A86000:57
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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That which is now driven at, is not that all wicked and unclean persons should be utterly excluded from our Ecclesiastical Societies, and so from all hearing of Gods Word; Yea there is nothing less intended: for the Word of God is the instrument as well of conversion as of confirmation, and therefore is to be Preached as well to the not converted as to the ⟨p. 11⟩converted, as well to the repenting, as the unrepenting: The Temple indeed of Jerusalem had special promises, as it were pointing out with the finger a Communion with God through Christ, 1 King. 8. 30, 48. Dan. 6. 10. 2 Chron. 6. 16. and 7. 15, 16. But 'tis far otherwise with our Temples, or places of Church Assemblies, because our Temples contain nothing Sacramental in them, such as the Tabernacle and Temple contained; as the most learned Professors of Leiden said rightly in Synops. Purr. Theologiae Disput. 48. Thes. 47.
That which is now driven at, is not that all wicked and unclean persons should be utterly excluded from our Ecclesiasticall Societies, and so from all hearing of Gods Word; Yea there is nothing lesse intended: for the Word of God is the instrument as well of conversion as of confirmation, and therefore is to be Preached as well to the not converted as to the