A92138:615
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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Leviticus 10. 10. The Priests were not to drink wine, when they1 went into the Tabernacle: That ye may (saith the Lord) put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean: Now Haggai expressly saith, cap. 2. 11, 12. That it was the Priests part to put this difference, and so to admit to, or exclude from the holy things of God.
Leviticus 10. 10. The Priests were not to drink wine, when they1 went into the Tabernacle: That ye may (saith the Lord) put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean: Now Haggai expresly saith, cap. 2. 11, 12. That it was the Priests part to put this difference, and so to admit to, or exclude from the holy things of God.
- 1Moral guiltiness excluded men from holy things amongst the Jews.Morall guiltinesse excluded men from holy things amongst the Iews.
Hence for this cause it is said, as 2 Chron. 23. 19. Jehoiada appointed the officers of the Lords house, so he set porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that none which are unclean in any thing, might enter in; so Ezra 9. 21, 22. None did eat the Passover, but such as were pure, and had separated themselves from the filthiness of the Heathen of the land; for this cause doth the Lord complain of the ⟨p. 243⟩Priests, Ezech. 22. 26