A92138:1526
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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6. The question may▪ either be of any really▪ wronged by the ⟨p. 582⟩Church whether he may appeal to the Magistrate, or whether he who either believeth, or thinketh, or falsely lieth, and saith that he was wronged, may appeal to the Magistrate.
6. The question may▪ either be of any really▪ wronged by the ⟨p. 582⟩Church whether he may appeal to the Magistrate, or whether he who either beleeveth, or thinketh, or falsly lyeth, and saith that he was wronged, may appeal to the Magistrate.
7. An Appeal is different from a Declinature, a Declinature is properly a refusing to be judged, because the judge is incompetent, and the business belongeth not to him; those who follow Erastus, and deny all power of censures to the Church, do decline, but not appeal from the Church, thinking the Church hath no power at all to judge or censure the scandalous. An Appeal is properly from the same inferior judicature, to a superior judge, in eadem 1serie, in the same kind, and it is either proper or unproper: Proper it is, when a particular Church doth appeal to a Synod of many Churches in the same place: Unproper, when either a wronged person hath recourse to one or many Pastors of Authority, as Chrysostom, Flavianus, Athanasius appealed to the Bishop of Rome, that he would request the Church to proceed orderly: Or, 2. The godly Magistrate would command that the Church would unpartially proceed to right an oppressed man, as Cabeljavius saith. Or, 3. When there is no Synods to be had, then as Triglandius 2