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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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I answer: Then two or three faithful ones in the Church of the Jews, no less then in the Christian Church were a true visible Church, having the power of the keys. This is contrary to their own doctrine, who make a typical and ceremonial cleanness sufficient to constitute the Jewish Church; but require a ⟨p. 162⟩real, true, and spiritual holiness, to the constitution of the Church of the New Testament: For if the children may plead with the mother for want of spiritual chastity and marriage-love to her Lord, and for that contend against her, to separate from her, as from a harlot and non-Church, then is real holiness required for the constitution of a visible Church amongst the Jews, as amongst us, which Separatists deny.
I answer: Then two or three faithfull ones in the Church of the Jewes, no lesse then in the Christian Church were a true visible Church, having the power of the keyes. This is contrary to their owne doctrine, who make a typicall and ceremoniall cleannesse sufficient to constitute the Jewish Church; but require a ⟨p. 162⟩reall, true, and spirituall holinesse, to the constitution of the Church of the New Testament: For if the children may plead with the mother for want of spirituall chastity and marriage-love to her Lord, and for that contend against her, to separate from her, as from a harlot and non-Church, then is reall holinesse required for the constitution of a visible Church amongst the Jewes, as amongst us, which Separatists deny.