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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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9. Arg. 1That which Christ will have to be a ministerial power in the members of his Church,2 to the exercise thereof Christ giveth competent and answerable gifts to the foresaid effect.3 But God neither giveth,4 nor hath promised,5 nor requireth answerable gifts for using the keys in all believers.6 Therefore Christ willeth no ministerial power of the keys to be in all the members of the Church.7 The proposition I prove 1. God promiseth gifts to the priesthood of the new Testament.8 As 1. Diligence,9 Isaiah 61.10 That strangers shall stand and feed their flocks. 2. Zeal, Isaiah 62. That ⟨p. 15⟩they shall never give the Lord rest. 113. That they shall be clothed with salvation. 2. When God sendeth Moses, Isaiah, 12Jeremiah, he giveth them gifts and abilities for the calling.13 So (as the Treatist of Discipline observeth) it is oft said,14