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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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Cap. 19. Quest 15. Of the use of Excommunication, p. 437 Erastus yieldeth there is a Presbytery, p. 43• The Magistrate under Church-discipline, ib. The Magistrate not a Church-officer, p▪ 440 A Judicature proper to the Priest as Priest, ib. The Magistrate under Ch.-discipline, p. 443 How the Magistrates consent is requisite in Excommunication, ib. The Magistrates Sword no kindly mean of gaining souls, p. 445 The Scandalous are forbidden to partake of holy things, p. 448 The morally unclean debarred out of the Temple, 452, 453 No price of a Whore to be offered to God, and what is meant, p. 454, 455 Our chief Argument for Excommunication not answered, p. 456 The place, Mat. 5. When thou bringest thy gift, &c. discussed, p. 457 How men do judge of inward actions, p. 460 A frequent contradiction in Erastus, p. 462 What it is to be cast out of the Synagogue, p. 464 Christ and the Apostles not cast out of the Synagogue that we read, as Erastus dreams, 467 Ministers subject to the Magistrate, 471, 472 Morally unclean debarred from the holy things, ibid. Tell the Church discussed, p▪ 476, seque Though there was no Christian Church, yet Christ might say, Tell the Church, p. 480 There was no more a right constituted Sanhedrin in Christs time then a Christian Church, ibid. External Government of the Church not in the hands of the Magistrate, 481, 482 Rebuking of Princes argue no less jurisdiction then all that the Presbytery doth, p. 484 Whom Erastus excludeth from the Sacrament, ib ⟨image 12⟩Magistrates, if Scandalous, are to be debarred from the Sacrament, p. 487 Every profession maketh not men capable of the holy things of God, p. 492 All sins punished with death in the Old Testament▪ are not therefore so punished under the New Testament, p. 493 How great sins debar men from the Sacrament, p 497 The Scandalous among the Jews, debarred from the holy things, p. 498 The Magistrate cannot admit to, or debar from the Sacraments, 499 The Sword no intrinsical and kindly mean of gaining souls, p. 500 Of the power of the Christian Magistrate in Ecclesiastical Discipline, p. 503, &c. Idolaters and Apostates are to be excommunicated, as Erastus saith, ibid. The Church as the Church, not subordinate to the Magistrate, ibid. Government peculiar to Church-officers, as to Priests and Levites, p.