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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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45.
The second differences in the object, or matter about which: The power politic or civill is occupied about the outward man, and civill or earthly things, about War, Peace, conservation of Justice, and good order in the Commonwealth; also about the outward business or external things of the Church, which are indeed necessary to the Church, or profitable, as touching the outward man, yet not properly and purely spiritual, for they do not reach unto the soul, but only to the external state and condition of the Ministers and Members of the Church.
The second differences in the object, or matter about which: The power politick or civill is occupied about the outward man, and civill or earthly things, about Warre, Peace, conservation of Justice, and good order in the Commonwealth; also about the outward businesse or externall things of the Church, which are indeed necessary to the Church, or profitable, as touching the outward man, yet not properly and purely spirituall, for they doe not reach unto the soul, but only to the externall state and condition of the Ministers and Members of the Church.
46.
For the better understanding whereof, tis to be observed that so far as the Ministers and Members of the Church are Citizens, Subjects, or Members of the Commonwealth, it is in the power of the Magistrate, to judge, determine and give sentence concerning the disposing of their bodies or goods; As also concerning the maintenance of the poor, sick, the banished, and of others in the Church which are afflicted; To regulate (so far as concerneth the civill order) Marriages, Burials, and other circumstances which are common both to holy, and also to honest civill societies; to afford places fit for holy Assemblies and other external helps by which the sacred matters of the Lord may be more safely, commodiously, and more easily in the Church performed: To remove the external impediments of divine Worship or of Ecclesiastical Peace, and to repress those which exalt themselves against the true Church and her Ministers, and do raise up trouble against them.