A07402:72
A civil nosegayA ciuile nosgay
A civil nosegay wherein is contained not only the office and duty of all magistrates and judges but also of of [sic] all subjects with a preface concerning the liberty of justice in this our time newly collected and gathered out of latin and so translated in to the English tongue by I.G.A ciuile nosgay wherin is contayned not onelye the offyce and dewty of all magestrates and iudges but also of of [sic] all subiectes with a preface concernynge the lyberty of iustice in this our tyme newly collected and gethered out of latyn and so translated in to the Inglyshe tonge by I.G.
printed for John goodale, 1550printed for Ihon goodale, 1550
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¶ And for this cause they be called 1of Isaiah? Nurses of the church because they ought to nourish and to defend Godly teachers.
¶ And for this cause they be called 1of Esaias? Nurses of the churche because they ought to noryshe and to defende Godly teachers.
- 1Magistrate be Nurses to the church•.Magestrat be Nurses to the church•.
¶ And they ought not to exercise cruelness on Christian men nor laws contrary to divine or natural ought not to be observed.
¶ And they ought not to exercyse cruelnes on Christan men nor lawes contrary to deuine or natural ought not to be obserued.
¶ The Ecclesiastical power / is 1the divine commandment? in teaching the Gospel administra the Sacraments / ordaining the ministers of the Gospel annunciating remission of Since to Every body / or to many Constituting Judgements of ⟨image 33⟩doctrines. And those that be conversant in manifest delicts: to excommunicate by the word with out corporal strength, here therefore briefly I do answer of Boniface's constitution that be the divine