{"passage":["Acts 15:19"],"results":[{"document":"wcf1646","id":"31.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/31.3","segments":[{"text":"It belongeth to Synods and Councels, ministerially to determine Controversies of Faith, and cases of Conscience, to set down Rules and Directions for the better Ordering of the publique Worship of God, and Government of his Church; to receive Complaints, in cases of Male-administration, and, authoritatively to Determine the same: which Decrees, and Determinations, if consonant to the word of God, are to be received with reverence, and submission; not only, for their agreement with the Word, but also for the Power, whereby they are made, as being an Ordinance of God appointed thereunto in his Word.","proofs":["Acts 15:19"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"31.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/31.3","segments":[{"text":"It belongs to Synods and Councils, ministerially to determine Controversies of Faith, and cases of Conscience, to set down Rules and Directions for the better Ordering of the public Worship of God, and Government of his Church; to receive Complaints, in cases of Male-administration, and, authoritatively to Determine the same: which Decrees, and Determinations, if consonant to the word of God, are to be received with reverence, and submission; not only, for their agreement with the Word, but also for the Power, whereby they are made, as being an Ordinance of God appointed thereunto in his Word.","proofs":["Acts 15:19"]}]},{"document":"orthodox1679","id":"39.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/orthodox1679/paragraphs/39.1","segments":[{"text":"of the several Churches of Christ, and being legally convened, and met together out of all the Churches, and the Churches appearing there by their Representatives, make but one Church; and have lawful right and suffrage in this General Meeting, or Assembly, to act","proofs":["Acts 15:11–14, 19, 22, 25, 28"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"99","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/99","segments":[{"text":"They only made a decree,","proofs":["Acts 15:19, 28"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"And Relaxed the Penitent from this Censure. Called a Synod, and stigmatized Hereticks;","proofs":["Acts 15"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"(2) Because, all the substantials of Church Government, under the New Testament, which either concern Ministers, Ordinances, Censures, Synods, Councils, and their power, are proposed, and set down in Scripture, namely in the third Chapter of the first Epistle to Timothy;","proofs":["Acts 15"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["Acts 15:15, 19, 24, 27–31"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"(4) Because, there is a particular example of a Synod, which had the power of Jurisdiction, and which consisted, and was made up of members, out of diverse Classical Conventions: For when the Question about circumcision, and the keeping of Moses Law, which troubled the Churches of Syria, Cilicia, Antioch, and Jerusalem, could not be determined in their own particular churches, the matter was referred to a Synod of Apostles and Presbyters, who met at Jerusalem, which decided the controversy, and appointed their decrees to be obligatory, and binding to all these foresaid churches;","proofs":["Acts 15"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"The Iewish ceremonies, prescribed by God himselfe for a time vnto the Iewes, are to be obserued of vs Christians. Such were the old Heretikes, the false Apostles,","proofs":["Acts 15"]}]}]}