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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. The authors of Presbyterial govern.1 exam. say, Elders are principally to judge, and to be leaders and first actors in excommunicating, and people are to follow in the second room and assent.2 So say our Divines, Walleus, 3Bucanus, Rollocus, Beza. Therefore Paul cannot rebuke private believers,4 because they did not excommunicate judicially in the first room; for then Paul should have rebuked the Elders and leaders for not excommunicating in the order answerable to their place and power,5 and because they did not judicially and authoritatively lead, and go before as first actors and prime moderators in the judicial act of delivering of the man to Satan, and so Paul cannot in reason rebuke all the faithful amongst whom the scandalous man did converse, and who were pus•ed up, and sorrowed not at the mans fall, because they did not excommunicate judicially, at most, they can be rebuked only for not excommunicating in the second room, and in that orderly and subordinate way suitable to their place and power.
2. The authors of Presbyteriall govern.1 exam. say, Elders are principally to iudge, and to be leaders and first actors in excommunicating, and people are to follow in the second roome and assent.2 So say our Divines, Walleus, 3Bucanus, Rollocus, Beza. Therefore Paul cannot rebuke private beleevers,4 because they did not excommunicate judicially in the first roome; for then Paul should have rebuked the Elders and leaders for not excommunicating in the order answerable to their place and power,