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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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4. That great Divine Junius doth excellently observe that Paul joineth himself as an extraordinary Elder with the ordinary Eldership of Corinth, v. 4. When you are gathered together with my spirit: For, as I observed before, Paul requireth not only that they be gathered together in the name of Christ, which is required in all meetings for Gods worship in Prayers, Word and Sacraments; but also here he requireth that they meet (saith he) with my spirit, that is, with my Presbyterial power of the keys, and, 1 Cor. 4. 21. with the authority which the Lord hath given us for edification, 2 Cor. 10. 8. as I am an Elder. So said the Prophet to Gehazi, 2 King. 5. 26. went not my spirit with thee, that is, my Prophetical power, Col. 2. 5. For though I be absent in the flesh, yet I am present in spirit. Now the believers out of office did not convene in this meeting, endued with Pauls Ministerial and Pastoral spirit; for single believers receive not Ministerial spirit from God, neither is such a spirit promised to them: Give an instance in Scripture of this promise, and we shall lose this cause; but this spirit for doctrine and discipline so given to Pastors, 1 Cor. 4. 21. 2 Cor. 10. 8. Col. 4. 17. 2 Cor. 4. 1. 2 Cor. 5. 18. 1 Cor. 12 28, 29. v. 17. therefore the coming together with Pauls spirit, that is, with his ministerial power of the keys, as an Elder, must be restrained to the Eldership of Corinth, and cannot be applied to single believers, men, women and children, who yet were puffed up and sorrowed not, v 2. therefore this is not a gathering together of an independent Congregation