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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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2. The Lord termeth the children of those who slew their sons to Molech, and so offered them to Devils, to be his sons, Ezech. 16. 20. Moreover thou hast taken my sons and my daughters, which thou hast borne to me, and these hast thou sacrificed to them to be devoured: is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, v. 21. That thou hast slain my children, &c. So Ezek. 23. 37. If they be the Lords sons, and borne to the Lord, howbeit their Parents were bloody murderers, and sacrificers to •Divels; then God esteemed these sons within the covenant, and who are we to exclude them out of Gods covenant?
2. The Lord tearmeth the children of those who slew their sonnes to Molech, and so ostered them to Divels, to be his sonnes, Ezech. 16. 20. Moreover thou hast taken my sonnes and my daughters, which thou hast borne to me, and these hast thou sacrificed to them to be devoured: is this of thy whooredomes a small matter, v. 21. That thou hast slaine my children, &c. So Ezek. 23. 37. If they be the Lords sonnes, and borne to the Lord, howbeit their Parents were bloody murtherers, and sacrificers to •Divels; then God esteemed these sonnes within the covenant, and who are we to exclude them out of Gods covenant?
3. The sons of most wicked Parents dying in their i• fancy may be saved, and of them God hath his own chosen, as we see in many aged ones borne of wicked Parents. Ergo, the wickedness of the Parents is a weak ground to say they are without the covenant, especially seeing we affirm, God hath his decrees of Election and Reprobation of infants,