Institues of Elenctic Theology by Francis Turretin
Hence if they think they observe anything in them worthy of correction [the creeds and confessions], they ought to undertake nothing rashly or disorderly and unseasonably, so as to violently rend the body of their mother (which schismatics do), but to refer the difficulties they feel to their church and either to prefer her public opinion to their own private judgement or to secede from her communion, if the conscience cannot acquiesce in her judgement. Thus they cannot bind in the inner court of conscience, except inasmuch as they are found to agree with the word of God (which alone has the power to bind the conscience).
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