A86000:186
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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There wanteth not a Divine Medicine, and Sovereign Balm in Gilead; for although the Popish opinion of the infallibility of Counsels, be worthily rejected and exploded; yet tis not in vain that Christ hath promised, he shall be present with an Assembly, which in deed and in truth, meeteth together in his Name; with such an Assembly, verily he useth to be present by a spiritual aide and assistance of his own Spirit, to uphold the falling, or to raise up the fallen. Whence it is, that divers times the Errors of former Synods are discovered and amended by the latter: sometimes also the second, or after thoughts of one and the same Synod are the wiser and the better.
There wanteth not a Divine Medicine, and Soveraign Balm in Gilead; for although the Popish opinion of the infallibility of Counsels, be worthily rejected and exploded; yet tis not in vain that Christ hath promised, he shal be present with an Assembly, which in deed and in truth, meeteth together in his Name; with such an Assembly, verily he useth to be present by a spirituall aide and assistance of his own Spirit, to uphold the falling, or to raise up the fallen. Whence it is, that divers times the Errors of former Synods are discovered and amended by the latter: sometimes also the second, or after thoughts of one and the same Synod are the wiser and the better.