The keys of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word…The keyes of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word…

1. The first sort be civill matters, [Greek or Hebrew] the things of this life, as is the disposing of mens goods or lands, lives, or liberties, tributes, customs, worldly honours, and inheritances. In these the Church submitteth, and referreth it self to the civill State. Christ as minister of the circumcision, refused to take upon him the dividing of Inheritances amongst Brethren, as impertinent to his calling, Luk. 12.13, 14. His kingdom (he acknowledgeth) is not of this world, Joh. 18.36. Himself payed tribute to Cesar, (Matth. 17.27.) for himself and his disciples.

1. The first sort be civill matters, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the things of this life, as is the disposing of mens goods or lands, lives, or liberties, tributes, customes, worldly honours, and inheritances. In these the Church submitteth, and referreth it self to the civill State. Christ as minister of the circumcision, refused to take upon him the dividing of Inheritances amongst Brethren, as impertinent to his calling, Luk. 12.13, 14. His kingdome (he acknowledgeth) is not of this world, Joh. 18.36. Himself payed tribute to Cesar, (Matth. 17.27.) for himself and his disciples.

2. The second sort of things which concern civill peace, is, the establishment of pure Religion, in doctrine, worship, and government, according to the word of God: as also the reformation of all corruptions in any of these. On this ground the good Kings of Judah, commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to worship him, according to his own statutes and commandments: and the contrary corruptions of strange gods, high places, Images, and Groves, they removed, and are commended of God, and obeyed by the Priests and people in so doing,