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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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8. If a woe be due to a Pastor,1 if he preach not, suppose the Magistrate should forbid him to preach,2 then also is a woe due to the Church,3 which useth not the keys, though the Magistrate forbid, then hath the Magistrate no such voice, and if the Church of Pergamos be rebuked for not using the power of the keys against these who held the Doctrine of Balaam and the Nicolaitanes even when the Magistrate was a killer of the witnesses of Jesus, then the Magistrat• hath no such negative voice, for it should not be possible to censure the followers of such Doctrine, seeing, he was against both Doctrine and Discipline, but the Lord reproveth P•rgamos in this case, Revelation 2. ver. 13, 14, 15.
8. If a woe be due to a Pastor,1 if he preach not, suppose the Magistrate should forbid him to preach,2 then also is a woe due to the Church,3 which useth not the keyes, though the Magistrate forbid, then hath the Magistrate no such voyce, and if the Church of Pergamos be rebuked for not using the power of the keyes against these who held the Doctrine of Balaam and the Nicolaitanes even when the Magistrate was a killer of the witnesses of Jesus, then the Magistrat• hath no such negative voyce, for it should not be possible to censure the followers of such Doctrine, seeing, hee was against both Doctrine and Discipline, but the Lord reproveth P•rgamos in this case, Revelation 2. ver. 13, 14, 15.