A86000:126
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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Emperors, Kings and other Magistrates are indeed appointed fathers of they country, but the are withal Lords of their People and Subjects; Not as if it were permitted to them to bear rule and command at their own will and as they list (for they are the Ministers of God for the good and profit of the Subjects) yet it belongs to their power truly and properly to exercise dominion, to hold principality, to proceed imperiously. It is indeed the duty of Ministers and Rulers of the Church to oversee, to feed as shepherds, to correct and rectify, to bear the keys, to be Stewards in the house of Christ, but in no wise to be Lords over the house, or to govern as Lords, or Lordlike to rule; yea in brief, this is the difference between the civill Magistrate and the Ecclesiastical Ministry, in respect of those that are committed to their trust, that the lot of the former is to be served or ministered unto, the lot of the latter to minister or serve.
Emperors, Kings and other Magistrats are indeed appointed fathers of they countrey, but the are withall Lords of their People and Subjects; Not as if it were permitted to them to bear rule and command at their owne will and as they list (for they are the Ministers of God for the good and profit of the Subjects) yet it belongs to their power truely and properly to exercise dominion, to hold principality, to proceed imperiously. It is indeed the duety of Ministers and Rulers of the Church to oversee, to feed as shepherds, to correct and rectifie, to bear the keyes, to be Stewards in the house of Christ, but in no wise to be Lords over the house, or to governe as Lords, or Lordlike to rule; yea in brief, this is the difference between the civill Magistrate and the Ecclesiasticall Ministery, in respect of those that are committed to their trust, that the lot of the former is to be served or ministred unto, the lot of the latter to minister or serve.