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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…

Name: A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and…
Author: Samuel Rutherford

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 ...

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661London: printed for John Bartlet, 1642London: printed for Iohn Bartlet, 1642

[16], 326 [i.e. 334] p. · 119k words · Wing R2389 · ESTC R7368

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Chapter 16

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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, ¹¹Musculus, Gualther. 2. The word [Greek or Hebrew], exhort one another,¹² will not bear that one with one only should confer,¹³ but one with many (howbeit a multitude should evert the nature of private conference) Jam. 5. 6.¹⁴ pray one for another, [Greek or Hebrew], it were narrow charity to pray one for one onely,¹⁵

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Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

London

Bookseller

John BartletIohn Bartlet

Year

1642

Size

[16], 326 [i.e. 334] p.

Words

119,194

Catalogue

Wing R2389 · ESTC R7368

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EEBO-TCP A57976

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968

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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…

CHAP. XVII.

Whether or no some do warrantably teach that a Pastor hath no pastoral power to preach and administrate the Sacraments, without the bounds of his own Congregation? and from whence essentially is the calling of a Pastor?

Whether or no some doe warrantably teach that a Pactor hath no pastorall power to preach and administrate the Sacraments, without the bounds of his owne Congregation? and from whence essentially is the calling of a Pastor?

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XVII.

Whether or no some do warrantably teach that a Pastor hath no pastoral power to preach and administrate the Sacraments, without the bounds of his own Congregation? and from whence essentially is the calling of a Pastor?

Whether or no some doe warrantably teach that a Pactor hath no pastorall power to preach and administrate the Sacraments, without the bounds of his owne Congregation? and from whence essentially is the calling of a Pastor?

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