All things though never so small, are alike unalterable, if they be stamped with God’s authority speaking in the Scripture.
Now, for these things that are smaller or weightier, we hold they are not in their weightiness or smallness of importance to be considered, but as the authority of God hath imprinted a necessity on them, so are they obligatory to us: I am obliged to receive this as Scripture, that Paul left his cloak at Troas; no lesse than this, Christ came into the world to save sinners, in regard of Canonicall authority stamped upon both.
Samuel Rutherford, The Divine Right of Church-government and Excommunication (London, 1648), p. 64.
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