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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 ...
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11. They object, 1The Ministry of the Gospel should be as the holy flock,2 as the flock of Jerusalem in their solemn feasts, that the oblation might be sanctified; but when the people is a confused profane multitude, they are not the oblation of the Lord, and so not the Church that we can remain in to, and offer such lamed sacrifice to God in our prayers?
11. They object, 1The Ministery of the Gospell should be as the holy flocke,2 as the flocke of Jerusalem in their solemne feasts, that the oblation might be sanctified; but when the people is a confused prophane multitude, they are not the oblation of the Lord, and so not the Church that we can remaine in to, and offer such lamed sacrifice to God in our prayers?
- 111. Object.
- 2Ezech 36, 38. So Ainsworth.
Answ. The same will follow in their Churches, where Minister and professors being whited walls, and painted hypocrites, though not known to others: A scabbed sacrifice is offered to God, and that hypocrites ⟨p. 159⟩are in the Church always, we and they agree and teach jointly. 2. What though the people be profane and known to be a bad sacrifice, seeing they profess the truth, shall they be excluded from the prayers of the Church, and none offered to God in the prayers of the Church, but only believers? shall not these be offered in prayer to God, who are yet unconverted? what meaneth that petition then (Thy Kingdom come) is it not a prayer of the Churches for the non-converted.