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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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2. Many grave Divines think these were the seventy Disciples, and not private professors. Other doubts of this kind are of no weight, therefore I go on to that which Christians may do, and yet have they no power of the keys.
2. Many grave Divines thinke these were the seventy Disciples, and not private professours. Other doubts of this kind are of no weight, therfore I goe on to that which Christians may doe, and yet have they no power of the keyes.
2. Conclusion. 1They are to edify, exhort, rebuke and comfort one another,2 and this they may do, not one to one only,3 as some say, but one to many, 1. So the Scripture saith,4 Proverb. 10. 21.5 The lips of the righteous feed many, 6Ephes. 4. 29. They are to speak words ministering grace to the hearers: 7So saith Calvin, 8Bullinger, 9Beza, 10Davenant, Whittaker, Pareus, Zanchius, 11