A92138:1515
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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Quest. 22.
Whether appeals are to be made from the Assemblies of the Church, to the civill Magistrate, King or Parliament? and of Paul his appeal to Cesar.
For the clearer explanation of the question, its possible these considerations may help to give light, 1. There be these opinions touching the point: Some exclude the Magistrate from all care1 of Church-discipline, •. As Jesuits and Papists will have Princes not to examine what the Church, the Pope and the cursed Clergy of Rome decrees in their Synods. To these the Sorbonists of Paris oppose, and the Parliament of France cause to be burnt by the hand of the hangman, any writings of Jesuits that diminisheth the just right of the Magistrate. 2. Those who in the Low-countries did remonstrate under the name of Arminians, as they are called, hold, that the Magistrate ought to tolerate all Religions, even Turkism and Judaism not excepted, because the conscience of man cannot be compelled: Some of them were Socinians▪ as Henry Slatius, who ⟨p. 579⟩saith right down, he that useth the sword, or seeketh a Magistracy▪