The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…

87. If faithful Ministers break good Laws, they must be punished as other Subjects, in Purse, or Body, or Name, so as may least hinder them in the work of Christ.

88. They that silence faithful able Pastors, for such faults as may be otherwise punished, do grievously punish the faultless people (even in their souls) for the fault of another. ⟨p. 46⟩As if a man that hath a family of an hundred persons, were forbidden to give them bread to save their lives, because he was drunk, or swore an Oath, which might be punished on himself alone.

89. The Magistrate may excommunicate in his way, as well as the Pastors do in theirs. That is, the Magistrate may as a penalty for a crime, lay Subjects under a note of infamy, and Outlaw them, and command all men to avoid familiarity with them; (And this as bad Subjects, whether they be Church-members or not.) And he may as a Keeper of the Churches Privileges and Peace (till forfeited) restrain all excommunicate persons from forcing themselves into the Communion of the Church which did excommunicate them.

89. The Magistrate may excommunicate in his way, as well as the Pastors do in theirs. That is, the Magistrate may as a penalty for a crime, lay Subjects under a note of infamy, and Outlaw them, and command all men to avoid familiarity with them; (And this as bad Subjects, whether they be Church-members or not.) And he may as a Keeper of the Churches Priviledges and Peace (till forfeited) restrain all excommunicate persons from forcing themselves into the Communion of the Church which did excommunicate them.