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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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1. Concl. 1Presbyterial government, and the regal power of Monarchs do well consist: Paul a favourer of this government, 1 Tim. 4. 14. commandeth that prayers be put up to God for Kings and all who are in authority, and so do we teach.
1. Concl. 1Presbyteriall government, and the regall power of Monarchs doe well consist: Paul a favourer of this government, 1 Tim. 4. 14. commandeth that prayers be put up to God for Kings and all who are in authority, and so doe we teach.
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2. Conclusion. 1Our adversaries here corrupt the mind of Cartwright, 2Viretus, Calvin, and others, who say that the authority of Kings come immediately from God as Creator,3 and not from God in Christ as Mediator:4 For the kingly power is considered two ways, 1. In general, as kingly, and in the person of heathen Princes, who know nothing of God as a Redeemer in the Mediator. And so the kingly power in general as given for the good of all humane societies in general, is from God the Creator for the good of all societies whither heathen or Christian. So Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Nero, and Julian were essentially Kings, and yet had not their kingly power immediately from the Mediator Christ, except in this general sense that the kingly power is a lawful ordinance of God warranted by the word of God, and Testament of our Testator Jesus Christ, because