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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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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, Act. 14. 23. so taken from a civill forme of peoples giving their suffrages amongst the Lacedemonians, as our brethren say: Yet it is not for that unlawfull, or an humane forme, a Parishionall meeting of the people to heare the word, is taken from a civill forme of both Romanes and Grecians convening to heare declamations and Panygerickes, yet a Parishionall Church is not for that a humane and unlawfull Church.