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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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10. If children laden with iniquity, and the seed of evildoers, Isa. 1. 4. doth beget in the visible Church a generation which is no more holy with external and federal holiness, th•n Indians and •artarians who never heard of Christ: And seeing such a generation hath by the former grounds no right to the means of salvation, we ask with what faith we can keep any Church-communion with such, yea how the Gospel can be preached to them.
10. If children laden with iniquity, and the seed of evilldoers, Isa. 1. 4. doth beget in the visible Church a generation which is no more holy with externall and federall holinesse, th•n Indians and •artarians who never heard of Christ: And seeing such a generation hath by the former grounds no right to the meanes of salvation, we aske with what faith we can keep any Church-communion with such, yea how the Gospell can be preached to them.
11. Whether or no we are to keep some Church-communion with an excommunicate person, who is to be rebuked as a brother, 2 Thes. 3. 15. and so is to be a hearer of the word, and for whose good we use the medicine of excommunication, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord, 1 Cor. 5. 4. We ask if (the doctrine of Independency standing) we are not also totally to separate from an excommunicate person in the very external Church-communion of hearing the word, seeing ten excommunicated persons joined in Covenant for hearing of the word, are no Church, no Body, no Spouse of Christ. We see not how we are not by the former grounds totally to separate from them.