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CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church
Edinburgh: printed by Evan Tyler, 1647
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To the object also of Ecclesiastical power belongeth the assembling of Synods, so far as they are spiritual Assemblies proper to the Church, and assembled in the holy Ghost; for being so considered, the governors of Churches after the example of the Apostles and Presbyters, Acts 1 5. in a manifest danger of the Church, ought to use their own right of meeting together and convening, that the Churches endangered may be relieved and supported.
To the object also of Ecclesiasticall power belongeth the assembling of Synodes, so far as they are spirituall Assemblies proper to the Church, and assembled in the holy Ghost; for being so considered, the governours of Churches after the example of the Apostles and Presbyters, Acts 1 5. in a manifest danger of the Church, ought to use their owne right of meeting together and conveening, that the Churches endangered may be relieved and supported.
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Thirdly, Those powers are differenced in respect of their forms, and that three ways: For first the Civill power, although in respect of God it be Ministerial, yet in respect of the Subjects it is Lordly and Magisterial. Ecclesiastical power is indeed furnished with authority, yet that authority is liker the Fatherly then the Kingly authority; Yea also tis purely Ministerial, much less can it be lawful to Ministers of the Church to bear dominion over the flock.