A peaceable and temperate plea for Pavls Presbyterie in Scotland : or, a modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland, wherein, our discipline is demonstrated to be the true Apostolick way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the indepencie of particular Congregations in defence of Ecclesiaticall Presbyteries, Synods and Assemblies, are examined and tryed
A 1642 London polemical treatise by the Scottish Presbyterian minister Samuel Rutherford, printed for the bookseller John Bartlet, defending Presbyterian church government in Scotland against Independent congregations and addressed to a Puritan readership. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials and a printer's ornament band, with a large C of interlaced scrollwork, a foliate I, a strip of flowers and grotesque figures, and a T flanked by two mermaids, offering designers examples of early modern letter ornament built from acanthus scrolls and dense hatching.
