A86000:112
A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded…
A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late General Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianism, independency, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1647
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Moreover when the Church is rent asunder by unhappy and lamentable Schisms, while they who have raised the troubles, and have given cause of solemn gathering a Synod (whether by their Heresy, or Schism, or Tyranny, or any other fault of others) use to place the great strength and safeguard of their cause in declining and fleeing the trial and sentence of a free Synod, as being formidable to them: Who seeth not that they cannot be drawn to a public and judicial trial, nor other disobedient persons be compelled to ⟨p. 23⟩obedience without the Magistrates public mandate and help?
Moreover when the Church is rent asunder by unhappy and lamentable Shcismes, while they who have raised the troubles, and have given cause of solemne gathering a Synode (whether by their Heresie, or Schisme, or Tyranny, or any other fault of others) use to place the great strength and safeguard of their cause in declining and fleeing the tryall and sentence of a free Synode, as being formidable to them: Who seeth not that they cannot be drawn to a publick and judiciall tryall, nor other disobedient persons be compelled to ⟨p. 23⟩obedience without the Magistrates publick mandate and help?