1This Junius, a Learned and Godly man, and much exercised in State Affairs, as appears by the Story of his Life, saw clearly; and therefore speaking of the Consent and Harmony of the Church and Civil State, in the concurrence of their several Administrations to the welfare of a Christian Common-wealth, he expresseth it by the conjunction of the Soul and Body in a Man; and concludeth, that Nothing will be of so much avail to the welfare of civil Administrations, as will the best Administrations of the Church giving attendance to the holy and just Communion of Saints, (ut ad parentem officiorum omnium) as to the Parent of all Duties: and, that Nothing will so secure and strengthen Church-Administrations, as that security (quam praebitura est justa pii Magistratus atque fidelis [Greek or Hebrew]) which the just Administrations of a godly and faithful Magistrate will afford. Now Pii & Fideles, Men that are godly and faithful, are such as are described in our stating of the Question. And having thus said, he breaks out into an affectionate Admiration of the Happiness of a Communion so ordered: Ecquid obsecro futurum est, si optima Ecclesia, cum Republicâ optima coal scat? O beatum populum, in quo uno ore, & uno animo, utraque administratio, ad sanctam communionem cum civili Societate continendam, & augendam conspiraverit! Non minuit illam haec administratio, sed altera alteram stantem, confirmat, labantem, statumina•, collapsam erigit. Which I thus English: What I pray may be expected in future times, •f the best Church and the best Common-wealth ⟨p. 19⟩grow up together? Oh blessed people, among whom each Administration shall conspire with one mouth, and one mind, to conjoin and advance the Communion of Saints with the Civil Society! One of these Administrations will not detract from the other, but each will confirm the other if it stand, and stay it if it be falling, and raise it up if it be fallen down. And a little after he thus concludeth, Magistratum cui credita est civilis administratio non in Ecclesia solum, sed etiam ex Ecclesia esse affirmamus; We affirm, that the Magistrate to whom the Civil Administration is committed, is or ought to be not only in the Church, but also taken out of the Church. Thus Junius thought, and taught, and published to the world.
1This Junius, a Learned and Godly man, and much exercised in State Affairs, as appears by the Story of his Life, saw clearly; and therefore speaking of the Consent and Harmony of the Church and Civil State, in the concurrence of their several Administrations to the welfare of a Christian Common-wealth, he expresseth it by the conjunction of the Soul and Body in a Man; and concludeth, that Nothing will be of so much avail to the welfare of civil Administrations, as will the best Administrations of the Church giving attendance to the holy and just Communion of Saints, (ut ad parentem officiorum omnium) as to the Parent of all Duties: and, that Nothing will so secure and strengthen Church-Administrations, as that security (quam praebitura est justa pii Magistratus atque fidelis 〈non-Latin alphabet〉) which the just Administrations of a godly and faithful Magistrate will afford. Now Pii & Fideles, Men that are godly and faithful, are such as are described in our stating of the Question. And having thus said, he breaks out into an affectionate Admiration of the Happiness of a Communion so ordered: Ecquid obsecro futurum est, si optima Ecclesia, cum Republicâ optima coal scat? O beatum populum, in quo uno ore, & uno animo, utraque administratio, ad sanctam communionem cum civili Societate continendam, & augendam conspiraverit! Non minuit illam haec administratio, sed altera alteram stantem, confirmat, labantem, statumina•, collapsam erigit. Which I thus English: What I pray may be expected in future times, •f the best Church and the best Common-wealth ⟨p. 19⟩grow up together? Oh blessed people, among whom each Administration shall conspire with one mouth, and one minde, to conjoyn and advance the Communion of Saints with the Civil Society! One of these Administrations will not detract from the other, but each will confirm the other if it stand, and stay it if it be falling, and raise it up if it be faln down. And a little after he thus concludeth, Magistratum cui credita est civilis administratio non in Ecclesia solum, sed etiam ex Ecclesia esse affirmamus; We affirm, that the Magistrate to whom the Civil Administration is committed, is or ought to be not onely in the Church, but also taken out of the Church. Thus Junius thought, and taught, and published to the world.
- 1Junius Eccles. lib. 3. chap. 5.
