A42763:13
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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The Church ought to be governed by no other persons then Ministers and Stewards preferred and placed by Christ, and after no other manner then according to the Laws made by him; and therefore, there is no power on earth which may challenge to it self Authority or Dominion over the Church: But whosoever they are that would have the things of Christ to be administered not according to the Ordinance and will of Christ revealed in his Word, but as it liketh them, and according to their own will and prescript, what other thing go they about to do then by horrible sacrilege to throw down Christ from his own Throne.
The Church ought to bee governed by no other persons then Ministers and Stewards preferred and placed by Christ, and after no other manner then according to the Laws made by him; and therefore, there is no power on earth which may chalenge to it self Authority or Dominion over the Church: But whosoever they are that would have the things of Christ to bee administred not according to the Ordinance and will of Christ revealed in his Word, but as it liketh them, and according to their own will and prescript, what other thing goe they about to doe then by horrible sacriledge to throw down Christ from his own Throne.