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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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5. He hath power in actibus imperatis, to command that all preach sound Doctrine, decree just Canons, exercise discipline aright, but in actibus elicitis, in acts performed by an intrinsical power in the agent, he hath no power: for the King as King cannot preach himself, nor baptize, &c. as the will may command the eye to see, the feet to walk, but the will doth not see nor walk: Here two errors are to be rebuked.
5. He hath power in actibus imperatis, to command that all preach sound Doctrine, decree just Canons, exercise discipline aright, but in actibus elicitis, in acts performed by an intrinsecall power in the agent, he hath no power: for the King as King cannot preach himselfe, nor baptize, &c. as the will may command the eye to see, the feet to walke, but the will doth not see nor walk: Here two errours are to be rebuked.
1. Whitgift saith, 1the King is not the head of the Church as it is a society of elect and believers, for so the government is spiritual, but he is the head of the Church, as it is a visible society in external government, comprehending ⟨p. 299⟩good and evil. For 1. The government visible and external is merely ecclesiastical, by Christs spiritual laws and censures, of rebuking, binding, loosing and excommunicating; but the King is not an ecclesiastical person, and so not the head who hath any intrinsical influence as King in these acts.
1. Whitgift saith, 1the King is not the head of the Church as it is a society of elect and believers, for so the government is spirituall, but he is the head of the Church, as it is a visible society in externall government, comprehending ⟨p. 299⟩good and evill. For 1. The government visible and externall is meerly ecclesiasticall, by Christs spirituall lawes and censures, of rebuking, binding, loosing and excommunicating; but the King is not an ecclesiasticall person, and so not the head who hath any intrinsecall influence as King in these acts.