A92138:1253
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
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Erastus answereth, The Prophet Ezek. 23. accuseth not the Priests1 or Elders, that they debarred not those Murderers from the Temple and Sacraments, if there had been any precept for this, some footstep should have appeared in Gods rebuking of them.
Erastus answereth, The Prophet Ezek. 23. accuseth not the Priests1 or Elders, that they debarred not those Murtherers from the Temple and Sacraments, if there had been any precept for this, some footstep should have appeared in Gods rebuking of them.
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Ans. The Lord doth not particularly reprove the Priests by name in every place, in which he reproveth the people: But expressly for this same very sin, the Lord reproveth the Priests,1 Ezek. 44. 7. Let it suffice you, that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary to pollute it - 8▪ And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my charge, in my sanctuary, for your selves. 24. And in controversy they shall stand in judgement (he had spoken of their teaching the people to discern between ⟨p. 453⟩the clean and the unclean, v. 23.) and they shall judge it according to my judgements, and they shall keep my Laws and my Statutes in all mine assemblies, and hallow my Sabbaths, so