A92138:817
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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2. The Minor is false in the sense we contend for, the office of a Publican in abstracto was not execrable, nor worthy of hatred:1 but the thing signified, and that which proverbially went under the name of a Publican amongst the Jews, to wit, a professed extortioner, a robber, a grinder of the face of the poor, is both execrable and hateful: the conclusion in the former sense is granted, and it is nothing against us: But in the latter sense, the Assumption being false, the conclusion followeth not; not to say that in ordinary, none was a Publican, but he that was either an heathen, and so execrable, or then an Apostate wretched lewd Jew.
2. The Minor is false in the sense we contend for, the office of a Publican in abstracto was not execrable, nor worthy of hatred:1 but the thing signified, and that which proverbially went under the name of a Publican amongst the Iewes, to wit, a professed extortioner, a robber, a grinder of the face of the poore, is both execrable and hatefull: the conclusion in the former sense is granted, and it is nothing against us: But in the latter sense, the Assumption being false, the conclusion followeth not; not to say that in ordinary, none was a Publican, but he that was either an heathen, and so execrable, or then an Apostate wretched leud Iew.
- 1P. 192. 193.
Erastus. But I have demonstrated that no man was debarred from holy things for Moral uncleanness, then neither should a Publican be counted a separated man, will Christ command him to be cast out whom the Jews could by no Law cast out?
Erastus. But I have demonstrated that no man was debarred from holy things for Morall uncleannesse, then neither should a Publican be counted a separated man, will Christ command him to be cast out whom the Iewes could by no Law cast out?