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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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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?
Our brethren who teach that the ordination of Pastors is only from that power of the keys that they imagine to be in the body of believers must needs, ⟨p. 261⟩holding such an humane ministerial Church, fall in divers errors; as 1. that he cannot officiate pastorally without that number of believers, from whence essentially he hath his pastoral calling. 2. When the Churches necessity shall call him to remove to another independent flock: He is no Pastor while he be ordained and chosen of new by that flock. So the English Puritanism, 1and M. Best.2