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.
About this Item
Title
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.
Author
Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
Publication
London :: Printed for Robert Bostock, at the King's Head in Pauls Church-yard,
MDCXLVII. [1647]
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
Church of Scotland -- Government -- Early works to 1800.
Church of Scotland -- Clergy -- Early works to 1800.
Ordination -- Church of Scotland -- Early works to 1800.
Liberty of conscience -- Early works to 1800.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86000.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86000.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2025.
Pages
53. (Book 53)
The object of Ecclesiasticall Power is not the same
with the object of the civill Power, but much differing from
it; for the ecclesiasticall Power doth determine and appoinr
nothing concerning mens bodies, goods, dignities, civill rights,
but is imployed onely about the inward man, or the soul; not
that it can search the hearts, or judge of the secrets of the
conscience, which is in the power of God alone: Yet not∣withstanding
it hath for its proper object those externalls
which are purely spirituall, and doe belong properly and
most neerly to the spirituall good of the soul; Which also
are termed 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the inward things of the
Church.
email
Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem?
Please contact us.