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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I deny not but the faithful convened, or were to convene in this meeting with the Eldership, for praying and hearing the word preached, which must be conjoined with excommunication, but the meeting is denominated pastoral and presbyterial with spiritual power from the special intended end in that act, which was authoritatively to deliver the fornicator to Satan, 1and Ursine thinketh not without reason that the man was excommunicated, and there being a space intervening betwixt Pauls writing of the first, and his second Epistle to the Corinthians, that Paul, 2 Cor. 2. writeth for relaxing him from the sentence of excommunication. Also Paul when he saith, [Greek or Hebrew], I have already judged as present, meaneth not a popular or private judging, as we say, the Physician judgeth of the disease by the pulse,2 and the Geometer judgeth of figures, as Marsilius speaketh, but understandeth a joint authoritative judging with the Eldership, otherwayes he needed not to add (but present in spirit, as if I were present, have already judged) for whither he had been absent or present, he might have given his private mind of the due demerit of so scandalous a sin.
I deny not but the faithfull conveened, or were to conveene in this meeting with the Eldership, for praying and hearing the word preached, which must be conjoyned with excommunication, but the meeting is denominated pastorall and presbyteriall with spirituall power from the speciall intended end in that act, which was authoritatively to deliver the fornicatour to Satan, 1and Vrsine thinketh not without reason that the man was excommunicated, and there being a space interveening betwixt Pauls writing of the first, and his second Epistle to the Corinthians, that Paul, 2 Cor. 2. writeth for relaxing him from the sentence of excommunication. Also Paul when he saith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I have already iudged as present, meaneth not a popular or private judging, as we say, the Physitian judgeth of the disease by the pulse,