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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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Ergo, divers sister-Churches so make up one visible politic Church under one common Church government, according to Christs discipline, &c.
Ergo, divers sister-Churches so make up one visible politick Church under one common Church government, according to Christs discipline, &c.
The proposition is our brethren's, whereby they prove, and that strongly, that single professors consociated in these acts and duties of visible Church communion, make up one visible Church under one common government,1 and so say the Fathers Basil, 2Chrysostom, Augustine and Athanasius, 3howbeit in habitation we be separated, 4y•t are we one body, 5and Cyprian will have nothing done in the cause of many Churches,6 except we all meet in one place.
The proposition is our brethrens, wherby they proove, and that strongly, that single professours consociated in these acts and dentees of visible Church communion, make up one visible Church under one common governement,1 and so say the Fathers Basil, 2Chrysostome, Augustine and Athanasius, 3