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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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Yet ordinarily and by common or known Law and right in settled Churches, if any man have recourse to the Magistrate to complain, that through abuse of Ecclesiastic Discipline, injury is done to him, or if any sentence of the Pastors and Elders of the Church, whether concerning Faith or Discipline, do displease or seem unjust unto the Magistrate himself; it is not for that cause lawful to draw those Ecclesiastical ⟨p. 34⟩causes to a civill tribunal, or to bring in a kind of political or civill Popedom.
Yet ordinarily and by common or known Law and right in settled Churches, if any man have recourse to the Magistrate to complain, that through abuse of Ecclesiastick Discipline, injury is done to him, or if any sentence of the Pastors and Elders of the Church, whether concerning Faith or Discipline, do displease or seem unjust unto the Magistrate himself; it is not for that cause lawfull to draw those Ecclesiasticall ⟨p. 34⟩causes to a civill tribunall, or to bring in a kinde of politicall or civill Popedome.