A86000:203
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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Therefore, as to each Member of the Church respectively, so unto the Magistrate belongeth the judgment of such things, both to apprehend and to judg of them; for although the Magistrate is not ordained and preferred of God, that he should be a judg of matters and causes spiritual, of which there is controversy in the Church: Yet is he questionless judg of his own civill act, about spiritual things; namely, of defending them in his own Dominions, and of approving or tolerating the same; and if in this business he judg and determine according to the wisdom of the flesh, and not according to the wisdom which is from above, he is to render an account thereof before the supreme Tribunal.
Therefore, as to each Member of the Church respectively, so unto the Magistrate belongeth the judgment of such things, both to apprehend and to judg of them; for although the Magistrate is not ordained and preferred of God, that he should be a judg of matters and causes spirituall, of which there is controversie in the Church: Yet is he questionless judg of his own civill act, about spirituall things; namely, of defending them in his own Dominions, and of approving or tolerating the same; and if in this business he judg and determine according to the wisdom of the flesh, and not according to the wisdom which is from above, he is to render an account thereof before the supream Tribunall.