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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.