Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§. 55. Much more doth this become unlawful, 1. when deposing all the Presbyters from Government by the Keys of Discipline, they put the same Keys, even the Power of dec•etive Excommunication and Absolution into the hands of Laymen, called Chancellors, and set up Courts liker to the Civil than Ecclesiastical. 2. And when they oblige the Magistrate to execute their Decrees by the Sword, be they just or unjust, and to lay Men in Goals and ruin them, merely because they are Excommunicated by Bishops, or Chancellors, or Officials, or such others, and are not reconciled: ⟨p. 23⟩And when they threaten Princes and Magistrates with Excommunication (if not Deposition) if they do but Communicate with those that the Bishop hath Excommunicated. 3. Or when they arrogate the power of the Sword themselves, as Socrates saith Cyril did: Or without necessity join in one person the Office of Priesthood and Magistracy, when one is more than they can perform aright.

§. 55. Much more doth this become unlawful, 1. when deposing all the Presbyters from Government by the Keyes of Discipline, they put the same Keyes, even the Power of dec•etive Excommunication and Absolution into the hands of Laymen, called Chancellours, and set up Courts liker to the Civil than Ecclesiastical. 2. And when they oblige the Magistrate to execute their Decrees by the Sword, be they just or unjust, and to lay Men in Goals and ruine them, meerly because they are Excommunicated by Bishops, or Chancellours, or Officials, or such others, and are not reconciled: ⟨p. 23⟩And when they threaten Princes and Magistrates with Excommunication (if not Deposition) if they do but Communicate with those that the Bishop hath Excommunicated. 3. Or when they arrogate the power of the Sword themselves, as Socrates saith Cyril did: Or without necessity joyn in one person the Office of Priesthood and Magistracy, when one is more than they can perform aright.