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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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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 Mat. 18. that of their children, and such like was the Kingdome of God; then the children of Pharisees and Publicans and wicked persons are to be baptized, so their parents professe the doctrine of the covenant, but the former is true, Ergo.
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3. Argument. 1If Peter, Acts 2. 38, 39. command every one of the Jews to be baptized by this argument, because the promise (saith he) is made to you, and to your children, and to as many as the Lord shall call, then all are to be baptized, to whom the promise of the covenant, and external calling by this covenant is made, but the promise of the covenant is made to the seed of the wicked within the visible Church, Ergo the seal of that promise is to be conferred upon them, I prove the assumption. When God said to Abraham, I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed, by the seed of Abraham he cannot mean the nearest of Abraham's seed only, to wit, the nearest sons, for so by that, he should have been Abraham's God, and Isaacks God only, and not Jacob's God, and the God of the seed of Jacob, which is against the tenor of the covenant, now if God be the God of Abraham's seed far off, and near down, to many generations, the wickedness of the nearest parents cannot break the covenant, as is clear,