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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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2. By this comparison, the Prelate putteth upon the King •ut a course piece of country honour. O (faith he) as King, I make him above all, and subject to no power in Heaven or Earth, but immediately to God; forsooth so make you the Painter, the Shoemaker, the Fashioner subject to no power in Heaven and Earth, no not to the King, but only immediately to God, only their persons are subject to the King, and so is the person of the King as a Christian man, not as a King, subject to Pastors, who may exhort him and rebuke him when he judgeth unjustly.
2. By this comparison, the Prelate putteth upon the King •ut a course peece of country honour. O (faith he) as King, I make him above all, and subject to no power in Heaven or Earth, but immediately to God; forsooth so make you the Painter, the Shoomaker, the Fashioner subject to no power in Heaven and Earth, no not to the King, but only immediately to God, only their persons are subject to the King, and so is the person of the King as a Christian man, not as a King, subject to Pastors, who may exhort him and rebuke him when he judgeth unjustly.
But 3. saith the Prelate, The wounded Emperor is subject to his servant the Physician who cureth him, not as Emperor, but as a wounded man, and that of his own free-will and not by coaction. What meaneth this (not by coaction) but that a King, neither as King, neither as a Christian man is subject to Church-discipline, to the admonition of Pastors, by any ecclesiastical coaction, or any law of God, but of the Kings own free-will? Consider how Court-parasites do dishonour the Lord, for if Nathan by Gods commandment was obliged to rebuke David for his adultery and murder, and the man of God ⟨p. 307⟩obliged to cry against Jeroboam's Altar, and the Seer obliged to reprove King Asa, and Jeremiah commanded to speak against the Kings and Princes of the land, and if the Kings of Israel and Judah were plagued of God, because they would not hear and submit to the Prophets speaking to them in the name of the Lord, then the King as a Christian man is subject to the Ecclesiastical power, not of his own free-will, as this flatterer saith, but by such Ecclesiastical coaction as God layeth upon all men, whose spirits are subject to Christs kingly power.