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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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7. ARTICLE.
Public Fasting.
Publike Fasting.
The Fast is indicted eight days before, and the causes laid open for preparing of the people for humiliation, as Joel 2. 1, 2, 3. Isa. 22. 12, 13. We have no anniversary, and set Fasts or Feasts either, because God himself by his judgement imminent, or already inflicted, or by permitting his people to follow their own ⟨p. 316⟩[…] ⟨p. 317⟩[…] ⟨p. 318⟩ways, calleth to fasting and mourning, Isa. 22. 13, Joel 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, &c. and so by his mercies and wonderful deliverances calleth to extraordinary joy of thanksgiving, Psal. 118. 24. The doctrine of the Law is preached, as