A42763:132
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 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, ⟨p. 27⟩unjust wars, and the like, and out of the Scripture threateneth the wrath of God to be revealed against all unrighteousness of men; So also is the Magistrate said to be occupied civilly about spiritual things.
The same sinne therefore in the same man may be punished one way by the civill, another way by the Ecclesiasticall power; by the civill power under the formality of a crime, with corporall or pecuniary punishment; By the Ecclesiasticall power, under the notion and nature of scandall, with a spirituall 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 Synode; by the Magistrate so farre as it pertaineth to the Government of the Commonwealth, by the Minister, so far as it respects the conscience; for the Ecclesiasticall Ministery 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,