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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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9. There is no Word of God to prove that the Lord hath given the power of th• keys to the King as the King,1 and therefore we are not to believe that he hath any such power. Also if the fore-said power of the keys be given to the Church without any such power ⟨p. 302⟩of the King, the Church by all the former arguments may convene to exercise that power, in preaching, binding, loosing, excommunicating, suppose the civill Magistrate should discharge and inhibit these meetings, for if the power of the keys be given immediately by Christ to the Church, then the power of meeting for the exercise of that power must also be given, though the Magistrate say not Amen, as is clear, Mat. 18. 18, 19, 20, 21. 1 Cor. 5. 4▪ 5. 1 Cor. 11. 19, 20. where the Church had her own Synods without the consent of a civill Magistrate, but we are to repute it a special favour of God, when the King as a nursing-•ather will countenance Synods with his royal presence, God bless our King.
9. There is no Word of God to prove that the Lord hath given the power of th• keyes to the King as the King,1 and therfore we are not to believe that he hath any such power. Also if the fore-said power of the keyes be given to the Church without any such power ⟨p. 302⟩of the King, the Church by all the former arguments may conveene to exercise that power, in preaching, binding, loosing, excommunicating, suppose the civill Magistrate should discharge and inhibit these meetings, for if the power of the keyes be given immediately by Christ to the Church, then the power of meeting for the exercise of that power must also be given, though the Magistrate say not Amen, as is cleare,