A86000:138
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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He taketh care also for maintaining the Ministers and Schools, and supplieth the temporal necessities of Gods Servants, by his command assembleth Synods, when there is need of them: and summoneth, calleth out, and draws to trial the unwilling, which without the Magistrates strength and authority cannot be done, as hath bin already said: he maketh Synods also safe and secure, and in a civil way presideth or moderateth in them (if it so seem good to him) either by himself, or by a substitute Commissioner. In all which the power of the Magistrate, though occupied about spiritual things, is not, for all that, spiritual but civill.
He taketh care also for maintaining the Ministers and Schools, and supplyeth the temporall necessities of Gods Servants, by his command assembleth Synods, when there is need of them: and summoneth, calleth out, and draws to tryall the unwilling, which without the Magistrates strength and authority cannot be done, as hath bin already said: he maketh Synods also safe and secure, and in a civil way presideth or moderateth in them (if it so seem good to him) either by himself, or by a substitute Commissioner. In all which the power of the Magistrate, though occupied about spirituall things, is not, for all that, spiritual but civill.