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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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Answ. 1. Suppose Syria and Cilicia had no Commissioners here (which yet we cannot grant, but give only) yet Jerusalem and Antioch had their Commissioners, which maketh the meeting formally and essentially a Synod, of many particular Churches met synodically in one; for there were many single Pari•hionall congregations both at Jerusalem and at Antioch. 2. We doubt not but the Apostles who wrote to them the Decrees of the assembly, advertised them also of that Apostolic remedy for determining the question, seeing they writ to them, ver. 24. We have heard that some have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, ye must be circumcised, Ergo, the Apostles tendered their salvation; therefore we are to think that Syria and Cilicia had their Commissioners here: What if they neglected to send (á facto ad jus non valet consequentia) they should have sent Commissioners. This assemblies Decrees did lay a tie and bond upon the Churches of Syria and Cilicia, then it did either tie them as a counsel and advise, or or as a part of Scripture, or thirdly as a Decree of an Ecclesiastical Synod: If the first be said, this Canon doth not lay a command upon them, the contrary whereof we find, v. •8. it layeth a burden on them, chap. 16. 4. chap. 21. 28. and Decrees that they must keep. The second is unanswerably confuted in answering the tenth objection: If the third be said we obtain what we seek, and so they should have sent Commissioners, otherwise the Decrees of Synods shall oblige Ecclesiastically Churches who are not obliged to be present in their Commissioners, which neither we, nor they can affirm.
Answ. 1. Suppose Syria and Cilicia had no Commissioners here (which yet we cannot grant, but give only) yet Ierusalem and Antioch had their Commissioners, which maketh the meeting formally and ess•ntially a Synod, of many particular Churches met synodically in one; for there were many single Pari•hionall congregations both at Ierusalem and at Antioch. 2. We doubt not but the Apostles who wrote to them the Decrees of the assembly, advertised them also of that Apostolike remedy for determining the question, seeing they writ to them, ver. 24. We have heard that some have troubled you with words, sub•erting your soules, saying, ye must be circumcised, Ergo, the Apostles tendred their s•lvation; therefore we are to thinke that Syria and Cilicia had their Commissioners here: What if they neglected to send (á facto ad ius non valet consequentia) they should have sent Commissioners. This assemblies Decrees did lay a tye and bond upon the Churches of Syria and Cilicia, then it did either tye them as a counsell and advise, or or as a part of Scripture, or thirdly as a Decree of an Ecclesiasticall Synod: If the first be said, this Canon doth not lay a command upon them, the contrary whereof we find, v. 8. it layeth a burthen on them, chap. 16. 4. chap. 21. 28. and Decrees that they must keep. The second is unanswerably confuted in answering the tenth objection: If the third be said we obtaine what we seeke, and so they should have sent Commissioners, otherwise the Decrees of Synods shall oblige Ecclesiastically Churches who are not obliged to be present in their Commissioners, which neither we, nor they can affirme.