A42763:183
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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If any man shall prosecute the argument, and say that yet no remedy is here showed, which may be applied to the injustice or error of a National Synod: surely he stumbleth against the same stone, seeing he weigheth not the matter with an equal balance; for the same may in like sort fall back and be cast upon Parliaments, or any supreme Senate of a Common-wealth: for who seeth not the judgement of the ⟨p. 35⟩supreme civill Senate to be nothing more infallible, yea also in matters of Faith and Ecclesiastical Discipline, more apt and prone to error (as being less accustomed to sacred Studies) then the judgement of the National Synod? What medicines then, or what sovereign plasters shall be had which may be fit for the curing and healing of the errors and miscarriages of the supreme Magistrates and Senate? The very like, and beside all this, other and more effectual medicines by which the errors of National Synods may be healed, are possible to be had.
If any man shall prosecute the argument, and say that yet no remedy is here shewed, which may bee applyed to the injustice or errour of a Nationall Synode: surely he stumbleth against the same stone, seeing he weigheth not the matter with an equall balance; for the same may in like sort fall back and be cast upon Parliaments, or any supreme Senate of a Common-wealth: for who seeth not the judgement of the ⟨p. 35⟩supreme civill Senate to be nothing more infallible, yea also in matters of Faith and Ecclesiasticall Discipline, more apt and prone to errour (as being lesse accustomed to sacred Studies) then the judgement of the Nationall Synode? What medicines then, or what soveraigne plaisters shall be had which may be fit for the curing and healing of the errors and miscariages of the supreme Magistrates and Senate? The very like, and beside all this, other and more effectuall medicines by which the errors of Nationall Synods may bee healed, are possible to be had.