A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…

Now for the purpose in hand, we will first examine what the Arch-Bishop of Spalato saith, for he discourseth much of the jurisdiction Sect. 2 and Office of Princes, in things and causes Ecclesiastical. The Title of the first Chapter of his sixt Book de Rep Eccl. holdeth; That it is the duty of Princes super Ecclesiastica invigilare. But in the body of the Chapter, he laboureth to prove, that the power of governing Ecclesiastical things belongeth to Princes (which is far more then to watch carefully over them.) This the Reader will easily perceive. Nay, he himself, Num. 115. & 174. professeth he hath been proving, that Divine and Ecclesiastical things, are to be ruled and governed by the authority & Laws of Princes. The Title prefixed to the sixth Chapter of that same Book, is this: Legibus & edictis Principum Laicorum, & Ecclesiastica & Ecclesiasticos gubernari. So that in both Chapters, he treateth of one and the same office of Princes about things Ecclesiastical.

Now for the purpose in hand, we will first examine what the Arch-Bishop of Spalato saith, for he discourseth much of the jurisdiction Sect. 2 and Office of Princes, in things and causes Ecclesiasticall. The Title of the first Chapter of his sixt Booke de Rep Eccl. holdeth; That it is the duty of Princes super Ecclesiastica invigilare. But in the body of the Chapter, he laboureth to prove, that the power of governing Ecclesiasticall things belongeth to Princes (which is farre more then to watch carefully over them.) This the Reader will easily perceive. Nay, he himselfe, Num. 115. & 174. professeth he hath been proving, that Divine and Ecclesiasticall things, are to be ruled and governed by the authority & Lawes of Princes. The Title prefixed to the sixt Chapter of that same Booke, is this: Legibus & edictis Principum Laicorum, & Ecclesiastica & Ecclesiasticos gubernari. So that in both Chapters, he treateth of one and the same office of Princes about things Ecclesiasticall.

Now, if we would learn what he means by those Ecclesiastica, which he will have to be governed by Princes, ^ghe resolves us that he means not things internal, such as the deciding of controversies in matters of faith, feeding with the Word of God, binding & loosing, and ministering of the Sacraments: (for in pure spiritualibus, (as he speaketh in Summa Cap. 5.) he yieldeth them not the power of judging and defining:) but only things external, which pertain to the external worship of God, or which concern external Ecclesiastical Discipline. Such things