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The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…
The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom & magistracy under the name of a church & church-government usurped by the Pope, or liberally given him by popish princes opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
Do you think this is not plain dealing enough, if men are willing to understand?
I know that there were Emperors and Princes that struggled hard, before they suffered themselves to be thus subjected; And these Emperors had Lawyers, Statesmen and Divines that took their parts; as all the Treatises in Goldastus his three Volumes de Monarch. and his Imp. Constit. 1show. But still those that sided with the Pope spake contrary, as the argumentations of those Books besides the Authors whom they oppose, do show. And, alas, Occham, and Marsilius Patavinus, and Widdrington and Barclay came all too late. For all that Secular Power which was cloaked with the name of Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, was before so deeply rooted in the Papacy, that they durst plead for no more, than that Princes are not subject to the Pope in Temporals: But as you truly note, abundance of Temporals, and of the Magistrates proper work about things Ecclesiastical, was still veiled under the name of Spiritual: And at last, even the Temporal Power again claimed more subtly, and indirectly, as in ordine ad spiritualia.
I know that there were Emperours and Princes that strugled hard, before they suffered themselves to be thus subjected; And these Emperours had Lawyers, Statesmen and Divines that took their parts; as all the Treatises in Goldastus his three Volumes de Monarch. and his Imp. Constit. 1shew. But still those that sided with the Pope spake contrary, as the argumentations of those Books besides the Authors whom they oppose, do shew. And, alas, Occham, and Marsilius Patavinus, and Widdrington and Barclay came all too late. For all that Secular Power which was cloaked with the name of Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, was before so deeply rooted in the Papacy, that they durst plead for no more, than that Princes are not subject to the Pope in Temporals: But as you truly note, abundance of Temporals, and of the Magistrates proper work about things Ecclesiastical, was still vailed under the name of Spiritual: And at last, even the Temporal Power again claimed more subtilly, and indirectly, as in ordine ad spiritualia.