A92138:962
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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and this is the very excommunication ⟨p. 351⟩that we assert. 3. This leaven, (saith he) may signify natural corruption: Now Erastus putteth us to (a may be,) but (a may be) will not do it: For the Text saith not, I hope, by Erastus his confession, that the poor man must be delivered to Satan, that is, miraculously killed, for natural concupiscence. All the world thus are delivered to Satan, as being heirs of wrath for sin Original, at least in demerit. 2. The man was not judged, purged out, and cast out, as leaven that soured the Church, for natural corruption. 3. Paul offendeth not with them, that they were puffed and mourned not for the mans Original sin, but for his actual wickedness, because he had gone in to his fathers wife, an Abomination that the Gentiles are ashamed to name.
and this is the very excommunication ⟨p. 351⟩that we assert. 3. This leaven, (saith he) may signifie naturall corruption: Now Erastus putteth us to (a may be,) but (a may be) will not do it: For the Text saith not, I hope, by Erastus his confession, that the poor man must be delivered to Satan, that is, miraculously killed, for naturall concupiscence. All the world thus are delivered to Satan, as being heirs of wrath for sin Originall, at least in demerit. 2. The man was not judged, purged out, and cast out, as leaven that sowred the Church, for naturall corruption. 3. Paul offendeth not with them, that they were puffed and mourned not for the mans Originall sin, but for his actuall wickednesse, because he had gone in to his fathers wife, an Abomination that the Gentiles are ashamed to name.
Erastus. Then the man must be killed, as he that eat leavened1 bread was killed: and though the punishments of Moses Law as such, must not be brought in the Christian Church, yet if God subject men to the Magistrates Sword, men cannot free them from it, though there may be degrees of punishment.