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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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I answer, God keepeth a legal way with Turks and all that are without the Church, and covenant of grace, and we suppose the child borne of wicked parents to be in the case of election, and so really within the covenant, ⟨p. 170⟩and it is ordinary enough that chosen and redeemed infants be born of unbelieving parents, in that case who can say that God layeth their fathers iniquities on them in spiritual and eternal punishments, such as is to be reputed without the covenant, and dying in that estate, to be damned for ever.
I answer, God keepeth a legall way with Turks and all that are without the Church, and covenant of grace, and we suppose the child borne of wicked parents to be in the case of election, and so really within the covenant, ⟨p. 170⟩and it is ordinary enough that chosen and redeemed infants be born of unbelieving parents, in that case who can say that God layeth their fathers iniquities on them in spirituall and eternall punishments, such as is to be reputed without the covenant, and dying in that estate, to be damned for ever.
7. Arg. 1If the root be holy, so also are the branches, Rom. 11. 16. Now this holiness cannot be meant of personal and inherent holiness; for it is not true in that sense, if the fathers and fore-fathers be truly sanctified and believers, then are the branches and children sanctified and believers, the contrary whereof we see in wicked Absalom borne of holy David, and many others: Therefore this holiness must be the holiness of the Nation, not of persons; it must be an holiness, because of their elected and chosen parents the Patriarchs and Prophets, and the holy seed of the Jews: and so the holiness federal, or the holiness of the covenant. If then the Jews in Pauls time were holy by covenant, howbeit for the present the sons were branches broken oft for unbelief: much more seeing God hath chosen the race and Nation of the Gentiles, and is become a God to us and to our seed, the seed must be holy with holiness of the chosen Nation, and holiness external of the covenant, notwithstanding the father and mother were as wicked, as the Jews who slew the Lord of glory.