A86000:84
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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And for this cause, as in Doctrinal Controversies which are handled by Theologues and Casuists, and in those which belong to the common state of the orthodox Churches, the National Synod is subordinate and subjected to the Universal lawfully constituted Synod, and from the National to the Ecumenical Synod (when there is a just and weighty cause) an appeal is open: So there is no need that the Appeals of them who complain of injury done to them through the exercise of Discipline in this or that Church, should go beyond the bounds of the National Synod: But 'tis most agreeable to reason that they should rest and acquiesce within those bounds and borders; and that the ultimate judgement of such matters be in the National Synod, unless the thing it self be so hard, and of so great moment, that the knot be justly thought worthy of a greater decider: In which case the controversy which is carried to the Universal Synod is rather of an abstract general Theological Proposition, then of the particular or individual Case.
And for this cause, as in Doctrinall Controversies which are handled by Theologues and Casuists, and in those which belong to the common state of the orthodox Churches, the Nationall Synod is subordinate and subjected to the Universall lawfully constituted Synod, and from the Nationall to the Occumenicall Synod (when there is a just and weighty cause) an appeal is open: So there is no need that the Appeals of them who complain of injury done to them through the exercise of Discipline in this or that Church, should goe beyond the bounds of the Nationall Synod: But 'tis most agreeable to reason that they should rest and acquiesce within those bounds and borders; and that the ultimate judgement of such matters be in the Nationall Synod, unlesse the thing it self be so hard, and of so great moment, that the knot be justly thought worthy of a greater decider: In which case the controversie which is carried to the Universall Synod is rather of an abstract general Theologicall Proposition, then of the particular or individuall Case.