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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. But the death of the parents did not change their Church-state, for they were still the children of wicked parents, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness, and ⟨p. 167⟩that in Gods wrath, Hebrews 3.
Answ. But the death of the parents did not change their Church-state, for they were still the children of wicked parents, whose carcases fell in the wildernesse, and ⟨p. 167⟩that in Gods wrath, Hebrews 3.
2. Argument. 1If John Baptist Mat. 3. 5. baptized Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the regions round about, and that without any further examination of the aged, so they would confess their sins, and yet he called them a generation of vipers, and so the seed of murderers and evil doers, such as are vipers, and Christ said Mat. 18. that of their children, and such like was the Kingdom of God; then the children of Pharisees and Publicans and wicked persons are to be baptized, so their parents profess the doctrine of the covenant, but the former is true, Ergo.
2. Argument. 1If John Baptist Mat. 3. 5. baptized Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the regions round about, and that without any further examination of the aged, so they would confesse their sinnes, and yet he called them a generation of vipers, and so the seede of murtherers and evill doers, such as are vipers, and Christ said