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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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Their seventh Argument is from the Parisian School,1 All things are yours, 2whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, &c. So they cite Revel. 2. 27. So Robinson, and so Smith, so Parker. 3To whom Christ is given for a King, to them the power of Christ the King is given. Also to whom the covenant and Christ is given, to them all the promises, 2 Corinth. 1. 10. Psalm. 133. 3. Act. 2. 39. And so the power of binding and loosing is given. Answer 1. All are yours ⟨p. 24⟩finaliter, that is, all are for you, and tend to your salvation. 2. All are yours in fructu; in the fruit that God bringeth out of all, Paul or Apollo their ministry, out of life and death, that is, faith, comfort, salvation are yours, this is true, But all are yours, subjective, inhaesive, formaliter, All are yours formally and in possession it is false, for then ye should be all earthly Kings, all Pastors to preach and administer the Sacraments. 2. Christ and the promises are made to one single believer, and that a woman, a child, but a single woman is not the Church, having power to bind and loose in heaven. 3. The promise of binding and loosing is made to the faithful, that is, for their good and edifying, but not to them as the subject, for in that place it is said, The world, life, and death are yours, how can the world be in the faithful as in the subject? They do not possess all the world: how is death in them as the subject, except they be dead?
Their seventh Argument is from the Parisian Schoole,1 All things are yours, 2