A86000:9
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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AS our Lord Jesus Christ doth invisibly teach and govern his Church by the Holy Spirit: So in gathering, preserving, instructing, building and saving thereof, he useth Ministers as his instruments, and hath appointed an order of some to Teach, and others to Learn in the Church, and that some should be the Flock, and others the Pastors.
AS our Lord Jesus Christ doth invisibly teach and govern his Church by the Holy Spirit: So in gathering, preserving, instructing, building and saving thereof, he useth Ministers as his instruments, and hath appointed an order of some to Teach, and others to Learne in the Church, and that some should be the Flock, and others the Pastours.
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For, beside these first Founders of the Church of Christ extraordinarily sent, and furnished with the gift of Miracles, whereby they might confirm the Doctrine of the Gospel, he appointed also ordinary Pastors and Teachers, for the executing of the Ministry, even until his coming again nnto Judgement, Ephes. 4. 11, 12, 13. Wherefore, also as many as are of the number of God's People, or will be accounted Christians, ought to receive and obey the ordinary Ministers