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.

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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.
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London :: Printed for Robert Bostock, at the King's Head in Pauls Church-yard,
MDCXLVII. [1647]
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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.
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"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 8, 2025.

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55. (Book 55)

'Tis true, that about the same things the civill Power is occupied, as touching the outward man, or the outward dis∣posing of divine things in this or that Dominion, as was said; not as they are Spirituall and Evangelicall Ordinances piercing into the conscience it selfe; but the object of the Power ec∣clesiasticall

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is a thing meerly and purely spirituall; and in so far as it is spirituall (for even that jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall which is exercised in an outward court or judicatory, and which inflict•••• publike censures, forbidden from the use of the holy Supper, and excludeth from the society of the church) doth properly concerne the inward man, or the repentance and sal∣vation of the soul.

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