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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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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
OVr brethren who teach that the ordination of Pastors is onely from that power of the keyes that they imagine to be in the body of beleevers must needs, ⟨p. 261⟩holding such an humane ministeriall Church, fall in divers errors; as 1. that he cannot officiate pastorally without that number of beleevers, from whence essentially he hath his pastorall calling. 2. When the Churches necessity shall call him to remove to another independent flocke: He is no Pastor while he be ordained and chosen of new by that flocke. So the English Puritanisme, 1and M. Best.2
- 1English Puritanis. c. 2. a• 6. p. 5.
- 2M. Best against Paget, p. 133, 134.
We hold that a Pastor may officiate, as a Pastor without his own congregation.