A86000:90
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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The Orthodox Churches believe also, and do willingly acknowledge, that every lawful Magistrate, being by God himself constituted the keeper and defender of both Tables of the Law, may and ought first and chiefly to take care of Gods glory, and (according to his place, or in his manner and way) to preserve Religion when pure, and to restore it when cecayed and corrupted: And also to provide a learned and Godly Ministry, Schools also and Synods, as likewise to restrain and punish as well Atheists, Blasphemers, Heretics and Schismatics, as the violators of Justice and Civill Peace.
The Orthodox Churches believe also, and do willingly acknowledge, that every lawfull Magistrate, being by God himself constituted the keeper and defender of both Tables of the Law, may and ought first and chiefly to take care of Gods glory, and (according to his place, or in his manner and way) to preserve Religion when pure, and to restore it when cecayed and corrupted: And also to provide a learned and Godly Ministry, Schools also and Synods, as likewise to restrain and punish as well Atheists, Blasphemers, Hereticks and Schismaticks, as the violaters of Justice and Civill Peace.
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Wherefore the opinion of those Sectaries of this Age is altogether to be disallowed, who though otherwise insinuating themselves craftily into the Magistrates favour, do deny unto him the authority and right of restraining Heretics and Schismatics, and do hold and maintain that such persons, how much soever hurtful and pernicious enemies to true Religion and to the Church, yet are to be tolerated by the Magistrate, if so be he conceive them to be such as no way violate the Laws of the Commonwealth, and in no wise disturb the civill Peace.