A86000:194
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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Next it may be granted, that the matter may be put under a further examination, yet upon condition, that when it is come to the revision of the former sentence, regard may be had of the weaker which are found willing to be taught, ⟨p. 37⟩though they doubt, but that unto the wicked and contentious tempters, which do mainly strive to oppress our liberty which we have in Christ, and to bring us into bondage, we do not for a moment give place by subjecting our selves: For what else seek they or wait for, then that under the pretence of a revising and of new debate, they cast in lets and impediments ever and anon, and that by cunning lyings in wait, they may betray the liberty of the Church, and in process of time may by open violence, more forcibly break in upon it, or at least, constrain the Ministers of the Church to weave Penelope's web, which they can never bring to an end.
Next it may be granted, that the matter may be put under a further examination, yet upon condition, that when it is come to the revision of the former sentence, regard may be had of the weaker which are found willing to be taught, ⟨p. 37⟩though they doubt, but that unto the wicked and contentious tempters, which do mainly strive to oppress our liberty which we have in Christ, and to bring us into bondage, we do not for a moment give place by subjecting our selves: For what else seek they or wait for, then that under the pretence of a revising and of new debate, they cast in lets and impediments ever and anon, and that by cunning lyings in wait, they may betray the liberty of the Church, and in process of time may by open violence, more forceably break in upon it, or at least, constrain the Ministers of the Church to weave Penelop's web, which they can never bring to an end.