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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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Answer. We may oppose Fathers to Fathers, Origen, Hieronymus, 1Ambrose, Cyprian, teach, that the keys were given to Peter as the first in gifts and age,2 and in his person Omnibus Apostolis & successoribus Petri, 3to all the Apostles and successors of Peter, and so Augustine, also, Cyprian, Optatus and Hierome: 4for unities sake Peter only receiveth the Keys, 5but in him all the rest. See more of this in Almain, and Petrus de Alliaco, and Joan. Major. 2. I acknowledge the Fathers teach that Peter received the Keys,6 as Basil saith,7 propter [Greek or Hebrew], for the excellency of his faith. 8that he received the keys for, and to all the faithful, as to the proper subject of the keys. God did promise an established kingdom to Jeroboam, 9if he should walk in Gods statutes:10 it followeth not therefore in the person of Jeroboam, 11that an established kingdom is promised to all that walk in Gods statutes.12 God might have rewarded the faith of Peter as he did the faith of Mary Magdalen, and not have made him an Apostle for his confession. God is free in his rewards,13 and therefore I deny that the confession of Peter,