CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church

Wherefore seeing these nursing fathers, favourers, and defenders, can do nothing against the Trueth, but for the Trueth, nor have any right against the Gospel, but for the Gospel; and their power in respect of the Church whereof they bear the care, being not privative or destructive, but cumulative and auxiliary, thereby it is sufficiently clear, that they ought to cherish, and by their authority ought to establish the Ecclesiastical Discipline; but yet not with implicit faith, or blind obedience: For the Reformed Churches do not deny to any of the faithful, much less to the Magistrate, the judgement of Christian prudence and discretion concerning those things which are decreed or determined by the Church.

Wherefore seeing these nursing fathers, favourers, and defenders, can doe nothing against the Trueth, but for the Trueth, nor have any right against the Gospel, but for the Gospel; and their power in respect of the Church whereof they bear the care, being not privative or destructive, but cumulative and auxiliary, thereby it is sufficiently cleare, that they ought to cherish, and by their authority ought to establish the Ecclesiasticall Discipline; but yet not with implicite faith, or blinde obedience: For the Reformed Churches doe not deny to any of the faithfull, much lesse to the Magistrate, the judgement of Christian prudence and discretion concerning those things which are decreed or determined by the Church.