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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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Where matters are difficile to inferior Assemblies, and parties wronged, and there is no small dissension, then ⟨p. 323⟩references and appeals are made to the greater Assemblies, and they determine that Paul and Barnabas, or A. B. and S. •. go to Jerusalem, or the place of the next Assembly to the Pastors and Elders about this question, as 1, 2.
Where matters are difficile to inferiour Assemblies, and parties wronged, and there is no small dissension, then ⟨p. 323⟩references and appeales are made to the greater Assemblies, and they determine that Paul and Barnabas, or A. B. and S. •. goe to Jerusalem, or the place of the next Assembly to the Pastors and Elders about this question, as 1, 2.
All our inferior Assemblies have brotherly correspondence by mutual advise and counsel one with another, but none have authoritative power over another, as 1 Cor. 16. 1, 2, 3, 4. 2 Cor. 8. 1, 2, 3. Col. 4. 17. By reason of our Assemblies, no man though most eminent in gifts, piety, or authority, may play the Diotrephes, 3 John v. 10. or hath power to cast out the brethren out of the Church.
All our inferiour Assemblies have brotherly correspondence by mutuall advise and counsell one with another, but none have authoritative power over another, as