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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: God forbid we deny, but they both may and ought to pray continually: but hence it followeth not affirmativè, à genere ad speciem, therfore they may authoritatively, not being called of God, as was Aaron, and invade the pastors chair, and pray and fast and lay on hands by ministerial authority, as the pastors do, ⟨p. 195⟩Act: 6. 6. Act: 13. 3.
Answ: God forbid we deny, but they both may and ought to pray continually: but hence it followeth not affirmativè, à genere ad speciem, therfore they may authoritatively, not being called of God, as was Aaron, and invade the pastors chaire, and pray and fast and lay on hands by ministeriall authority, as the pastors doe, ⟨p. 195⟩Act: 6. 6. Act: 13. 3.
2. The Church (saith the Feminine Author, p. 8.) is not blind, so that none have power of seeing, but only the officers.
2. The Church (saith the Feminin Authour, p. 8.) is not blinde, so that none have power of seeing, but only the officers.
Answ. All believers see and discern true and false teachers, 1 John 4. 1. Heb: 5. 14. 2 Cor: 3. 18. Psal: 119. 18. Ephes: 1. 17. but it followeth not, affirmativè, à genere a• speciem, therefore they do all see as the eye of the body, with an authoritative and pastoral light and eye; for then all the body should be an eye, where were then the hearing?