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A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.
printed by John Stroud?, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7. That the ministers of the word / ought not to exercise any civill offices and jurisdiction.
7. That the mynisters of the worde / ought not to exercise any ciuill offices and iurisdiction.
M. Calvin in his Institutions. 4. book. 11. chap. 9. sect. bringeth divers reasons to prove that bishops may neither usurp / nor take being given them / either the right of the sword / or the knowledge of civill causes.
M. Caluin in hys Institutions. 4. boke. 11. chap. 9. sect. bringeth dyuers reasons to proue that byshops may neyther vsurpe / nor take being geuen them / eyther the right of the sword / or the knowledge of ciuill causes.
M. Beza in his Confessions. chap. 5. sect. 32. saith that the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the civill / and that although the bishops in the times of Christian Emperors were troubled with the hearing of civil causes yet they did not that by any judicial power / which they exercised / but by a friendly entreaty of the parties / which were at discord: and sayeth notwithstanding / that herein the Emperors did give too much to the ambition of certain bishops / whereupon by little / and by little / afterward all things were confounded. And in the. 42. section / sayeth that those corporal punishments which the Apostles exercised / were peculiar / and extraordinary.
M. Beza in hys Confessions. chap. 5. sect. 32. sayth that the Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction is to be distinguished from the ciuill / and that although the byshops in the times of Christian Emperoures were troubled with the hearing of cyuill causes yet they dyd not that by any iudiciall power / which they exercised / but by a frendly entreaty of the parties / which were at discorde: and sayeth notwithstanding / that herein the Emperors dyd geue too much to the ambytion of certayne byshoppes / whereupon by little / and by litle / afterwarde all thinges were confounded. And in the. 42. section / sayeth that those corporall punyshmentes which the Apostles exercised / were peculier / and extraordinary.