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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 ...
London: printed for John Bartlet, 1642London: printed for Iohn Bartlet, 1642
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Let us hear shortly what our brethren say on the contrary.1 M. Best and others object, Those only are to receive the seal of the covenant, whose Parents, at least one of them, in external profession, are within the covenant; but infants borne of wicked and profane parents, are not borne of parents in external profession within the covenant,2 Ergo, the infants of wicked parents are not to receive the seal of the covenant. The proposition he proveth from Genes. 17. 10. This is my covenant, 3and every man-child amongst you shall be circumcised, and Rom. 4. 11. He received the sign of circumcision, 4a seal of the righteousness of Faith. The assumption he and others prove, 5because murderers, drunkards, swearers, and whose children we baptise, declare themselves not to be Christians, nor faithful, nor Saints by their wicked life, and so not within the covenant. This argument also the Separatists use.
Let us heare shortly what our brethren say on the contrary.1 M. Best and others object, Those only are to receive the seale of the covenant, whose Parents, at least one of them, in externall profession, are within the covenant; but infants borne of wicked and prophane parents, are not borne of parents in externall profession within the covenant,2 Ergo, the infants of wicked parents are not to receive the seale of the covenant. The proposition he proveth from Genes. 17. 10. This is my covenant, 3