A92138:964
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. We denied that those that eat leavened bread with the Passover were killed, but only excommunicated and cut off from the congregation: God never subjected any to the sword, for that cause. 2. We deny that therefore by proportion the incestuous man should be killed; by what consequence will Erastus prove that those that gathered sticks on the Lords day, those that are stubborn to Father or Mother, those who commit fornication now in the Israel of God under the New Testament, must be stoned to death by the Magistrate, or miraculously killed by the Apostles? it must be by the same consequence, that Erastus reasoneth here. But did God kill immediately any offenders at all for original sin, some one more nor other? as Erastus dreameth this man was killed. 3. What warrant hath Erastus that the Devil killeth any one of the visible Church now under the New Testament, and any of the children of God, whose spirit are saved in the day of the Lord? proferat tabulas. Erastus saith it, neither Prophet nor Apostle in the Old or New Testament ever said it.
Ans. We denyed that those that eat leavened bread with the Passeover were killed, but onely excommunicated and cut off from the congregation: God never subjected any to the sword, for that cause. 2. We deny that therefore by proportion the incestuous man should be killed; by what consequence will Erastus prove that those that gathered sticks on the Lords day, those that are stubborn to Father or Mother, those who commit fornication now in the Israel of God under the New Testament, must be stened to death by the Magistrate, or miraculously killed by the Apostles? it must be by the same consequence, that Erastus reasoneth here. But did God kill immediatly any offenders at all for originall sin, some one more nor other? as Erastus dreameth this man was killed. 3. What warrant hath Erastus that the Devill killeth any one of the visible Church now under the New Testament, and any of the children of God, whose spirit are saved in the day of the Lord? proferat tabulas. Erastus saith it, neither Prophet nor Apostle in the Old or New Testament ever said it.
Erastus said, an Anagogical sense is not concludent.
Erastus said, an Anagogicall sense is not concludent.