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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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6. The Keys may be thought to be conferred by Christ, immediately,1 either by the immediation of Christs free donation and gift or or by the immediation of simple designation:2 in the former respect the keys were given by Christ once to the Apostles; and still to the Worlds end,3 to the Church guides, immediately without the Churches power intervening: in the later respect Christ giveth the keys mediately, by the popular consent and election of the Church of believers,4 who do under Christ design and choose this person rather than that person, Thomas rather than John, for the sacred office of wielding the Keys, neither ⟨p. 3⟩is any man now elected immediately by Christ,5 as the Apostles were.
6. The Keyes may be thought to be conferred by Christ, immediately,1 either by the immediation of Christs free donation and gift or or by the immediation of simple designation:2 in the former respect the keyes were given by Christ once to the Apostles; and still to the Worlds end,3 to the Church guides, immediately without the Churches power intervening: in the later respect Christ giveth the keyes mediately, by the popular consent and election of the Church of believers,4 who doe under Christ designe and choose this person rather than that person, Thomas rather than John, for the sacred office of weelding the Keyes, neither ⟨p. 3⟩