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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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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.
7. Arg. 1If the root be holy, so also are the branches, Rom. 11. 16. Now this holinesse cannot be meant of personall and inherent holinesse; for it is not true in that sense, if the fathers and fore-fathers be truly sanctified and beleevers, then are the branches and children sanctified and beleevers, the contrary wherof we see in wicked Absalom borne of holy David, and many others: Therfore this holinesse must be the holines of the Nation, not of persons; it must be an holines, because of their elected and chosen parents the Patriarches and Prophets, and the holy seed of the Iewes: and so the holinesse federall, or the holinesse of the covenant. If then the Iewes in Pauls time were holy by covenant, howbeit for the present the sons were branches broken oft for unbeliefe: 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 holinesse of the chosen Nation, and holinesse externall of the covenant, notwithstanding the father and mother were as wicked, as the Iews who slew the Lord of glory.