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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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2. This is that which Epi•copius,1 Se•inians and Arminians teach from Anabaptists,2 so The•phil. Nicolai•, And Radaecius, Catech. of Raccovia, Ostorod. Socinus the […], 1. That the sending and calling of Ministers by the Church n•w when the Gospel is sufficiently promulgated,3 is not necessary. 2. That any gifted man hath a warrant,4 because he is gifted to be a Pastor without any call or authority official from the Church. And what? will Robinson say, 5because these Prophets are gifted to baptize and to administer the Supper of the Lord, as well as they are to preach the Gospel, then by this goodly reason of his,6 they may be pastors without any calling of the Church, and certainly any man gifted to be a King,7 and a Magistrate, by the calling that the Word of God alloweth sh•ll by this reason have a call to leap up to the throne and the bench; but our Divines as Calvin, Parcus, Zanchius, Junius, Beza, make two different things in a lawful calling. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], gifts for the calling, which is not enough. 2. [Greek or Hebrew], authority from the Church, which is also required.
2. This is that which Epi•copius,1 Se•inians and Arminians teach from Anabaptists,