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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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Answ. I deny that the sin of the worshippers infecteth the worship to others that are not guilty, it infecteth the worship to themselves, but not to others, a worship corrupt by accident only through the fault of the worshipper, may and doth make the Lords Supper damnation to the eater, and therefore the eater is forbidden so to eat; a worship in the matter and intrinsical principle unjust and sinful is defiled both to the man himself and to all that taketh part with him, as the teacher of false Doctrine and all that heareth and believeth are defiled, but if the sin of an unworthy communicant even known to be so be damnation to himself, and defile the worship to others, then Paul would have said, he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh his own damnation, and the damnation of the whole Church, and Paul should have forbidden all others to eat and drink withal, who communicateth unworthily, if he allowed separation, but he saith, he eateth and drinketh damnation, [Greek or Hebrew], to himself, not to all others.
Answ. I deny that the sinne of the worshippers infecteth the worship to others that are not guilty, it infecteth the worship to themselves, but not to others, a worship corrupt by accident only through the fault of the worshipper, may and doth make the Lords Supper damnation to the eater, and therefore the eater is forbidden so to eat; a worship in the matter and intrinsecall principle unjust and sinfull is defiled both to the man himselfe and to all that taketh part with him, as the teacher of false Doctrine and all that heareth and believeth are defiled, but if the sin of an unworthy communicant even knowne to be so be damnation to himselfe, and defile the worship to others, then Paul would have said, he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh his owne damnation, and the damnation of the whole Church, and Paul should have forbidden all others to eat and drinke withall, who communicateth unworthily, if he allowed separation, but he saith, he eateth and drinketh damnation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to himselfe, not to all others.
But fourthly, they urge thus, We must not only strive to rebuke, and censure one another, but we must not stay a member of that Church, in the which we are not permitted to do the duty that Christ hath commanded us, for the station and place is unwarrantable, where we are necessitated to sin, that is, to omit a duty of the Keys, that God hath given to all the faithful. Ergo, we must separate from that Church, where all the faithful may not use the Keys.