Irenicum, a weapon-salve for the churches wounds; or, The divine right of particular forms of church-government ... with an appendix concerning the power of excommunication in a Christian church (1662)
we fiad out a Divine pod-tive Law determining an unalterable obligation: which muftbe either by exprefs words of Scripture, or by fome othercertain way,whereby to gather from thence,that it was Godsintention to bind mem For the main thing requifite to makea Handing tiniverfal pofitive Law* is Gods… … Cliap.i. Forms of Church Government, examined. thing elfe: But it muft be fnch a manifeftation as gives amans mind liifficient evidence and teftimony whereon tobuild a true, certain, and divine aflent to the thing, asrevealed: So that whatfoever binds the Confcience as a Law,nwftfirft be…
Ecclesiastical polity
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