A53733:143
Truth and innocence vindicated in a survey of a discourse concerning ecclesiastical polity, and…
Truth and innocence vindicated in a survey of a discourse concerning ecclesiastical polity, and the authority of the civil magistrate over the consciences of subjects in matters of religion.
London : s.n., 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Sovereign power over the Consciences of men to institute, appoint, and prescribe Religion, and the Worship of God, they affirm to belong unto him alone, who is the Author and Finisher of our Faith, who is the head over all things to the Church. The Administration of things merely Spiritual in the Worship of God is, they judge, derived immediately from him to the Ministers, and Administrators of the Gospel, possessed of their Offices by his Command, and according to his institution; as to the external practice of Religion, and Religious Worship as such, it is, they say, in the power of the Magistrate to regulate all the outward civil concernments of it, with reference unto the preservation of public peace, and Tranquillity, and the prosperity of his subjects; ⟨p. 165⟩And herein also they judge that such respect is to be had to the Consciences of men, as the Scripture, the Nature of the thing it self, and the right of the L. Christ to introduce his spiritual Kingdom into all Nations, do require.
The Soveraign power over the Consciences of men to institute, appoint, and prescribe Religion, and the Worship of God, they affirm to belong unto him alone, who is the Author and Finisher of our Faith, who is the head over all things to the Church. The Administration of things meerly Spiritual in the Worship of God is, they judge, derived immediately from him to the Ministers, and Administrators of the Gospel, possessed of their Offices by his Command, and according to his institution; as to the external practice of Religion, and Religious Worship as such, it is, they say, in the power of the Magistrate to regulate all the outward civil concernments of it, with reference unto the preservation of publick peace, and Tranquillity, and the prosperity of his subjects; ⟨p. 165⟩And herein also they judge that such respect is to be had to the Consciences of men, as the Scripture, the Nature of the thing it self, and the right of the L. Christ to introduce his spiritual Kingdom into all Nations, do require.