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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. It is presupposed by order of nature, that A. B. is first called and ordained a Pastor by Christ, and […] laying on the hands of the Elders, 1 Tim. 4. 14. before the people can elect him for their Pastor: For if A. B. be no Pastor, people cannot choose him to be their Pastor, neither doth the peoples election give any such power to A. B. That power is given by the Presbyteries act of ordination, by order of nature, before the peoples formal act of election: As the husband who in a Lapidaries shop chooseth a gold ring for his wife, and putteth it on her finger, presupposeth it was a gold ring before his choosing thereof, neither doth his choosing thereof make it a gold-ring, but only make it his wives gold-ring by application to her: Just so, peoples election appropriateth such a man who is already a Pastor to such a charge, but doth not make the Pastor a Pastor, but chooseth him only to be their Pastor.
Answ. It is presupposed by order of nature, that A. B. is first called and ordained a Pastor by Christ, and 〈…〉 laying on the hands of the Elders, 1 Tim. 4. 14. before the people can elect him for their Pastor: For if A. B. be no Pastor, people cannot chuse him to be their Pastor, neither doth the peoples election give any such power to A. B. That power is given by the Presbyteries act of ordination, by order of nature, before the peoples formall act of election: As the husband who in a Lapidaries shop chooseth a gold ring for his wife, and putteth it on her finger, presupposeth it was a gold ring before his chusing thereof, neither doth his chusing thereof make it a gold-ring, but onely make it his wifes gold-ring by application to her: Just so, peoples election appropriateth such a man who is already a Pastor to such a charge, but doth not make the Pastor a Pastor, but chuseth him only to be their Pastor.
5. Smith laboureth to prove that the ministry cometh not by succession from Ministers: 1