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

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.

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