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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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55. 14 Luk. 24. 14, 15. Deut. 6. 7, 8. 9. then the fore-setting of time and place is no essential ingredient in the action to make it of a lawful action, to become unlawful, except it were fore-set upon religious reason of some sacred or mystical signification, as our holy days were: mere circumstances, do not change actions that way. 3. All Divines, the Fathers as Augustine, 1Chrysostom, Ambrose, Hyeron. Thomas, 2Bannes, Suarez, Vasquez, Valentia, make private exhorting and rebuking our fallen brother a duty of the law of nature,3 such as to take our neighbours Ox out of a ditch,4 to visit a prisoner,5 to give alms to the poor:6 now if to intend time and place to lift up a brother whom God hath cast down, to reduce him whom we understand God hath permitted to wander,7 be unlawful, then to foreset time and place to visit a captive in prison, to give alms to the poor by that same reason were unlawful, which no man, in reason, can say. 4. To intend ⟨p. 259⟩and to appoint time and place for obedience to any Commandment of God doth rather make the action the more good and laudable, as the more deliberation in an ill action the worse, and the more deliberation in a good action the better, Psal. 119. 30. v. 62, 106, 147.