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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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Answ. 1. Where Paul setteth down in order officers by their special names, ordinary and extraordinary, as ⟨p. 282⟩first Apostles, secondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers, &c. he cannot reckon out generals only, for so Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, should be also but generals, for the words in Scripture also signify generals.
Answ. 1. Where Paul setteth downe in order officers by their speciall names, ordinary and extraordinary, as ⟨p. 282⟩first Apostles, secondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers, &c. he cannot reckon out generals only, for so Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, should be also but generals, for the words in Scripture also signifie generals.
2. The enumeration should halt, which yet is orderly set down, if it were composed of a number of particulars and the generals of some easten in amongst them.
Neither can some here well understand the civill Magistrate. 1. Because he speaketh of the Church as the body of Christ consisting of divers members ecclesiastical, And God hath set some i• the Church, and also he speaketh of the Church, Rom. 12. 5. seeing we being many are one body in Christ, and in that place the ruler is clearly differenced from the teaching Doctor, v. 7. from the exhorting Pastor, and him who showeth mercy in the Church, but the civill Magistrate is not a Church officer whom God hath set in the Church, as he hath set Apostles, Prophets, &c. for God hath set him in [Greek or Hebrew], in the Common-wealth, and his influence in governing Gods house is merely civill, coactive and regal, not pastoral, ecclesiastic and ministerial.