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Caput XI.

AS the scripture teacheth Christ to be the very true priest and bishop the church, prayeth for the church, satisfieth the Ire of god for the sin of the church and only sanctifieth the church. So doth it prove Christ to be the King Emperor and protector of the church. And that by the office and property of à king that defendeth his subjects, not only by his godly laws, but also by force and civil resistance. As the Enemies of his commune wealth shall minister ⟨image 75⟩occasion. By those too means every commune wealth is preserved as the scripture teacheth, princes Christened and Ethnics. Aristotle in his politics. Justinian in the proem of his institutions. The scripture every where. Pharaoh that would this church of god and commune wealth of the Israelites to be destroyed, was lost and all his Army in the see. the idolaters that would make the commune wealth of Christs church one with the commune wealth of Egypt were destroyed, such as Rebelled: Koreh and Rubinites against the governors of God's church Moses and Aron: were destroyed with the artillery of God's ire, all the princes and nations that possessed the land of Canaan, god destroyed to set his commune wealth in an order. In the later days when the king of this commune wealth should be born the Angel declared unto the blessed virgin of ⟨image 76⟩what puissance and pour this Kingdom of Christ should be. Regnabit inquit, in domo Jacob in aeternū, & regni eius nō erit finis, Lu. 1. although now the commune wealth of the church hath no certain place appointed where it shall remain. as it was appointed in the old law: yet certain we be that this kingdom of Christ remaineth upon the earth and shall do till the earth be burned, Matth. 16. 28. 1 Corint. 15. How be it as Christ wan and obtained this kingdom in the later days with out shield or spear so doth he preserve it with his holy spirit and not will carnal weapons as Christ said unto Pilate Joan. 18. Regnum meum, non est de hoc mundo, Menyng that he would not reign in this world as a prince of this world with pomp and pride: but defend his people with his holy spirit, that the devil nether the world should not break there patience