A42763:184
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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There wanteth not a Divine Medicine and sovereign Balm in Gilead; for although the Popish opinion of the infallibility of Counsels, be worthily rejected and exploded; yet tis not in vain that Christ hath promised, he shall be present with an Assembly, which indeed and in truth meeteth together in his Name; with such an Assembly verily he useth to be present by a spiritual aide and assistance of his own Spirit, to uphold the falling, or to raise up the fallen. Whence it is that divers times the errors of former Synods are discovered and amended by the latter: sometimes also the second, or after thoughts of one and the same Synod are the wiser and the better.
There wanteth not a Divine Medicine and soveraigne Balme in Gilead; for although the Popish opinion of the infallibility of Counsels, be worthily rejected and exploded; yet tis not in vaine that Christ hath promised, he shall be present with an Assembly, which indeed and in truth meeteth together in his Name; with such an Assembly verily he useth to be present by a spirituall aide and assistance of his own Spirit, to uphold the falling, or to raise up the fallen. Whence it is that divers times the errors of former Synods are discovered and amended by the latter: sometimes also the second, or after thoughts of one and the same Synode are the wiser and the better.