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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO THE HONOURABLE And truly Noble Lord, Earle of Lindsey, Lord JOHN PARBROTH, &c. one of his Majesties Honourable Privy Council.
TO THE HONOVRABLE And truly Noble Lord, Earle of Lindsey, Lord JOHN PARBROTH, &c. one of his Majesties Honourable Privy Councell.
Grace, Mercy and Peace, &c.
Considering (my Lord) your Lordships good mind and constant fidelity and care in advancing this blessed Reformation, and fending both your shoulders to hold up the Kingdom of our LORD JESUS, and also your singular respect and real affection to this famous University, and the faculty of Divinity in this Society, I thought it rather a matter of debtfull necessity, then of arbitrary election and choice, that this little piece that pleadeth for ⟨image 3⟩the Government of the Church of Scotland, should thrust it self through the thick and throng of many worthier monuments of Learning, under the honourable Patrociny of your Lordships name. I am not ignorant that two blocks closeth the passage to many of greater parts and ability then I am, to add (I may have leave to borrow the word) to the Presses child-birth• travelling with no end of making many books, 1and these be the opinions of men, and the event of Printing: I may say of the former, that Opinion is a Witch and a great Enchantress, while men call for Books, as nice banqueters call for dishes to the Table, for they make such wide odds betwixt taste-pleasant and goodness of meat, as if they were sworn to the roof of their mouth, rather then to health and life; so that it is much more obvious to please few, and gratify none, then to satisfy all. And for the event, it is not unlike dicing, for it is doubtsome if Fame be not a lost prize in writing, and if the game go not cross the Authors hair. And such is our corruption, that the air or figures of a printed name is a piece of our self, and as our skin wherein our flesh and bones are kindly inchalmbered, and so were most tender of one penny breadth of this