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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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Twelfthly they object against Synods. The Pope is the Antichrist, because he willeth men to appeal from their own Churches to him, as Whittaker and Chamier. prove; but the doctrine of the Synods teach men to appeal ⟨p. 260⟩from particular Churches to Synods, and by no word of God have Pastors power over other Congregations, nor their own.
Twelfthly they object against Synods. The Pope is the Antichrist, because he willeth men to appeale from their owne Churches to him, as Whittaker and Chamier. prove; but the doctrine of the Synods teach men to appeale ⟨p. 260⟩from particular Churches to Synods, and by no word of God have Pastors power over other Congregations, nor their owne.
Answ. Antioch appealed from corrupt teachers, Acts 15. 2, 3. and that is Apostolic; but to appeal from a Church to a man of sin, as if he were the whole Church is Antichristian.
Answ. Antioch appealed from corrupt teachers, Acts 15. 2, 3. and that is Apostolike; but to appeale from a Church to a man of sin, as if he were the whole Church is Antichristian.
2. If six believers in a Congregation of forty believers should censure a brother, our brethren would say that brother should appeal from these six (who yet make an independent Congregation) to the Church of forty, yet should not this be Antichristian.