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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 9
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2. Did not many, if not most of the Emperors, Heathen and Christian, come in by Murder, or Invasion, and Usurpation? And were Men therefore disobliged from obeying them, when they were settled, by submissive implicit consent?
2. Did not many, if not most of the Emperors, Heathen and Christian, come in by Murder, or Invasion, and Usurpation? And were Men therefore disobliged from obeying them, when they were setled, by submissive implicite consent?
3. But the venom of the Cardinal Jesuit's answer is, that he taketh it to be base Flattery,1 to say that Princes are by God's dispose the Governors of the Church: For then what are the Bishops for? And must the world be ridden and abused by such Men, that would turn Princes out of all Government of the Church, and understand not that the Government of the same Church, may belong to the Magistrate and the Pastors respectively, (as the Government of an Hospital to the King, and to the Physician?) May not one rule and punish by the Sword, and another by the Word, by Teaching, and the Church Keys? Is it not one thing to Fine, and Beat, and Banish, and Kill a Man, and another to sentence him unmeet for Church-Communion? Marvellous, that God permitteth the world to be deluded by such a blinded or blinding Clergy, though as learned as Bellarmine, that would make these things seem inconsistent, and separate what God hath conjoined!
3. But the venom of the Cardinal Jesuite's answer is, that he taketh it to be base Flattery,1 to say that Princes are by God's dispose the Governors of the Church: For then what are the Bishops for? And must the world be ridden and abused by such Men, that would turn Princes out of all Government of the Church, and understand not that the Government of the same Church, may belong to the Magistrate and the Pastors respectively, (as the Government of an Hospital to the King, and to the Physician?) May not one rule and punish by the Sword, and another by the Word, by Teaching, and the Church Keys? Is it not one thing to Fine, and Beat, and Banish, and Kill a Man, and another to sentence him unmeet for Church-Communion? Marvellous, that God permitteth the world to be deluded by such a blinded or blinding Clergy, though as learned as Bellarmine, that would make these things seem inconsistent, and separate what God hath conjoined!