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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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Ignatius very ancient,1 if we believe antiquity, describeth our very Scottish Presbytery, and calleth it, a Senate of Pastors and Elders, that was in the Church in his time. So Origen, who lived with Tertullian, resembleth the Presbytery to the Senate of a City, and Ruffinus agreeth with them. Cyprian, the presbyters and other officers have the power of the keys. So the Nicene Council saith (as the Mageburgen. and Socrates say) Aurelius was ordained by Cyprian and his colleagues: he requireth that the multitude he present to consent, but that the Presbyteries ordain.
Ignatius very ancient,1 if we believe antiquitie, describeth our very Scotish Presbyterie, and calleth it, a Senate of Pastours and Elders, that was in the Church in his time. So Origen, who lived with Tertullian, resembleth the Presbytery to the Senate of a Citie, and Ruffinus agreeth with them. Cyprian, the presbyters and other officers have the power of the keyes. So the Nicen Councell saith (as the Mageburgen. and Socrates say) Aurelius was ordained by Cyprian and his colleagues: he requireth that the multitude he present to consent, but that the Presbyteries ordaine.
- 1Ignatius epist. ad Tinllanos, presbyterium definit caeu•m sacrum consiliarios & confessors, [Greek or Hebrew], Episc. & ibid. [Greek or Hebrew] Dei & consociatum caetum Apostolorum, & ib. Sed & presbyteris subjects estote, tanquam Christi Apostolis. Origen. contra Cell vocat. [Greek or Hebrew] ecclesiarum. Ruffin. lib. 10. c. 5. hist. eccles. Cyprian. epist. 14. ep. 33. ep. 10. ep. 68. ut s•cerdos peebe praesente, sub omni um occulis deligatur, & dignis atque idoneus publico judicio ac testimo. comprobetur, omni a•m (inquit l. 3. ep. 11.) ad me perlato, placuit contrahi presbyterium: Fi• milianus Seniors & propositi ordimandi potestatem habent. Clem. Alex. s•ro•n. lib. 7. penes presbyteros est discipline quae homine mliores fac. Basil. ad Noe Caesu. ep. 75. Interrogate […] vesto, & annuncitibunt vobis, quod eia usi paroei loci citu divisae esse videbantur, coronmento […] unita erant & una senten i gubernaantur. Athnas epist: orthodox Hyeren Eccles habet senatum […] presbyterioum, […] epist. . ad Dunetria. […] in 1. Tim. Aequam diaboli instinctu communi presbytertorum consilo ecclesia regebatur. Eusebias l. 1. de vita Constant. at the faous Councell of Ne, Nar. 250. Bishops multitudes of Elders and Deacons. So the Magdeburg cent 1. de gber.