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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 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.
But fourthly, they urge thus, We must not onely 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 doe the duty that Christ hath commanded us, for the station and place is unwarrantable, where we are necessitated to sinne, that is, to omit a duty of the Keyes, that God hath given to all the faithfull. Ergo, we must separate from that Church, where all the faithfull may not use the Keyes.
Answ. 1. Also if the power of the Keys be in the hands of the people, as some teach, so as they are under a commandment of God to rebuke authoritatively, and judicially to censure and excommunicate, their universal ⟨p. 158⟩omission of that duty seemeth to be sinful; and (howbeit I be loath to teach Separation) I see not how the authors who give the power of the keys to all private Christians, are not to separate from all Churches where Presbyterial government is, no less then the strictest Separatists do•.
Answ. 1. Also if the power of the Keys be in the hands of the people, as some teach, so as they are under a commandement of God to rebuke authoritatively, and judicially to censure and excommunicate, their universall ⟨p. 158⟩omission of that duty seemeth to be sinfull; and (howbeit I be loath to teach Separation) I see not how the authours who give the power of the keyes to all private Christians, are not to separate from all Churches where Presbyteriall government is, no lesse then the strictest Separatists do.