A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded…

This Ecclesiastical Government distinct from the Civill, is from God committed, not to the whole body of the Church or Congregation of the faithful, or to be Exercised both by Officers and People, but to the Ministers of Gods Word, together with the Elders which are joined with them for the care and Government of the Church, 1 Tim. 5. 17. To these therefore who are over the Church in the Lord, belongeth the Authority and Power, and it lieth upon them by their office, according to the rule of Gods Word to discern and judge betwixt the Holy and Profane, to give diligence for amendment of delinquents, and to purge the Church (as much as is in them) from scandals, and that not only by enquiring, inspection, warning, reproving, and more sharply expostulating, but also by acting in the further and more severe parts of Ecclesiastical Discipline, or exercising ⟨p. 4⟩Ecclesiastic jurisdiction, even unto the greatest and weightiest censures, where need is.

This Ecclesiasticall Government distinct from the Civill, is from God committed, not to the whole body of the Church or Congregation of the faithfull, or to be Exercised both by Officers and People, but to the Ministers of Gods Word, together with the Elders which are joyned with them for the care and Government of the Church, 1 Tim. 5. 17. To these therefore who are over the Church in the Lord, belongeth the Authority and Power, and it lyeth upon them by their office, according to the rule of Gods Word to discerne and judge betwixt the Holy and Prophane, to give diligence for amendment of delinquents, and to purge the Church (as much as is in them) from scandalls, and that not onely by enquiring, inspection, warning, reproving, and more sharply expostulating, but also by acting in the further and more severe parts of Ecclesiasticall Discipline, or exercising