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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 ...
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5. Smith laboureth to prove that the ministry cometh not by succession from Ministers: 1For then (saith he) the ministry should be before there were any Church;2 but the Church is before the ministry, and calleth the Ministers to office.
5. Smith laboureth to prove that the ministery commeth not by succession from Ministers: 1For then (saith he) the ministery should be before there were any Church;2 but the Church is before the ministery, and calleth the Ministers to office.
- 1Object. 5.Obiect. 5.
- 2Smith paral. •2.
Answ. The Church ministerial, the governing Church, whereof we now speak, cannot be before there be a ministry; for then there should be Ministers before there be Ministers, which is against common sense: The Church mystical is before the Church ministerial, I grant; but a Church mystical, or a Church of believers ⟨p. 268⟩may choose Pastors before they can ordinarily be their Pastors, but they cannot make Pastors: Yea, and God at same times supplieth the want of popular election, while he calleth one to preach to a people, never consenting he shall be their Pastor, and so neither can the objector maintain a succession of believers always calling Ministers, nor do we hold a constant ordination of Pastors in a continual line of succession from the Apostles made by Pastors, the succession may be interrupted, but then God himself supplieth the want of ordinary ordination appointed by himself,