A57976:70
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
10. Argument. That which maketh the government of Gods house Democratical and popular, is not to be taught: but this Opinion is such, as I hope to prove hereafter.
10. Argument. That which maketh the government of Gods house Democraticall and popular, is not to bee taught: but this Opinion is such, as I hope to prove hereafter.
11. Argument. If the power of the keys be given to believers,1 as believers, Then all, and only believers, have the power of the keys: Quod convenit [Greek or Hebrew] convenit [Greek or Hebrew], That which agreeth to any thing reduplicative, and for this formal reason, it agreeth to that subject only: But all and only believers have not the power of the keys. for the Major, Parker teacheth, The keys were given to Peter, as a believer, not as an Apostle. I prove the Assumption. ⟨p. 17⟩The believers three or four may be excommunicated, and that justly, in which case they remain believers, and yet being no members of the Church, cannot have the power of the keys: also many have the power of the keys, yea, and are pastors, that are not believers: as Christ saith, Have not I chosen you twelve, and yet one of you is a Devil? Many will say to me in that day, 2Lord, we have prophesied in thy name, 3and in thy name cast out Devils, &c. and yet they are workers of iniquity, 4never known of Christ as his elect. So some enemies to Paul and wicked men, Phil. 1. Haters of the Gospel, and yet preached it, in such sort that Paul rejoiced that Christ was preached. Now if they be not believers that are pastors, their pastoral acts of baptizing and administering the Sacraments are null, seeing they have no power of the keys, many shall doubt if they have been baptized, because they may happily doubt, yea, too justly doubt of the belief, and so of the pastors power of the keys. Yea, six or ten professors and visible Saints are an independent congregation, and so have the power of the Keys to appoint an Eldership, to Excommunicate, and yet these ten may be faithless hypocrites: hence all their acts of the keys are null. It is known, how Austin, Jerome and the Fathers contend that the Baptism of Heretics is lawful.