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

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Next, the civill power is endued with authority of compelling, But it belongs not to the Ministry to compel the disobedient; If any compulsion be in or about Ecclesiastical matters, tis adventitious from without, to wit, from the help and assistance of the Magistrate, not from the nature of Ecclesiastical power, from which it is very heterogeneous; and therefore if any Suspended or Excommunicate person should be found who shall be so stiff-necked, and so impudent, ⟨p. 26⟩that at once he cast off all shame, and make no account at all of those censures, but scorn and contemn the same, or peradventure shall insolently or proudly engyre and obtrude himself upon the Sacrament, or being also filled with devilish malice do more and more contradict and blaspheme; the Ecclesiastical Ministry in such cases hath nothing more to do by way of jurisdiction: But the Magistrate hath in readiness a compelling jurisdiction and external force, whereby such stubborn rebellious and undaunted pride may be externally repressed.

Next, the civill power is indued with authority of compelling, But it belongs not to the Ministery to compell the disobedient; If any compulsion bee in or about Ecclesiasticall matters, tis adventitious from without, to wit, from the help and assistance of the Magistrate, not from the nature of Ecclesiasticall power, from which it is very heterogeneous; and therefore if any Suspended or Excommunicate person should be found who shall be so stiffe-necked, and so impudent, ⟨p. 26⟩that at once he cast off all shame, and make no account at all of those censures, but scorne and contemne the same, or peradventure shall insolently or proudly engyre and obtrude himself upon the Sacrament, or being also filled with devillish malice do more and more contradict and blaspheme; the Ecclesiasticall Ministery in such cases hath nothing more to do by way of jurisdiction: But the Magistrate hath in readinesse a compelling jurisdiction and externall force, whereby such stubborne rebellious and undaunted pride may bee externally repressed.