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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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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, Ezech. 20. 18, 19. v. 22. v. 36, 37. v. 42, 43. Psal. 106. v. 40, 45, 46, Rom. 3. 3. Lev. 26. 44, 45. spoken of the sons of wicked parents, and if these children stand in the covenant, for Gods names sake, and God say expressly, Ezech. 20 18, 19. to the sons of wicked parents who grieved his holy spirit in the wilderness: walk in my statutes and walk not in the statutes of your fathers, I am the Lord your God, then ⟨p. 168⟩they were in covenant notwithstanding of the wickedness of their fathers, and therefore by our brethren's argument, the seals of the covenant should be bestowed upon them.
3. Argument. 1