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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. So the excommunication of the incestuous man, 1 Cor. 5. (if he was excommunicated) and his rereceiving again in the bosom of the Church, 1 Cor. 2. and the laying on of the hands of the Elders on Timothy, 1 Tim. 4. 14. and the appointing Elders at Lystra, Iconium, Antioch, and fasting and praying at the said ordination, Acts 14. v. 21, 22, 23. was Scripture, and set down in the Canonic History by the Holy-Ghost; but no man can deny that the conclusion or Decree of excommunication given out by the Church of Corinth, and the ordination of Timothy to be a Pastor, and the appointing of the Elders at Lystra, did oblige the Churches of Corinth, Ephesus, and Lystra, with an Ecclesiastical tie, as Ecclesiastical Synods do oblige.
Answ. 1. So the excommunication of the incestuous man, 1 Cor. 5. (if he was excommunicated) and his rereceiving againe in the bosome of the Church, 1 Cor. 2. and the laying on of the hands of the Elders on Timothy, 1 Tim. 4. 14. and the appointing Elders at Lystra, Iconium, Antioch, and fasting and praying at the said ordination, Acts 14. v. 21, 22, 23. was Scripture, and set downe in the Canonicke History by the Holy-Ghost; but no man can deny that the conclusion or Decree of excommunication given out by the Church of Corinth, and the ordination of Timothy to be a Pastor, and the appointing of the Elders at Lystra, did oblige the Churches of Corinth, Ephesus, and Lystra, with an Ecclesiasticall tye, as Ecclesiasticall Synods doe oblige.