83. (Book 83)
Surely the Christian Magistrate (if any time he give
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.
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- Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
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- Liberty of conscience -- Early works to 1800.
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any grievous scandall to the Church,) seeing he also is a mem∣ber of the Church, ought no ways disdain to submit himself to the power of the keys; Neither is this to be marvelled at: for even as the office of the Minister of the Church is no ways sub∣ordinate and subjected to the civil power, but the person of the Minister, as he is a member of the Common-wealth, is subject thereto: So the civil power it self, or the Magistrate, as a Ma∣gistrate, is not subjected to Ecclesiastick power; yet that man who is a Magistrate ought (as he is a member of the Church) to be under the Churches censure of his manners, after the ex∣ample of the Emperour Theodosius, unless he wil despise and set at nought Ecclesiastick Discipline, and indulge the swelling pride of the flesh.