A86000:191
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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For the National Synod ought to declare, and that with greatest reverence, to the Magistrate, the grounds of their sentence, and the reasons of their proceedings, when he demandeth or enquireth into the same, and desireth to be satisfied: but if the Magistrate nevertheless do dissent, or cannot by contrary reasons (which may be brought, if he please) move the Synod to alter their judgment, yet may he require, and procure, that the matter be again debated and canvassed in another National Synod; and so the reasons on both sides being throughly weighed, may be lawfully determined in an Ecclesiastical way.
For the Nationall Synod ought to declare, and that with greatest reverence, to the Magistrate, the grounds of their sentence, and the reasons of their proceedings, when he demandeth or enquireth into the same, and desireth to be satisfied: but if the Magistrate nevertheless do dissent, or cannot by contrary reasons (which may be brought, if he please) move the Synod to alter their judgment, yet may he require, and procure, that the matter be again debated and canvassed in another National Synod; and so the reasons on both sides being throughly weighed, may be lawfully determined in an Ecclesiastical way.