A92138:853
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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Ans. He could as well direct them to remove scandals for time to come, as he could after his Resurrection say, Mat. 28. 19, 20. Go teach and baptize all Nations, which commandment they were not presently to follow, but Act. 1. 4. to stay at Jerusalem, and not To teach all Nations, while the Holy Ghost should come: I ask of Erastus, how Christ could lay a Ministry on his Disciples, which was not in the world? What directions doth Christ, Mat. 24. and Luk. 21. give to his Church and Disciples that they had not occasion to1 obey many years after? is how they should behave themselves, when they should be called, before Kings and Rulers: 2. Nor were the Apostles who were already in the room of Priests and Prophets to Teach and Baptize (he after being to institute the other Sacrament) to wonder at a new form already half instituted, and which differed not in nature from the former Government, save that the Ceremonies were to be abolished.
Ans. He could as well direct them to remove scandals for time to come, as he could after his Resurrection say, Mat. 28. 19, 20. Go teach and baptize all Nations, which commandment they were not presently to follow, but Act. 1. 4. to stay at Jerusalem, and not To teach all Nations, while the Holy Ghost should come: I ask of Erastus, how Christ could lay a Ministery on his Disciples, which was not in the world? What directions doth Christ, Mat. 24. and Luk. 21. give to his Church and Disciples that they had not occasion to1 obey many years after? is how they should behave themselves, when they should be called, before Kings and Rulers: 2. Nor were the Apostles who were already in the room of Priests and Prophets to Teach and Baptize (he after being to institute the other Sacrament) to wonder at a new forme already half instituted, and which differed not in nature from the former Government, save that the Ceremonies were to be abolshed.