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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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I answer, the infallible rule of judging for both is ⟨p. 304⟩the Word of God, which speaketh home unpartially to both, if they will hear, but certainly the Kings civill, kingly coactive power to compel men to do their duty remaineth the highest and most supreme power on Earth, in genere potestatis politicae, in the kind of politic power, and pastors and all men may, by this power, be compelled to do right, as for the abuse of the power, it is no part of the power, and in this kind the King hath a negative politic and kingly suffrage and voice in all Church Assemblies, no ecclesiastical constitution hath the force of a law without the politic suffrage of the civill Judge. And again the ecclesiastic power that Christ hath given to his Church remaineth: also the most supreme power under Christ in genere potestatis ecclesiasticae, and the King is subject to this power. The King is not excepted in this, He that despiseth you despiseth me, and in this, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and in this, whose sins ye remit, they are remitted, and whose sins ye retain they are retained, and this ecclesiastical power being the highest on Earth, Pastors may command Kings in the Lord, Jer. 1. 10, 18, 17. to do their duty by an ecclesiastic power. Arminians and Formalists both ask which of the two powers are highest, and nearest unto the head Christ, whither the kingly power, or the ecclesiastic power, for two parallel highest powers on earth cannot be.
I answer, the infallible rule of judging for both is ⟨p. 304⟩the Word of God, which speaketh home unpartially to both, if they will heare, but certainly the Kings civill, kingly coactive power to compell men to doe their duty remaineth the highest and most supream power on Earth, in genere potestatis politicae, in the kind of politick power, and pastors and all men may, by this power, be compelled to do right, as for the abuse of the power, it is no part of the power, and in this kind the King hath a negative politick and kingly suffrage and voyce in all Church Assemblies, no ecclesiasticall constitution hath the force of a law without the politick suffrage of the civill Judge. And againe the ecclesiastick power that Christ hath given to his Church remaineth: also the most supreme power under Christ in genere potestatis ecclesiasticae, and the King is subject to this power. The King is not excepted in this, He that despiseth you despiseth me, and in this, whatsoever ye shall binde on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and in this, whose sinnes ye remit, they are remitted, and whose sinnes ye retaine they are retained, and this ecclesiasticall power being the highest on Earth, Pastors may command Kings in the Lord,