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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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4. They object, 1The seven Churches of Asia are comm•nded, or rebuked by Christ for exercising or omitting discipline, every candle stick stood by it self, and held forth her own light, if they had had dependency one upon another, one message would have served them all; but only Thyat•ra is charged for suffering Jezebel to teach, if they were one Church, the whole would have been guilty of the sins of the part, the whole being negligent to disciplinate the part, but every Church is rebuked for it's own fault, Ergo, every one was independent within it self. So M. Best, Author of Presb. gover. exam. and the female doctrix Childley.2
4. They object, 1The seven Churches of Asia are comm•nded, or rebuk•d by Christ for exercising or omitting discipline, every candle sticke stood by it selfe, and held forth her owne light, if they had had dependency one upon another, one message would have served them all; but onely Thyat•ra is charged for sufferin• J•zabell to teach, if they were one Church, the whole would have beene gulty of the sinnes of the part, the whole being negligent to disciplinate the part, but every Church is rebuked for it's own fault, Ergo, every one was independent within it selfe. So M. Best, Author of Presb. gover. exam. and the femall doctrix Childley.2
- 1Object. 4.Obiect. 4.
- 2M. Best. Pr•sb gov exam▪ Kath. Childley, p. 19