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.
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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"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 22, 2025.
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88. (Book 88)
If any man shall prosecute the argument, and say, that yet
no remedy is here shewed, which may be applyed to the
injustice or error of a National Synod: surely he stumbleth
against the same stone, seeing he weigheth not the matter with
an equal ballance; for the same may in like sort fall back
and be cast upon Parliaments, or any supream Senate of a
Common-wealth: for who seeth not the judgment of the
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supream civill Senate to be nothing more infallible, yea also in
matters of Faith and Ecclesiasticall Discipline, more apt and
prone to Error (as being less accustomed to sacred Studies)
then the judgment of the Nationall Synod? what medicines
then, or what soveraign plaisters shal be had, which may be
fit for the curing and healing of the Errors and miscariages of
the supream Magistrate and Senate? The very like, and be∣side
all this, other and more effectuall medicines, by which
the Errors of Nationall Synods may be healed, are possible
to be had.
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