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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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Our eighth Argument is,1 from the constant practise of the Apostles, if all weighty affairs that concern equally many particular congregations were managed, not by one single congregation, but by the joint voices and suffrages of Apostles, Pastors and selected Brethren of many congregations in the Apostolic Church: Then were Synods the practice of the Apostles, and n•t independent congregations, but the former is true. Ergo, so is the latter. The proposition our brethren grant. I prove the assumption by an induction. 1. The select Pastors of the Christian world, and select brethren, Act: 1. did elect and ordain Matthias to be one of the twelve, because that concerned many particular Churches, the public treasury of Apostolic Churches was committed to the Apostles, because that concerned them all, Act. 4. 33, 34. When the Churches of the Grecians, and the Churches of the Hebrews murmured the one against the other, one common Synod of the twelve Apostles authoritatively convened, and ordained with praying and laying on of hands the seven Deacons, 2Act. 6. 2, 3, 4, 5. and Walleus saith, the argument for ordaining Deacons, that the Pastors might attend the word and prayer, proveth also that there were then ruling Elders. ⟨p. 221⟩Also Act. 20. 28. there is a Synod of Pastors at Ephesus, whom Paul warned to take heed to the flock, and Act: 11. 2. Peter giveth a reckoning and count of his going in to the Gentiles, before a Synod of Apostles and Brethren, for it was unpossible that the multitude of believers now grown so numerous could all meet in one house, and Act. 21. 18. an Assembly of Apostles and Elders ordaineth Paul to purify himself, a Synod of Elders, 1 Tim: 4. 14. ordained Timothy.
Our eighth Argument is,1