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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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3. I see no foot-step of any tolerable ground in the Text, why it should be alleged that all the faithful men coming to age (to speak nothing of believing women and children) are rebuked for not excommunicating judicially the fornicator; but rather the contrary, that the faithful out of office were not to excommunicate judicially: For applying these words as a reproof to believing men, v. 2. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather sorrowed, that [Greek or Hebrew], to the end that he that hath done this deed, [Greek or Hebrew], may be taken from amongst you. He useth the passive verb, not the active, whereby it appeareth that the believers ⟨p. 234⟩were patients rather, then agents in the not judicial and authoritative taking away of the man from amongst them, and that their fault was that they mo• ned not to God for the mans fall, and the remiss negligence of the Elders, by whose authority he might have been authoritatively delivered to Satan.1 Pareus saith, that he blameth the believers security; 2Calvin, their not being humbled at the fall, and Cajetan, they boasted that the fornicator was the sinner, not they.
3. I see no foot-step of any tollerable ground in the Text, why it should be alleadged that all the faithfull men comming to age (to speake nothing of beleeving women and children) are rebuked for not excommunicating judicially the fornicator; but rather the contrary, that the faithfull out of office were not to excommunicate judicially: For applying these words as a reproofe to beleeving men, v. 2. And ye are pu•fed up, and have not rather sorrowed, that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to the end that he that hath done this deed, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, may be taken from amongst you. He useth the passive verbe, not the active, whereby it appeareth that the beleevers ⟨p. 234⟩were patients rather, then agents in the not judiciall and authoritative taking away of the man from amongst them, and that their fault was that they mo ned not to God for the mans fall, and the remisse negligence of the Elders, by whose authority he might have been authoritatively delivered to Satan.