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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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WE acknowledge the Scriptures of God contained in the Old and New Testament to contain the whole doctrine of faith and good manners, our Covenant rejecteth all traditions contrary, without and beside the word of God, and so it rejecteth all religious ⟨p. 309⟩observances, all humane Ceremonies, all religious symbolical signs, all new means of worshipping God, all Images, positive Rites which have any influence in Gods worship as will-worship, and impious additions to Gods word, Jer. 7. 7. 2 Sam. 7. 7. Deut. 12. 32. Deut. 4. 2. Lev. 10. 2. Heb. 1. 13. Heb. 7. 14. 1 Chron. 15. 13. 1 King. 12. 32. Mat. 15. 14. Rev. 22. 18. whereas they want warrant from Gods word. All actions of divine worship, all religious means of worship, all actions of moral conversation must be warranted by ([Greek or Hebrew]) according as it is written, for the which cause our Church condemneth kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper, all Holy-days dedicated to God or Saints, except the Lords-day, confirmation, bed-communion, surplice, corner-cap, &c. because they are acts of worship and religious means of worship, not according to the word, as is clearly shown to the Reader by the following Categoric Tables, where all right worship, moral acts of discipline and conversation that are lawful will bide the trial of this (according as it is written) even to the last specific and individual humane act, and where the last individual act is proved, all the rest in that same Category is proved: As when I prove Peter to be a man, I prove him to be a sensitive creature, a living creature, a bodily substance, &c. which no man seeth in the Category of humane Ceremonies and unlawful offices. Hence our first Category.