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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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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.1
- 1Ro•i•s against Yales, p. 37, 38.
Answ. The antecedent is false, because to Eldad and Medad were given both the spirit of prophecy, and from that gifted spirit, came a prophetical impulsion actually to prophecy without any farther call of the Church; for God spake then by impulsion, as he doth now by his Word, else one may say the physical and natural power that Samuel had to kill Agag, was a calling sufficient to authorize him to kill gag, and an ability to discharge the office of the high-Priest in a man of the tribe of Judah were a good calling for one so gifted to thrust himself in Aaron's chair, which ⟨p. 255⟩God tied only to Levies Tribe.
Answ. The antecedent is false, because to Eldad and Medad were given both the spirit of prophecy, and from that gifted spirit, came a propheticall impulsion actually to prophecy without any farther call of the Church; for God spake then by impulsion, as he doth now by his Word, els one may say the physicall and naturall power that Samuell had to kill Agag, was a calling sufficient to authorize him to kill •gag, and an hability to discharge the office of the high-Priest in a man of the tribe of Iudah were a good calling for one so gifted to thrust himselfe in Aarons chair, which ⟨p. 255⟩