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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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8. Smith addeth, 1If the Elders and Deacons dye, the succession faileth, and a ministerial power of Christ •eing once lost can never be recovered again, and so there shall be no Ministers in the world.
8. Smith addeth, 1If the Eld•rs and Deacons dye, the succession faileth, and a mnisteriall power of Christ •eing once lost can never be recovered againe, and so there shall be no Ministers in the world.
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Answ. Suppose in this or that Church all the Ministers should dye, yet it followeth not that a Ministry can utterly fail in the Church: It is contrary to Eph. 4. 11. and to the perpetuity of Christs kingly government and Throne,1 which shall endure as the days of heaven: 2And what if God extraordinarily supply the want of ordination in this or that particular Church? A ministerial power is conferred in that case immediately upon some, in a Church removed from any Church-consociation from other Churches, and so Christs ministerial power dieth not.
Answ. Suppose in this or that Church all the Ministers should dye, yet it followeth not that a Ministery can utterly faile in the Church: It is contrary to Eph. 4. 11