A27054:771
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
But other Presbyterians and Diocesans say that when the Church hath excommunicated a man, the Magistrate is bound to force him by imprisonment, fines, or corporal penalties to repent and be reconciled: And the Papists say that men judged Heretics he must burn or banish: which is all false, as shall be proved in the third book.
But other Presbyterians and Diocesans say that when the Church hath excomunicated a man, the Magistrate is bound to force him by imprisonment, fines, or corporal penalties to repent and be reconciled: And the Papists say that men judged Hereticks he must burn or banish: which is all false, as shall be proved in the third book.
§. 10. V. The fifth sort hold, that as Melchizedek and Christ were both Priests and Kings, so it should be now: And some say (before confuted) that every King is the chief Priest; and others that the chief Priest should be King; and that the Pope is the universal Monarch having both swords, Spiritual and Corporal: But as to the execution, Bishops are to obey him in excommunicating Heretics (that is, his adversaries) and Kings in killing or banishing, otherwise he may depose both Kings and Bishops: But against this more in due place.
§. 10. V. The fifth sort hold, that as Melchizedek and Christ were both Priests and Kings, so it should be now: And some say (before confuted) that every King is the chief Priest; and others that the chief Priest should be King; and that the Pope is the universal Monarch having both swords, Spiritual and Corporal: But as to the execution, Bishops are to obey him in excommunicating Hereticks (that is, his adversaries) and Kings in killing or banishing, otherwise he may depose both Kings and Bishops: But against this more in due place.
§. 11. VI. As to the Radical power of the people I have said so much against it in my Christian Directory in confutation of Richard Hookers Ecclesiastical Policy, that I need to add no more. In my Political Aphorisms I more fully opened this. I conclude with the common Christian judgment, that the Civil Magistrate only hath the power of Ruling by the sword.