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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 ...
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They object fifthly, 1There was no combination of many ⟨p. 207⟩Pastors of divers Churches, but only a few messengers seen from Antioch to the Congregation at Jerusalem: Hence many say, it was an assembly of a particular Church, and it bindeth only as a particular and special meeting. So M. Best.
They object fifthly, 1There was no combination of many ⟨p. 207⟩Pastors of divers Churches, but onely a few messengers sene from Antioch to the Congregation at Jerusalem: Hence many say, it was an assembly of a particular Church, and it bindeth only as a particular and speciall meeting. So M. Best.
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Answ 1. We stand not upon an exact meeting of all Churches,1 when as the nature and essence of a Synodical and Assembly-meeting is saved: Here were Apostles and Elders, whose charge was the wide world, And the Elders of Jerusalem, and Commissioners sent from Antioch, and they send Canons and Decrees to other Churches. 2. A decree of one particular independent Congregation cannot bind another, as our brethren teach: But the Decrees made here did tie the Churches of Syria, 2Cilicia, Antioch, and Jerusalem. v. 22, 23. chap. 16. v. 4. Yea and all the Churches of the Gentiles,