A86000:118
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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'Tis true, that about the same things the civill Power is occupied, as touching the outward man, or the outward disposing of divine things in this or that Dominion, as was said; not as they are Spiritual and Evangelical Ordinances piercing into the conscience it self; but the object of the Power ecclesiastical ⟨p. 24⟩is a thing merely and purely spiritual; and in so far as it is spiritual (for even that jurisdiction Ecclesiastical which is exercised in an outward court or judicatory, and which inflict•• public censures, forbidden from the use of the holy Supper, and excludeth from the society of the church) doth properly concern the inward man, or the repentance and salvation of the soul.
'Tis true, that about the same things the civill Power is occupied, as touching the outward man, or the outward disposing of divine things in this or that Dominion, as was said; not as they are Spirituall and Evangelicall Ordinances piercing into the conscience it selfe; but the object of the Power ecclesiasticall ⟨p. 24⟩is a thing meerly and purely spirituall; and in so far as it is spirituall (for even that jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall which is exercised in an outward court or judicatory, and which inflict•• publike censures, forbidden from the use of the holy Supper, and excludeth from the society of the church) doth properly concerne the inward man, or the repentance and salvation of the soul.