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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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7. They object, 1Provincial and National Churches are humane forms brought in after the similitude of •ivill governments amongst the Romans,2 and there is no Church properly so called, but a Parish Church. See D. Ammes.
7. They object, 1Provinciall and Nationall Churches are humane formes brought in after the similitude of •ivill governments amongst the Romanes,2 and there is no Church properly so called, but a Parish Church. See D. Ammes.
- 17. Object.7. Obiect.
- 2Ames. Medul. Theol. l. 1. c 32. • thes. 22.
Answ. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], The lifting up of the hands in voicing at the election of Elders, Act. 14. 23. so taken from a civill form of peoples giving their suffrages amongst the Lacedaemonians, as our brethren say: Yet it is not for that unlawful, or an humane form, a Parishionall meeting of the people to hear the word, is taken from a civill form of both Romans and Grecians convening to hear declamations and Panegyrics, yet a Parishionall Church is not for that a humane and unlawful Church.
Answ. 1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, The lifting up of the hands in voicing at the election of Elders,