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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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3. Because it was of old in the power of Prophets to use some means to dispose themselves to prophecy, for when the passion of anger overclouded the fancy and the species therein, then Elisha calleth for a minstrel to play, and dispose the mind better, as Ca•etan saith: Howbeit for all that the Text saith, the hand of the Lord only actuated these species, and caused him to prophecy.1
3. Because it was of old in the power of Prophets to use some meanes to dispose themselves to prophecy, for when the passion of anger overclouded the fancy and the species therin, then Elisha calleth for a minstrell to play, and dispose the minde better, as Ca•etan saith: Howbeit for all that the Text saith, the hand of the Lord only actuated these species, and caused him to prophecy.1
- 1• Kin 3. 15. […] come in 2 […] 3 ad […] conseque•ter […] ad De•m.• Kin 3. 15. 〈…〉 com in 2 〈…〉 3 ad 〈…〉 conseque•ter 〈…〉 ad De•m.
Neither are Robinsons arguments of great weight, I answer only these that have most apparency, 1 If the Lords giving of the spirit extraordinary to Eld•d and Medad made them Prophets both in office and exercise, by due proportion, gifts under the New Testament are sufficient to make men ordinary Prophets.