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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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6. If the Magistrate have such a joint power of binding and loosing, 1and of forgiving and retaining sins with the Church, then also with the Apostles and their successors; but Christ gave this power to his Apostles without any such condition, Matth. 28. 18, 19. John •0. 22, 23. and they practised this power without consent of the Magistrate, and preached and excommunicated against his will, 1 Tim. 1. 19, 20. 1 Cor. 5. 4. yea, as the Father sent Christ, so should the Father have sent the civill Magistrate, for so are they sent who have power to forgive and retain sins, John 20. 21, 22, 23.
6. If the Magistrate have such a joynt power of binding and loosing, 1and of forgiving and reteining sins with the Church, then also with the Apostles and their successours; but Christ gave this power to his Apostles without any such condition, Matth. 28. 18, 19. John •0. 22, 23. and they practised this power without consent of the Magistrate, and preached and excommunicated against his will, 1 Tim. 1. 19, 20. 1 Cor. 5. 4. yea, as the Father sent Christ, so should the Father have sent the civill Magistrate, for so are they sent who have power to forgive and retaine sinnes, John 20. 21, 22, 23.
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