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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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5. Argument. 1The infallible promise of the covenant, I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed: which is made to us Gentiles, as well as to the Jews, Gal. 3. 10, 11, 12, 13. must make a difference betwixt the seed of Christians, and the seed of Turks and Pagans, and these that are without the true Church of Christians. But if so, that the sins and wickedness of the nearest parents cut off their children, from the mercy of the covenant, and hinder God to be their God; then these infants are in no ⟨p. 169⟩better case through the covenant made to their grandfathers and generations upward, then the sons of Turks and Pagans; for they are strangers to the covenant, and have no right to the seals of the covenant, no more then the children of Turks. I prove the proposition (I will be thy God and the God of thy seed) extendeth the covenant to the seed of the faithful to many generations downward, until it please the Lord to translate his Sons Kingdom, and remove the candlestick from a people; Neither can the meaning be, (I will be thy God and the God of thy seed, except the nearest parents of thy seed be unbelievers,) for that is contrary to the Scriptures above cited. Neither can they say, that the children of unbelieving parents borne within the christian Church, have right to the covenant and the seals thereof, when they come to age, and do believe and repent, for so the children of Turks, if they believe and repent have that same right, as is clear, Isaiah 56. 6, 7. Acts 10. 34, 35.
5. Argument. 1The infallible promise of the covenant, I will be thy God, and the God of thy seede: which is made to us Gentiles, as well as to the Jewes, Gal. 3. 10, 11, 12, 13. must make a difference betwixt the seed of Christians, and the seed of Turks and Pagans, and these that are without the true Church of Christians. But if so, that the sinnes and wickednesse of the nearest parents cut off their children, from the mercy of the covenant, and hinder God to be their God; then these infants are in no