A86000:130
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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Next, the civill power is endued with authority of compelling; But it belongs not to the Ministry to compel the disobedient; if any compulsion be in or about Ecclesiastical matters, tis adventitious from without, to wit, from the help and assistance of the Magistrate, not from the nature of Ecclesiastical power, from which it is very heterogenous; and therefore if any Suspended or Excommunicate persons should be found, who shall be so stiff-necked, and so impudent ⟨p. 26⟩that at once he cast off all shame, and make no account at all of those censures, but scorn or contemn the same, or peradventure shall insolently or proudly engyre and obtrude himself upon the Sacrament, or being also filled with devilish malice, do more and more contradict and blaspheme; the ecclesiastical Ministry in such cases hath nothing more to do by way of jurisdiction: But the Magistrate hath in readiness a compelling jurisdiction and external force, whereby such stubborn, rebellious and undaunted pride may be externally repressed.
Next, the civill power is indued with authority of compelling; But it belongs not to the Ministery to compell the disobedient; if any compulsion be in or about Eclesissticall matters, tis adventitious from without, to wit, from the help and assistance of the Magistrate, not from the nature of Ecclesiasticall power, from which it is very heterogenous; and therefore if any Suspended or Excommunicate persons should be found, who shall be so stiffe-necked, and so impudent ⟨p. 26⟩that at once he cast off all shame, and make no account at all of those censures, but scorn or contemn the same, or peradventure shall insolently or proudly engyre and obtrude himself upon the Sacrament, or being also filled with divelish malice, do more and more contradict and blaspheme; the ecclesiasticall Ministry in such cases hath nothing more to do by way of jurisdiction: But the Magistrate hath in readinesse a compelling jurisdiction and externall force, whereby such stubborn, rebellious and undaunted pride may be externally repressed.