A86000:149
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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But the end of Ecclesiastical power, yea the end as well of the Ministry it self, as of the godly Minister, is, that the Kingdom of Christ may be set forward, that the paths of the Lord be made straight, that his holy mysteries may be kept pure, that stumbling-blocks may be removed out of the Church, least a little leaven leaven the whole lump; or least one sick or scabbed sheep infect the whole flock; that the faithful may so walk as it becometh the Gospel of Christ, ⟨p. 29⟩and that the wandering sheep of Christ may be converted and brought back to the sheep-Fold:
But the end of Ecclesiastical power, yea the end as well of the Ministry it self, as of the godly Minister, is, that the Kingdom of Christ may be set forward, that the pathes of the Lord be made straight, that his holy mysteries may be kept pure, that stumbling-blocks may be removed out of the Church, least a little leaven leaven the whole lump; or least one sick or scabbed sheep infect the whole flock; that the faithfull may so walk as it becometh the Gospell of Christ, ⟨p. 29⟩and that the wandring sheep of Christ may be converted and brought back to the sheep-Fold: