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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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2. He is the head of the persons who make the Church, and so is a politic head, but he is not the head of the Church visible, as it is such. The head visible and member• are of one nature, the King as King is a politic and civill head, the visible Church is not a politic and civill,1 but an ecclesiastic body, so Camero erreth who will have all Church-men synodically constituting and decreeing Canons, and in all acts of external government subordinate to the King as King, as the instruments and servants are subordinate to the principal cause and first commander. 1. Because then the King should be the principal ecclesiastic matter, and prime Canon maker, the King the first excommunicator when the Church excommunicateth; but the members of a Church-Synod are immediately subordinate to Christ whose servants and instruments they are, and not the servants of the King. Nathan as a man was Davids servant, but as a Prophet he was Gods servant, and not Davids servant.
2. He is the head of the persons who make the Church, and so is a politick head, but he is not the head of the Church visible, as it is such. The head visible and member• are of one nature, the King as King is a politicke and civill head, the visible Church is not a politick and civill,1 but an ecclesiastick body, so Camero erreth who will have all Church-men synodically constituting and decreeing Canons, and in all acts of externall government subordinate to the King as King, as the instruments and servants are subordinate to the principall cause and first commander. 1. Because then the King should be the principall ecclesiastick matter, and prime Canon maker, the King the first excommunicater when the Church excommunicateth; but the members of a Church-Synod are immediately subordinate to Christ whose servants and instruments they are, and not the servants of the King. Nathan as a man was Davids servant, but as a Prophet he was Gods servant, and not Davids servant.
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