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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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of that generation the Lord said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways, there was in them an evil heart, an hard heart, an unbelieving heart, ver. 13. 15, 18. and yet God commanded Joshua to circumcise their children, therefore there was no more required of the circumcised, but that they were Abraham's seed according to the flesh, and by that same reason there is no more required of infants that they may be baptized, but that they be borne in the christian Church, for the Christian baptism, and the Jewish circumcision in substance are all one. Rom. 6. 4. Col. 2. 11. Jer. 9. 26. Jer. 4. 4. 1 Pet. 3. 21, 22. This is so true, that circumcision is put for the Nation of the Jews, Acts 11. 2. Rom. 2. 26, 27. Gal. 2. 7. Gal. 6. 15. which speech could not stand, if most part of the children of the Jews, for the parents wickedness were to be uncircumcised: neither do we read in Gods word, that ever the children of wicked Jews were uncircumcised, and if their circumcision had been a profaning of the covenant, and dishonouring and polluting of the holy things of God, the Prophets who rebuked all the sins of that Nation, would not have passed in silence that which should have been a National sin in them: and as God determineth the quality of these that eat the Passover, that they be circumcised people, and so Jews, so doth he determine the quality of these that are to be externally circumcised, Gen. 17. every male child. Some answer that these infants, Josh. 5. circumcised, were the infants of parents dead in the wilderness, and so they were not now under the care and tutorage of their parents, but under the care of others, and so they might be circumcised.