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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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62.
Last of all, the power of the Magistrate worketh only politically or civilly, according to the nature of the Sceptre or Sword, maketh and guardeth civill Laws, which sometimes also he changeth or repealeth, and other things of that kind he effecteth with a secular power: But the Ecclesiastical power dealeth spiritually, and only in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by authority entrusted or received from him alone: neither is it exercised without Prayer or calling on the Name of God; nor lastly doth it use any other then spiritual weapons.
Last of all, the power of the Magistrate worketh onely politically or civilly, according to the nature of the Scepter or Sword, maketh and guardeth civill Lawes, which sometimes also he changeth or repealeth, and other things of that kinde hee effecteth with a secular power: But the Ecclesiasticall power dealeth spiritually, and onely in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by authority entrusted or received from him alone: neither is it exercised without Prayer or calling on the Name of God; nor lastly doth it use any other then spirituall weapons.
63.
The same sin therefore in the same man may be punished one way by the civill, another way by the Ecclesiastical power; by the civill power under the formality of a crime, with corporal or pecuniary punishment; By the Ecclesiastical power, under the notion and nature of scandal, with a spiritual censure, even as also the same civill question is one way deliberate upon and handled by the Magistrate in the Senate or place of Judgement; another way by the Minister of the Church, in the Presbytery or Synod; by the Magistrate so far as it pertaineth to the Government of the Commonwealth, by the Minister, so far as it respects the conscience; for the Ecclesiastical Ministry also is exercised about civill things spiritually, in so far as it teacheth and admonisheth the Magistrate out of the Word of God what is best and most acceptable unto Gods or as it reproveth freely unjust judgements,