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

87.

Again it hath been before showed, that to Ecclesiastical evils Ecclesiastical remedies are appointed and fitted, for the Church is no less then the Common-wealth, through the grace of God, sufficient to it self in reference unto her own end: and as in the Common-wealth, so in the Church, the error of inferior judgements and Assemblies, or their evil Government, is to be corrected by superior Judgements and Assemblies, and so still by them of the same order, lest one order be confounded with another, or one Government be intermingled with another Government. What shall now the adversaries of Ecclesiastical power object here, which those who admit not the yoke of the Magistrate may not be ready in like manner to transfer against the civill Judicatories and Government of the Common-wealth? Seeing it happeneth sometimes that the Common-wealth is no less ill Governed then the Church.

Again it hath been before shewed, that to Ecclesiasticall evils Ecclesiasticall remedies are appointed and sitted, for the Church is no lesse then the Common-wealth, through the grace of God, sufficient to it self in reference unto her own end: and as in the Common-wealth, so in the Church, the errour of inferior judgements and Assemblies, or their evil Government, is to bee corrected by superior Judgements and Assemblies, and so still by them of the same order, lest one order be confounded with another, or one Government bee intermingled with another Government. What shall now the adversaries of Ecclesiasticall power object here, which those who admit not the yoke of the Magistrate may not bee ready in like manner to transferre against the civill Judicatories and Government of the Common-wealth? Seeing it happeneth sometimes that the Common-wealth is no lesse ill Governed then the Church.