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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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]
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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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84. (Book 84)

If any man should again object that the Magistrate is not indeed to resist Ecclesiasticall Government, yet that the abuses thereof are to be corrected and taken away by him: The an∣swer is ready, in the worst and troublesome times, or in the decayed and troubled estate of things, when the ordinance of God in the Church, is violently turned into tyranny, to the treading down of true Religion, and to the oppressing of the Professors thereof, and when nothing almost is sound or whole, divers things are yielded to be lawfull to godly Magi∣strates, which are not ordinarily lawfull for them, that so to ex∣traordinary diseases, extraordinary remedies may be applyed. So also the Magistrate abusing his power unto tyranny, and ma∣king havock of all, tis lawfull to resist him by some extraordi∣nary ways and means, which are not ordinarily to be al∣lowed.