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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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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.
2. If sixe beleevers in a Congregation of forty beleevers should censure a brother, our brethren would say that brother should appeale from these sixe (who yet make an independent Congregation) to the Church of forty, yet should not this be Antichristian.
3. To appeal from a Church as an unlawful judicatory is unlawful, but to appeal from a lesser Church, as from a not competent Judge, to that same Church in a larger meeting is most lawful.
3. To appeale from a Church as an unlawfull judicatory is unlawfull, but to appeale from a lesser Church, as from a not competent Judge, to that same Church in a larger meeting is most lawfull.