A92138:948
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. 7.
Erastus. I shall grant (since Beza will have it so) that Paul 1expoundeth the Ceremony of leaven, in the celebration of the ⟨p. 345⟩passover, and that he doth not only allude to it: Paul compareth the feast of unleavened bread to the pilgrimage of our life in this world, and leaven signifieth wickedness: Hence as the Jews all the time of the feast might eat no leavened bread, so all our life are we to leave and forsake the world and journey toward our promised Canaan, we are never to live wickedly, What can hence be collected? but as he that eat unleavened bread, was to be killed, so should every wicked man be killed? He that eat leavened bread in these seven days, was not commanded to be debarred from the Passover: And the Passover was the beginning of this feast, as faith in Christ was the beginning of our spiritual eating of Christ crucified for us, and of our new Christian life.
Erastus. I shall grant (since Beza will have it so) that Paul 1