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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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Answ. 1. A promiscuous baptizing of all we deny: It may import a baptizing of the Infants of Turks, or of Papists, who avow they will bring up the child baptized in the Roman faith: In which case, it would seem Baptism should be denied,1 as the learned Walleus thinketh. 2. There is a double counting on in Gods seed. 1. One according to Election, and so only the elect are counted in the seed, as is clear, Rom. 9. Paul expoundeth, Gen. 15. This counting in the seed is not well counted to be common to all circumcised: Separatists do ordinarily miscount and abuse Scriptures, not caring what they cite, so that the Margin swell with citations. 2. There is an Ecclesiastical and conditional counting, whereby all baptized are in the judgement of charity counted Abraham's heirs; but with the condition, that they have Abraham's faith, and be internally in Abraham's covenant, and so are counted in th• seed, and all baptized. Hence the Separatists other two Arguments do not conclude: For they infer, if all must be baptized, that unbelievers have alike interest with believers in the seals and privileges of the Church, and must be counted in that same body and state with believers: For to the external privileges and visible body of the Church all professors (for they are not to be reputed unbelievers) have alike interest; ⟨p. 184⟩but to the inward favours and graces sealed in the Sacraments, and in the true and mystical body of Christ they have not all alike interest who are baptized. 2. Separatists do ignorantly and uncharitably in this dispute take the children of the nearest Parents that are profane and wicked, and unbelieving and unclean Infants for all one: For because their Fathers many generations upward were within the covenant; therefore are such children in external prof•ssion within the covenant, as the Lord did show favour to his people for Abraham and Davids sake many years after they were dead, when their nearest Parents were wicked and profane, Psal. 106. 45, 46.