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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.
So far Bilson.
All this we allow: And if all this be the concurrent judgement of all sorts of sober Protestants, called Episcopal or Presbyterians, what reason hath any Erastian upon the account of the Magistrates interest to quarrel with them. If any practise not according to these principles, let them hear of it.
Indeed in point of convenience we greatly differ from some men: That is, 1. Whether it be convenient for the King to make Church-men Magistrates, or not? 2. And whether it be convenient immediately to back their Excommunications, with the Sword; And for the Magistrate to be the Clergies Executioner, or to imprison men eo nomine, because excommunicate and not repenting. 3. And whether it be convenient to make the same Court called Ecclesiastical, so mixed of Pastoral and Secular Power united, in one Chancellor (who is no Pastor, but a Lay man) or in a Bishop, as that in and by it, the Magistrates, and the Spiritual Government shall be either confounded, or so twisted as to be undiscernible, or become one tertium.
Indeed in point of convenience we greatly differ from some men: That is, 1. Whether it be convenient for the King to make Church-men Magistrates, or not? 2. And whether it be convenient immediately to back their Excommunications, with the Sword; And for the Magistrate to be the Clergies Executioner, or to imprison men eo nomine, because excommunicate and not repenting. 3. And whether it be convenient to make the same Court called Ecclesiastical, so mixt of Pastoral and Secular Power united, in one Chancellor (who is no Pastor, but a Lay man) or in a Bishop, as that in and by it, the Magistrates, and the Spiritual Government shall be either confounded, or so twisted as to be undiscernable, or become one tertium.