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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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21. If the power of the keys be given to all believers, a question is, 1. If Pastors have no other power of the keys, but that same that believers have, seeing the ground of Christs gift is one and the same, to wit, alike interest in Christ, and if alike power of preaching, baptizing, excommunicating be in Paul, and all believers? 2. Whither or no the calling of Christ and his Church doth not superadd and confer to him who is made a pastor some farther power of the keys, then h• had before he was clothed with any such cal•ing, seeing, to rebuke, exhort and comfort one another, are d•ties of the law of nat••e, and would oblige all, suppose Christ had given the […] of the keys to none at all, we see not, but our brethren must deny that the calling of the Church giveth any other power of the keys then the believer had before he was called. 3. If there be not a greater power of preaching, baptizing and binding and loosing in the believers then in pastors, seeing believers give the power to pastors, and may take it away again.
21. If the power of the keyes be given to all believers, a question is, 1. If Pastors have no other power of the keyes, but that same that believers have, seeing the ground of Christs gift is one and the same, to wit, alike interest in Christ, and if alike power of preaching, baptizing, excommunicating be in Paul, and all believers? 2. Whither or no the calling of Christ and his Church doth not superadde and conf•rre to him who is made a pastour some farther power of the keyes, then h• had before he was cloathed with any such cal•ing, seeing, to rebuke, exhort and comfort one another, are d•ties of the law of nat••e, and would oblige all, suppose Christ had given the 〈…〉 of the keyes to none at all, wee see not, but our brethren must deny that the calling of the Church giveth any other power of the keyes then the believer had before he was called. 3. If there be not a greater power of preaching, baptizing and binding and loosing in the believers then in pastors, seeing believers give the power to pastours, and may take it away againe.