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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. A simple worshipping with hypocrites whom we know not is not a consent to their profanation of the holy things of God; Christs eating the Passover with Judas; the Disciples eating the Passover, when Christ said, One of you hath a Devil, one of you shall betray me, did not import consent, nor partaking with Judas his profaning of the Sacraments. 2. Neither hath God given to all believers the power of the keys that way, as is alleged. 3. Suppose the Eldership in whose hands only are the keys, should permit a known adulterer, who never professed his repentance therefore to the Lords Table; yet this were not in the Eldership ⟨p. 161⟩the sin against the Holy-Ghost, and to forfeit the Covenant, though it were a great sin.
Answ. A simple worshipping with hypocrites whom we know not is not a consent to their prophanation of the holy things of God; Christs eating the Passeover with Judas; the Disciples eating the Passeover, when Christ said, One of you hath a Devill, one of you shall betray me, did not import consent, nor partaking with Judas his prophaning of the Sacraments. 2. Neither hath God given to all beleevers the power of the keyes that way, as is alleadged. 3. Suppose the Eldership in whose hands onely are the keyes, should permit a knowne adulterer, who never professed his repentance therefore to the Lords Table; yet this were not in the Eldership ⟨p. 161⟩the sinne against the Holy-Ghost, and to forfeit the Covenant, though it were a great sinne.
9. They object, God commandeth the godly to plead with their mother, because (saith he) she is not my wife, nor I her husband, Ergo, if the Church turn a harlot, the children are to protest and plead against her, as reputing her no mother, and so they are to forsake her.
9. They object, God commandeth the godly to plead with their mother, because (saith he) she is not my wife, nor I her husband, Ergo, if the Church turne a harlot, the children are to protest and plead against her, as reputing her no mother, and so they are to forsake her.