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And therefore their meaning is ▪ that as the civill governor doth use such kind of punishment as may bridle the outward man / & hold him / that he dare not offend in the open breach of that godliness / honesty and quietness which Saint Paul commendeth unto us: so the Ecclesiastical regiment ¹doth use that kind of discipline / whereby the conscience and inward man may be kept in that willing obedience unto Gods commandment touching a godly honest and quiet life. And to note the distinction of these regiments civil and spiritual / the place unto the Thessalonians is well alleged: ²for by the words (such as rule over you in the Lord) the Apostle doth put a difference between the civil and ecclesiastical regiment. For albeit that godly civil magistrates do rule over us in the Lord / yet Saint Paul catexochen that is / by excellency / ascribeth that unto the Ecclesiastical governors / because that whereas the civil magistrate beside his care for the salvation of the souls of his people / is occupied in procuring also the wealth and quietness of this life: the Ecclesiastical governors have all their whole care set upon that only ▪ which pertaineth to the life to come. And to this end also is alleged by the admonition / the place of Tim. wherein the apostle teacheth part of the ecclesiastical discipline which the minister may use / to consist in reprehensions and rebukes / which must be tempered according as the estate and age of every one doth require. Their meaning is not (as M. Doctor untruly surmiseth) to shut out the civil magistrate / or to debar him of punishing the wicked / but that it appertaineth not unto the ministers to deal that ways / whose correction of faults lieth partly in reprehensions and admonitions / which he speaketh ⟨p. 208⟩of there / partly in excommunication / whereof is spoken before. Further touching the place of the Ephesians / for so much as our saviour Christ as he is head of his church / is the spiritual governor thereof / it is meet that their government which are appointed underneath him / as he is head / should be likewise spiritual / as his is.

And therefore their meaning is ▪ that as the ciuill gouernor doth vse such kinde of punishment as may bridle the outward man / & hold hym / that he dare not offende in the open breache of that godlynes / honesty and quietnes which Saynt Paule commendeth vnto vs: so the Ecclesiasticall regyment