A86000:159
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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Sixthly, they are also differenced in respect of the Subject: The politic power is committed sometimes to one, sometimes to more, sometime by right of election, sometime by right of succession: But the Ecclesiastical power is competent to none under the New Testament by the right of succession, but he who hath it, must be called, by God and the Church, to it; neither was it given by Christ to one, either Pastor or Elder, much less to a Prelate, but to the Church, that is, to the consistory of Presbyters. 'Tis confessed indeed, and who can be ignorant of it, that the power (as they call it) of order, doth belong to particular Ministers, and is by each of them apart lawfully exercised? but that power which is commonly called of jurisdiction, is committed not to one, but to the unity, that is, to a consistory; therefore Ecclesiastical censure ought not to be inflicted, but by many. 2 Cor. 2. 6.
Sixthly, they are also differenced in respect of the Subject: The politick power is committed sometimes to one, sometimes to more, sometime by right of election, sometime by right of succession: But the Ecclesiasticall power is competent to none under the New Testament by the right of succession, but he who hath it, must be called, by God and the Church, to it; neither was it given by Christ to one, either Pastor or Elder, much less to a Prelate, but to the Church, that is, to the consistory of Presbyters. 'Tis confessed indeed, and who can be ignorant of it, that the power (as they call it) of order, doth belong to particular Ministers, and is by each of them apart lawfully exercised? but that power which is commonly called of jurisdiction, is committed not to one, but to the unity, that is, to a consistory; therefore Ecclesiasticall censure ought not to be inflicted, but by many.