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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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Sixthly, 1they say, The Church of God is defiled, Hag. 2. 14, 15. Ezech. 44. 7.2 If all Infants promiscuously be baptized; for then the people and every work of their hand, and their offering is unclean. So M. Best.
Sixthly, 1they say, The Church of God is defiled, Hag. 2. 14, 15. Ezech. 44. 7.2 If all Infants promiscuously be baptized; for then the people and every worke of their hand, and their offering is uncleane. So M. Best.
- 1Object. 6.Obiect. 6.
- 2Best Church plea, p. 63.
Answ. We deny that children borne within the visible Church are an unclean offering to the Lord, and that the baptizing of them polluteth the Nation, and all the worship of the Nation, as they would gather from Haggai: For being borne of the holy Nation, they are holy with a federal and national holiness, Rom. 11. 16. If the root be holy so are the branches: For our brethren baptize children of Parents who are hypocrites and unbelievers, and so the uncircumcised in heart come into the Sanctuary: Yea Peter in baptizing Simon Magus, and Ananias and Sapphira brought in the uncircumcised in heart and the strangers to Gods covenant, as Best allegeth from