A86000:185
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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If any man shall prosecute the argument, and say, that yet no remedy is here showed, which may be applied to the injustice or error of a National Synod: surely he stumbleth against the same stone, seeing he weigheth not the matter with an equal balance; for the same may in like sort fall back and be cast upon Parliaments, or any supreme Senate of a Common-wealth: for who seeth not the judgment of the ⟨p. 35⟩supreme civill Senate to be nothing more infallible, yea also in matters of Faith and Ecclesiastical Discipline, more apt and prone to Error (as being less accustomed to sacred Studies) then the judgment of the National Synod? what medicines then, or what sovereign plasters shall be had, which may be fit for the curing and healing of the Errors and miscarriages of the supreme Magistrate and Senate? The very like, and beside all this, other and more effectual medicines, by which the Errors of National Synods may be healed, are possible to be had.
If any man shall prosecute the argument, and say, that yet no remedy is here shewed, which may be applyed to the injustice or error of a National Synod: surely he stumbleth against the same stone, seeing he weigheth not the matter with an equal ballance; for the same may in like sort fall back and be cast upon Parliaments, or any supream Senate of a Common-wealth: for who seeth not the judgment of the ⟨p. 35⟩supream civill Senate to be nothing more infallible, yea also in matters of Faith and Ecclesiasticall Discipline, more apt and prone to Error (as being less accustomed to sacred Studies) then the judgment of the Nationall Synod? what medicines then, or what soveraign plaisters shal be had, which may be fit for the curing and healing of the Errors and miscariages of the supream Magistrate and Senate? The very like, and beside all this, other and more effectuall medicines, by which the Errors of Nationall Synods may be healed, are possible to be had.