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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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when the Lord in his Law putteth an express and a differencing, or discriminative character on those that eat, to wit, that they be circumcised and clean who shall eat; Ergo, God, in that putteth an evident inhibition on those that are uncircumcised heathen and unclean, that they are not to eat, as when God Commandeth every Male to be circumcised; we infer then no Female were to be circumcised. And by this means the uncircumcised Moabite, the Philistine, were not by the Priests and Porters debarred out of the Temple, or from the Passover, so they would be circumcised and turn Jews: Even as the child is not excluded by a command of the Master from hearing Sermon, only he is forbidden to clatter in time of Sermon: But a Jew was both forbidden uncleanness Ceremonial by an express Law, and by another Law he was forbidden to come to the Passover; and a heathen, as heathen, was both forbidden to eat, and the Priests forbidden to admit him.
when the Lord in his Law putteth an expresse and a differencing, or discriminative character on those that eat, to wit, that they be circumcised and clean who shall eat; Ergo, God, in that putteth an evident inhibition on those that are uncircumcised heathen and unclean, that they are not to eat, as when God Commandeth every Male to be circumcised; we infer then no Female were to be circumcised. And by this means the uncircumcised Moabite, the Philistine, were not by the Priests and Porters debarred out of the Temple, or from the Passeover, so they would be circumcised and turn Jews: Even as the childe is not excluded by a command of the Master from hearing Sermon, only he is forbidden to clatter in time of Sermon: But a Iew was both forbidden uncleannesse Ceremoniall by an expresse Law, and by another Law he was forbidden to come to the Passeover; and a heathen, as heathen, was both forbidden to eat, and the Priests forbidden to admit him.
Erastus. Though we should grant, That those that eat leaven were debarred from the Passover; yet it shall not follow, that those that live wickedly, shall be debarred from the Lords Supper, for the Feast of unleavened bread, typified not the Supper of the Lord, but the whole time of our life: Otherwise, saith he, (in his Thesis) we may live ⟨p. 349⟩