A42763:112
CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church
Edinburgh: printed by Evan Tyler, 1647
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The object of Ecclesiastical power is not the same with the object of the Civill power, but much differing from it; for the Ecclesiastical power doth determine and appoint nothing concerning mens bodies, goods, dignities, civill rights, but is employed only about the inward man, or the soul; not that it can search the hearts, or judge of the secrets of the conscience, which is in the Power of God alone: Yet notwithstanding it hath for its proper object those externals which are purely spiritual, and do belong properly and most nearly to the spiritual good of the soul; Which also are termed, [Greek or Hebrew] the inward things of the Church.
The object of Ecclesiasticall power is not the same with the object of the Civill power, but much differing from it; for the Ecclesiasticall power doth determine and appoint nothing concerning mens bodies, goods, dignities, civill rights, but is imployed only about the inward man, or the soul; not that it can search the hearts, or judge of the secrets of the conscience, which is in the Power of God alone: Yet notwithstanding it hath for its proper object those externalls which are purely spirituall, and do belong properly and most nearly to the spirituall good of the soul; Which also are tearmed, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the inward things of the Church.