A86000:201
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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Wherefore seeing these nursing fathers, favourers and defenders, can do nothing against the Truth, but for the Truth, nor have any right against the Gospel, but for the Gospel; and their power in respect of the Church, whereof they bear the care, being not privative or destructive, but cumulative and auxiliary, thereby it is sufficiently clear, that they ought to cherish, and by their authority, ought to establish the Ecclesiastical Discipline; but yet not with implicit Faith, or blind obedience: For the Reformed Churches do not deny to any of the faithful, much less to the Magistrate, the judgment of Christian prudence and discretion, concerning those things which are decreed or determined by the Church.
Wherefore seeing these nursing fathers, favourers and defenders, can do nothing against the Truth, but for the Truth, nor have any right against the Gospel, but for the Gospel; and their power in respect of the Church, whereof they bear the care, being not privative or destructive, but cumulative and auxiliary, thereby it is sufficiently clear, that they ought to cherish, and by their authority, ought to establish the Ecclesiasticall Discipline; but yet not with implicite Faith, or blind obedience: For the Reformed Churches do not deny to any of the faithfull, much less to the Magistrate, the judgment of Christian prudence and discretion, concerning those things which are decreed or determined by the Church.