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A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our own arguments [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the answers and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Morton ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our ovvne argumemts [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the ansvveres and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Mortoune ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.
Leiden: printed by W. Christiaens, 1637
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Part 3 › Chapter 8 › Digression 2: DIGRESSION II.Part 3 › Chapter 8 › Digression 2: DISGRESSION II.
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2. The Church is fully committed, (and that directly) to the Ministers whom Christ hath set to rule over the same. Therefore they ought to take care and to provide for all her necessities, as these who must give a count, & be answerable to God for any hurt which she receiveth, in things Spiritual or Ecclesiastical, for which (when they might) they did not provide a remedy: Which being so, it followeth, that when Princes will neither convocat Synods, nor consent to the convocating of them, yet if the convocating of a Synod, be a necessary mean for healing of the Churches hurt, and Ecclesiastical Persons be able, (through the happy occasion of a fit opportunity,) synodically to assemble themselves, in that case they ought by themselves to come together, unless one would say, that Princes alone, and not Pastors, must give a count to God, how it hath gone with the Church, in matters Spiritual and Ecclesiastical.
2. The Church is fully committed, (and that directly) to the Ministers whom Christ hath set to rule over the same. Therefore they ought to take care and to provyde for all her necessities, as these who must give a count, & be answerable to God for any hurt which shee receiveth, in things Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall, for which (when they might) they did not provyde a remedie: Which beeing so, it followeth, that when Princes will neither convocat Synods, nor consent to the convocating of thē, yet if the convocating of a Synod, be a necessary meane for healing of the Churches hurt, and Ecclesiasticall Persons be able, (through the happy occasion of a fit opportunity,) synodically to assemble themselves, in that case they ought by themselves to come togither, unlesse one would say, that Princes alone, and not Pastors, must give a count to God, how it hath gone with the Church, in matters Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall.
If it be objected, that our Divines maintain against Papists, that the right and power of convocating Synods pertaineth to Princes. Ans. And so say I, but for making the purpose more plain I add three distinctions. 1. In ordinary cases, and when Princes are not enemies to the trueth and purity of the Gospel, Ecclesiastical Persons should not do well to assemble themselves together in a Synod, except they be convocate with the authority or consent of Princes. Yet as