A86000:179
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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Yet ordinarily and by common or known Law and Right in settled Churches, if any man have recourse to the Magistrate to complain, that through abuse of Ecclesiastic Discipline, injury is done to him, or if any sentence of the Pastors and Elders of the Church, whether concerning Faith or Discipline, do displease or seem unjust unto the Magistrate himself; it is not for that cause lawful to draw those Ecclesiastical ⟨p. 34⟩causes to a civil tribunal, or to bring in a kind of political or civil Popedom.
Yet ordinarily and by common or known Law and Right in settled Churches, if any man have recourse to the Magistrate to complain, that through abuse of Ecclesiastick Discipline, injury is done to him, or if any sentence of the Pastors and Elders of the Church, whether concerning Faith or Discipline, do displease or seem uniust unto the Magistrate himself; it is not for that cause lawfull to draw those Ecclesiasticall ⟨p. 34⟩causes to a civil tribunal, or to bring in a kind of political or civil Popedom.