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 15, 2025.
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descriptionPage 38
96. (Book 96)
Wherefore seeing these nursing fathers, favourers and de∣fenders,
can do nothing against the Truth, but for the Truth,
nor have any right against the Gospel, but for the Gospel; and
their power in respect of the Church, whereof they bear the
care, being not privative or destructive, but cumulative
and auxiliary, thereby it is sufficiently clear, that they ought
to cherish, and by their authority, ought to establish the
Ecclesiasticall Discipline; but yet not with implicite Faith,
or blind obedience: For the Reformed Churches do not
deny to any of the faithfull, much less to the Magistrate,
the judgment of Christian prudence and discretion, concer∣ning
those things which are decreed or determined by the
Church.
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