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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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Que. 15. Whether or no by other valid Arguments from Gods word, the lawfulness of Synods can be concluded?
Que. 15. Whether or no by other valid Arguments from Gods word, the lawfulnesse of Synods can be concluded?
Hitherto hath been six Arguments against Churches independent, and consequently proving the lawfulness of Synods. Now followeth our seventh Argument.
HItherto hath been sixe Arguments against Churches independent, and consequently proving the lawfulnesse of Synods. Now followeth our seventh Argument.
7. If there be a commandment to tell the Church when an obstinate brother offendeth a brother, then must this course also be taken when an obstinate Church shall offend a Sister-church. But the former is true, ⟨p. 218⟩Mat 18. Ergo,1 so is the latter. This is not mine, but the Argument of Parker,2 D. Ammes, Professors of Leiden, and of all our Divines, Willet, Whittaker, Junius, Beza,3 &c. Our brethren say Christ speaketh, Mat. 18. of a particular Congregation,4 and not of many Congregations meeting synodically in their members of principal note, as Pastors and Elders. 1. Because an offended brother cannot have a Synod of Elders, and a National Assembly always to complain unto, and so Christ shall not set down an expedite way to remove scandals betwixt brother and brother. 2 Christ (say they) is setting down a way, how an obstinate offender shall be cast out of the Church, where he was an ordinary hearer of the word, and a compartner with other professors of the holy things of God, in a particular visible Church. Now these of divers Congregations partake not in a Church-communion of these same holy things of God, Word, Sacraments, and Discipline.