CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church

49.

And in such external matters of the Church, although all Magistrates will not, yet all, yea even heathen Magistrates may and ought to aide and help the Church; Whence it is that by the command of God, Prayers are to be made also for an heathen Magistrate, that the faithful under them may live a quiet life with all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim. 2. 1, 2.

And in such externall matters of the Church, although all Magistrates will not, yet all, yea even heathen Magistrates may and ought to aide and help the Church; Whence it is that by the command of God, Prayers are to be made also for an heathen Magistrate, that the faithfull under them may live a quiet life with all godlinesse and honesty. 1 Tim. 2. 1, 2.

50.

Unto the external things of the Church belongeth, not only the correction of Heretics and other troublers of the ⟨p. 22⟩Church, but also that civill order and way of convocating and calling together Synods which is proper to the Magistrate; for the Magistrate ought by his authority and power both to establish the Rights and Liberties of Synods assembling together, at times appointed by the known and received Law, and to indict and gather together Synods occasionally, as often as the necessity of the Church shall require the same; Not that all or any power to consult or determine of Ecclesiastic or Spiritual matters doth flow or spring from the Magistrate as Head of the Church under Christ; but because in those things pertaining to the outward man, the Church needeth the Magistrates aid and support.