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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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but still to Pastors, as is clear, 1 Tim. 5. 22. Tit. 1. ver. 5. Acts 6. 6. Acts 13. 3. 2 Tim. 1. 6. 1 Tim. 4. 14. And if ordination in the word of God be never in the power of one single Pastor (except we bring in a Prelate into the Church) then one Pastor, with one single Congregation cannot exercise this point of discipline, and so not all points of discipline. 3. If the preaching Elders be charged by the Spirit of God to watch against grievous wolves speaking perverse things, Acts 20. 29, 30, 3•. and rebuked because they suffer them to teach false doctrine; and commended, because they try false teachers, and cast them out, Rev. 2. ver. 14. ver. 20. ver. 2. if they be commanded to ordain faithful men, 2 Tim. 2. 2. and taught whom they should ordain, Tit. 1. 5, 6, 7. 1 Tim. 3. ver. 2, 3, 4, 5. 1 Tim. 5. 22. and whom they should reject, as unmeet for the work of the Lord: Then one Pastor and a single Congregation have not the power of this point of discipline, and so they are ⟨p. 191⟩not independent within themselves; but the former is said by GODS Word. Ergo, so is the latter.