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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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Q. 5. How is it that your ruling-Elders do not give imposition of hands,1 and bless Pastors,2 when they are ordained, and so the lesser should bless the greater? So the author of Survey. So D. Field.
Q. 5. How is it that your ruling-Elders doe not give imposition of hands,1 and blesse Pastors,2 when they are ordained, and so the lesser should blesse the grerter? So the author of Survay. So D. Field.
- 1Survey, c. 16. p. 17;Surv•y, c. 16. p. 17;
- 2••ld Chur. l. •. c. 26
Answ. If they judicially consent to imposition of hands, it is sufficient.
Answ. If they judicially cons•nt to imposition of hands, it is sufficient.
2. There is no inconvenience that a ruling Elder, as a part of the Presbytery bless one, who is not yet a Pastor, but to be ordained a Pastor: For the ordainer as he is such is greater then the ordained.