5. Hence ariseth another Difference about the Objects of these different States: for though both agree in this, that they have the common Welfa•• for their aim and scope; yet the things about which the Civil Power is primarily conversant, are Bodies, [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Cor. 6.4. or [Greek or Hebrew], the things of this life, as Goods, Lands, Honour, the Liberties and Peace of the outward man. The things whereabout the Church Power is exercised, are [Greek or Hebrew],1 The things of God, as the Souls and Consciences of men, the Doctrine and Worship of God, the Communion of the Saints. Hence also 1. They have different Laws: 2. Different Officers: 3. Different Power, whereby to reduce men to Order, according to their different Objects and Ends. Now that a just harmony may be kept between these two different Orders and Administrations, two Extremes must be avoided: 1. That they be not confounded, either by giving the Spiritual Power, which is proper to the Church, into the hand of the Civil Magistrate, as Erastus would have done in the matter of Excommunication. If any Magistrate should presume to thrust himself by his Authority or otherwise, into a Work which properly belongs to a Church-Officer, let him remember what befell Saul and Uzziah for so doing: or 2. By giving Civil Power to Church-Officers, who are called to attend only to Spiritual matters, and the things of God, and therefore may not be distracted from them by Secular entanglements. I say, Church-Officers, not Church-members; for they (not being limited as the Officers are by God) are capable of two different employments, suiting with two different Men in them, in different respects, as hath been said: and as they may lawfully be employed about things of this life; so they are of all men fittest, being sanctified and dedicated to God to carry on all worldly and civil business to Gods ends, as we shall declare ⟨p. 8⟩in due time. But concerning Church-Officers. I am able with Gods help to prove, that the devolving of Civil Power upon Pastors of Churches, (upon how specious pretences soever it began) gave that Rise to the Man of Sin, which at last set his feet on the necks of the Princes of the Earth, yea, of the Emperors of the World.
5. Hence ariseth another Difference about the Objects of these different States: for though both agree in this, that they have the common Welfa•• for their aime and scope; yet the things about which the Civil Power is primarily conversant, are Bodies, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 1 Cor. 6.4. or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the things of this life, as Goods, Lands, Honour, the Liberties and Peace of the outward man. The things whereabout the Church Power is exercised, are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,1 The things of God, as the Souls and Consciences of men, the Doctrine and Worship of God, the Communion of the Saints. Hence also 1. They have different Laws: 2. Different Officers: 3. Different Power, whereby to reduce men to Order, according to their different Objects and Ends. Now that a just harmony may be kept between these two different Orders and Administrations, two Extremes must be avoided: 1. That they be not confounded, either by giving the Spiritual Power, which is proper to the Church, into the hand of the Civil Magistrate, as Erastus would have done in the matter of Excommunication. If any Magistrate should presume to thrust himself by his Authority or otherwise, into a Work which properly belongs to a Church-Officer, let him remember what befell Saul and Ʋzziah for so doing: or 2. By giving Civil Power to Church-Officers, who are called to attend onely to Spiritual matters, and the things of God, and therefore may not be distracted from them by Secular intanglements. I say, Church-Officers, not Church-members; for they (not being limited as the Officers are by God) are capable of two different imployments, suting with two d•fferent Men in them, in different respects, as hath been said: and as they may lawfully be imployed about things of this life; so they are of all men fittest, being sanctified and dedicated to God to carry on all worldly and civil business to Gods ends, as we shall declare ⟨p. 8⟩in due time. But concerning Church-Officers. I am able with Gods help to prove, that the devolving of Civil Power upon Pastors of Churches, (upon how specious pretences soever it began) gave that Rise to the Man of Sin, which at last set his feet on the necks of the Princes of the Earth, yea, of the Emperours of the World.
- 1Heb. 5.1.
