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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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2. Our Argument is drawn from the greater authority in the politic body to the lesser; brotherly advise is not authority. Hence authority as authority by this means shall not help the weaker parts of the body, contrary to that which we have at length commanded, 1 Cor. 12. Neither do some reply well▪ that he speaks, 1 Cor. 12. of Christs invisible body, because it is said, v. 13. ⟨p. 228⟩For by one spirit we are all baptized into one body, 1whether we be Jews or Gentiles. Jews and Gentiles (saith he) make not a visible Church, but an invisible Catholic Church.
2. Our Argument is drawne from the greater authority in the politicke body to the lesser; brotherly advise is not authority. Hence authority as authority by this meanes shall not help the weaker parts of the body, contrary to that which we have at length commanded, 1 Cor. 12. Neither doe some reply well▪ that he speaks, 1 Cor. 12. of Christs invisible body, because it is said, v. 13. ⟨p. 228⟩For by one spirit we are all baptized into one body, 1whether we be Jewes or Gentiles. Jewes and Gentiles (saith he) make not a visible Church, but an invisible Catholike Church.
- 1A manuscript for independent Churches, c, 1. p. 12