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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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4. Argument.1 If the Lord show mercy to the thousand generations of them who love him, and keep his commandments, then the wickedness of the nearest parents, do not remove the mercy of the covenant from the children, because the mercy extendeth to the thousand generations: But the former is said, Exod. 20. in the second commandment, and therefore for the sins of their nearest parents, they are not excluded from the mercy of the covenant, and therefore neither from the seals of that mercy. If our brethren say, we have no assurance of faith, that their thousand generation upward hath been lovers of God and keepers of his commandments, and so the children in faith cannot be baptized.
4. Argument.1 If the Lord shew mercy to the thousand generations of them who love him, and keepe his commandements, then the wickednesse of the nearest parents, doe not remove the mercy of the covenant from the children, because the mercy extendeth to the thousand generations: But the former is said, Exod. 20. in the second commandement, and therefore for the sinnes of their nearest parents, they are not excluded from the mercy of the covenant, and therefore neither from the seales of that mercy. If our brethren say, we have no assurance of faith, that their thousand generation upward hath been lovers of God and keepers of his commandements, and so the children in faith cannot be baptized.
- 14. Arg.
I answer first, by this argument you cannot deny baptism to them in faith.
I answer first, by this argument you cannot deny baptisme to them in faith.