavened Church, as leavened, such as is Babell: but the assumption now is false, and the case not so here, but to keep my self and remain a member of a Church leavened in part with one sin, and to take no part with the sinne, and yeeld no consent therunto is no tempting of God; Paul joyned as a member with the Church of Corinth, and acknowledged them as a Church, and commanded ⟨p. 157⟩to keepe Church fellowship with them, 1 Cor: 5. 4. even when this leavened lump was souring amongst them.