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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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Saul rejected God, did he therefore excommunicate God? •or this is but a suiting of the question, it is not simple rejection of an obstinate Church that we plead for, but an authoritative unchurching and not acknowledging of an obstinate Church to be any more a Church with whom we can communicate in the holy things of God, and this is more then simple rejection, or refusing to obey, as Saul is said to reject God. I grant we seldom find the practice of excommunicating Churches in the New Testament, because so long as a number of believers are in a Church, God leaveth them not all to be involved in one scandalous ⟨p. 224⟩gross sin, therefore the presbytery is to censure particular persons and not the whole Church, therefore when we separated from Rome, which was an authoritative declaration that Rome is now no longer a Spouse of Christ, but a strumpet, we did not separate from the faithful lurking amongst them.
Saul rejected God, did he therefore excommunicate God? •or this is but a suting of the question, it is not simple rejection of an obstinate Church that we plead for, but an authoritative unchurching and not acknowledging of an obstinate Church to be any more a Church with whom we can communicate in the holy things of God, and this is more then simple rejection, or refusing to obey, as Saul is said to reject God. I grant we seldome find the practice of excommunicating Churches in the New Testament, because so long as a number of beleevers are in a Church, God leaveth them not all to be involved in one scandalous ⟨p. 224⟩grosse sinne, therfore the presbytery is to censure particular persons and not the whole Church, therfore when we separated from Rome, which was an authoritative declaration that Rome is now no longer a Spouse of Christ, but a strumpet, we did not separate from the faithfull lurking amongst them.
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