A42763:187
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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Furthermore, the line of Ecclesiastical subordination is longer and further stretched then the line of civill subordination; for a National Synod must be subordinate and subject to an universal Synod, in the manner aforesaid, whereas yet there is no Ecumenical Parliament or general civill Court acknowledged, unto which the supreme civill Senate in this or that Nation should be subject. Finally, neither is the Church altogether destitute of nearer remedies, whether an universal council may be had or not.
Furthermore, the line of Ecclesiasticall subordination is longer and further stretched then the line of civill subordination; for a Nationall Synode must be subordinate and subject to an universall Synode, in the manner aforesaid, whereas yet there is no Oecumenicall Parliament or generall civill Court acknowledged, unto which the supreme civill Senate in this or that Nation should bee subject. Finally, neither is the Church altogether destitute of nearer remedies, whether an universall counsell may be had or not.