The judgement of a most reverend and learned man from beyond the seas concerning…The iudgement of a most reuerend and learned man from beyond the seas concerning…

The third question.

Whether the king or the bishops are to call the assembly of the Church, and as concerning what matters they may make laws.

Whether the king or the bishops are to call the assembly of the Church, and as concernyng what matters they may make lawes.

To the third question.

We have answered the first part ⟨image 19⟩of this question already. To the second we answer. First it is not lawful, no not for the angels themselves, to make any laws for the conscience, but the church is to be upholden by those which the Lord hath enacted, seeing we are now to look for no new revelation, the whole counsel of God touching our salvation, being fully & perfectly made manifest. Our judgement also is, that the discipline or good order is to be sought for out of the word of God, and to be kept inviolable, as the second part of christian doctrine. Yet there remaineth two things, whereof there may, yea and there ought to be laws set down in the Church. For first of all, where as every thing is not expressly and in so many words set down in the writings of the Prophets and Apostles: therefore in controversies both concerning doctrine and the substance of Church discipline, the Council ought to comprehend the deciding of them in unfallible and plain heads, as by certain rules, like as it was done profitably in those right approved Councils