A86000:20
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6.
The same Lord and our Saviour Jesus Christ, the only Head of the church hath ordained in the New Testament, not only the Preaching of the Word and Administration of Baptism and the Lords Supper, but also Ecclesiastical Government, distinct and differing from the Civill Government, and it is his will that there be such a Government distinct from the Civill in all his Churches everywhere, as well those which live under Christian, as those under infidel Magistrates, even until the end of the World. Heb. 13. 7. 17. 1 Tim. 5. 17, 19. Rom. 12. 8. 1 Cor. 12. 28. 1 Thes. 5. 12, Acts 1. 20, 28. Luke 12. 42. 1 Tim. 6. 14. Apoc. 2. 25.
The same Lord and our Saviour Jesus Christ, the onely Head of the church hath ordained in the New Testament, not only the Preaching of the Word and Administration of Baptisme and the Lords Supper, but also Ecclesiasticall Government, distinct and differing from the Civill Government, and it is his will that there be such a Government distinct from the Civill in all his Churches everywhere, as well those which live under Christian, as those under indfiell Magistrates, even untill the end of the World.