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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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Church-Assemblies and the power of censures.
There are Assemblies in our Church, as were in the Apostolic Church, Act. 1. 15, 16. Act 6. 2, 3, 4. Act. 11. 1, 2, 3. Act. 15. 6, 7, 8. &c. They handle only matters merely ecclesiastical, what is scandalous, and what may edify, Mat. 18. 18, 19, 20. 1 Cor. 5. 5, 6. but no things civill which belong to the civill Magistrate, Luk. 22. 25, 26, 27. Luk. 12, 13, 14, 15. Rom. 13. 4, 5, 6. compared with Rom. 12. 6, 7, 8.
THere are Assemblies in our Church, as were in the Apostolick Church, Act. 1. 15, 16. Act 6. 2, 3, 4. Act. 11. 1, 2, 3. Act. 15. 6, 7, 8. &c. They handle only matters meerly ecclesiasticall, what is scandalous, and what may edifie, Mat. 18. 18, 19, 20.