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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 ...
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Pastors by one and the same power of the keys. His second answer is. All are not rulers: An incorporation may make a Major or Sheriffs, and yet the incorporation is not a Major and Sheriff: So the Church may make Ministers, and yet the Church it self is not properly an Elder, or a Deacon. Answer, It is not alike, An incorporation hath a privilege, but not any princely or magisterial authority to create a Major, but the Saints have the regal power of the keys from Christ, not only to make Elders, but also to judge authoritatively with coequal power with the Elders: by your doctrine, if the whole inhabitants ⟨p. 14⟩of a city may make a Major, and set themselves down in the Bench, as collateral Judges with the Major, then all the inhabitants indeed were Majors, as all the Saints in Corinth did judicially excommunicate, why are they not then all Elders and Pastors? Show us any authority that Pastors have in governing, which the meanest of the congregation hath not? And this maketh all Ministers, and all, to be Watchmen, Fathers, Overseers. This I take to have been the error of Tertullian, 1who will have Christ to have left all Christians with alike power.
Pastours by one and the same power of the keyes. His second answer is. All are not rulers: An incorporation may make a Major or Sheriffs, and yet the incorporation is not a Major and Sheriffe: So the Church may make Ministers, and yet the Church it selfe is not properly an Elder, or a Deacon. Answer, It is not alike, An incorporation hath a priviledge, but not any princely or magisteriall authoritie to create a Major, but the Saints have the regall power of the keyes from Christ, not only to make Elders, but also to judge authoritatively with coequall power with the Elders: by your doctrine, if the whole inhabitants ⟨p. 14⟩of a citie may make a Major, and set themselves down in the Bench, as collaterall Judges with the Major, then all the inhabitants indeed were Majors, as all the Saints in Corinth did judicially excommunicate, why are they not then all Elders and Pastours? Shew us any authoritie that Pastours have in governing, which the meanest of the congregation hath not? And this maketh all Ministers, and all, to be Watchmen, Fathers, Overseers. This I take to have beene the errour of Tertullian,