A92138:1142
The divine right of church-government and excommunication
The divine right of church-government and excommunication: or a peaceable dispute for the perfection of the holy scripture in point of ceremonies and church government; in which the removal of the Service-book is justified, the six books of Tho: Erastus against excommunication are briefly examined; with a vindication of that eminent divine Theod: Beza against the aspersions of Erastus, the arguments of Mr. William Pryn, Rich: Hooker, Dr. Morton, Dr. Jackson, Dr. John Forbes, and the doctors of Aberdeen; touching will-worship, ceremonies, imagery, idolatry, things indifferent, an ambulatory government; the due and just powers of the magistrate in matters of religion, and the arguments of Mr. Pryn, in so far as they side with Erastus, are modestly discussed. To which is added, a brief tractate of scandal ... / By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Published by authority.The divine right of church-government and excommunication: or a peacable dispute for the perfection of the holy scripture in point of ceremonies and church government; in which the removal of the Service-book is justifi'd, the six books of Tho: Erastus against excommunication are briefly examin'd; with a vindication of that eminent divine Theod: Beza against the aspersions of Erastus, the arguments of Mr. William Pryn, Rich: Hooker, Dr. Morton, Dr. Jackson, Dr. John Forbes, and the doctors of Aberdeen; touching will-worship, ceremonies, imagery, idolatry, things indifferent, an ambulatory government; the due and just powers of the magistrate in matters of religion, and the arguments of Mr. Pryn, in so far as they side with Erastus, are modestly discussed. To which is added, a brief tractate of scandal ... / By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Published by authority.
London: printed by John Field for Christopher Meredith, 1646
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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Erastus. The Lord Jesus changed nothing in the New Testament1 of that most wise Government in the Jewish Church, now there all Government was in the hands of Moses: I say not, that the Magistrate might sacrifice, or do what was proper to the Priests, but he did dispose and order what was to be done by the Priests.
Erastus. The Lord Jesus changed nothing in the New Testament1 of that most wise Government in the Iewish Church, now there all Government was in the hands of Moses: I say not, that the Magistrate might sacrifice, or do what was proper to the Priests, but he did dispose and order what was to be done by the Priests.
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Ans. Yea, but Erastus saith, the Magistrate may dispense word and Sacraments in the New Testament, if he had leisure: Why might he not sacrifice in the Old Testament also? 2. Pastors do by their Doctrine and Discipline, order and regulate all callings in their Morals of right and wrong, of just and unjust; yet is not the Pastor the only Governor in all externals. 3. If Christ changed nothing of the Jewish Government, we have all their exclusion of men out of the Camp, their separating of the unclean, and their politic and Ceremonial Laws, which is unsound Divinity.
Ans. Yea, but Erastus saith, the Magistrate may dispense word and Sacraments in the New Testament, if he had leisure: Why might he not sacrifice in the Old Testament also? 2. Pastors do by their Doctrine and Discipline, order and regulate all callings in their Moralls of right and wrong, of just and unjust; yet is not the Pastor the only Governour in all externals. 3. If Christ changed nothing of the Iewish Government, we have all their exclusion of men out of the Campe, their separating of the unclean, and their politick and Ceremoniall Lawes, which is unsound Divinity.