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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. 1The thing it self is here, if not the name, saith that learned Voetius. 2. Neither is the name of an independent Church in Scripture, nor the word Trinity or Sacrament, what then? the the things are in Scripture. 3. verse 6. [Greek or Hebrew], they assembled, and ver. 25. they were together, is plainly a Synod.
Answ. 1The thing it selfe is here, if not the name, saith that learned Voetius. 2. Neither is the name of an independent Church in Scripture, nor the word Trinity or Sacrament, what then? the the things are in Scripture. 3. verse 6. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, they assembled, and ver. 25. they were together, is plainly a Synod.
- 1Gilbert V••••us do classib. the• ▪ 7.
They object 3.1 Though there were a general assembly here, yet it proveth nothing for the power of the keys to be in such an assembly,2 but only it saith something for a power of deciding of controversies in matter of •aith, which implieth no act of jurisdiction.
They object 3.1 Though there were a generall assembly here, yet it proveth nothing for the power of the keyes to be in such an assembly,