93. (Book 93)
Next it may be granted that the matter may be put under a further examination, yet upon condition, that when it is come to the revision of the former sentence, regard may be had of the weaker which are found willing to bee taught,
CXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church
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- Title
- CXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church
- Author
- Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
- Publication
- Edinburgh :: Printed by Evan Tyler ...,
- 1647.
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- Church of England -- Government.
- Church polity.
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"CXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42763.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025.
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though they doubt, but that unto the wicked and contentious tempters, which do mainly strive to oppresse our liberty which we have in Christ, and to bring us into bondage, we do not for a moment give place by subjecting our selves; for what else seek they or wait for, then that under the pretence of a revising and of new debate, they cast in lets and impediments ever and anone, and that by cunning lyings in wait they may betray the liberty of the Church, and in processe of time may by open violence more forceably breake in upon it, or at least constrain the Ministers of the Church to weave Penelope's web, which they can never bring to an end.