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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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so that it is a wonder to me that any learned men should think that the Church of Corinth was one single and independent congregation, a•d that they met all in one house, where •. the Lord had much people, 2. where we are not to think in such a plentiful harvest of Christ, that so many pastors and teachers, and so many Apostles and Prophets, as there were there, as you may gather from 1 Cor. 14. 24, 31, 32. and so many speaking with divers tongues, so many who wrought miracles, so many who had the gift of discerning, ver. 26, 27. that all these were employed to edify one single congregation, who were all ordinary worshippers of God within the walls of one house, 4. We see how the false Apostles and teachers laboured to make Paul a despised Apostle amongst them, as is clear in the 2 epist. ch. 10. ch. 11. ch. 12. and so their meeting together, 1 Cor. 5. 1 Cor. 11. 1 Cor. ⟨p. 239⟩14. must be expounded of their meeting distributively, not collectively, 1as though all met in one house; and suppose that the pains of so numerous a company of Prophets should do nothing, but feed one single congregation which meet all in one house,2 yet there was here a College of many Pastors, Prophets, Doctors and Elders, who have power of excommunication, so faith Robinson, that there were many Doctors and Teachers in this Church, and proveth it well from 1 Co. 12. for which, see what our own Divines say, as Calvin, Beza, Pareus, Bulling. Martyr. Pelican. 3Pomeran. 4