The B. of Salisbury.The B. of Sarisburie.

The B. of Salisbury.

The B. of Sarisburie.

Joshua was commanded to go in, and out, and to be directed by the voice of Eleazarus the High Priest: Therefore, ye say, in Spiritual Causes, the Priests may not be controlled by the Prince. Ye deliver out your Arguments, M. Harding, before they be ready. These pieces would have been better tied together.

Iosua was commaunded to goe in, and out, and to be directed by the voice of Eleazarus the High Prieste: Therefore, yée saie, in Spiritual Causes, the Priestes maie not be controlled by the Prince. Yée deliuer out youre Argumentes, M. Hardinge, before they be ready. These péeces would haue benne better tied togeather.

Though the Prince be commanded to hear the Priest, yet if the Priest be negligent, or deceive the people, he may by his Ordinary Authority control the Priest.

Though the Prince be commaunded to heare the Prieste, yet if the Prieste be negligente, or deceiue the people, he maie by his Ordinarie Authoritie controlle the Prieste.

When Aaron, the High Priest, had consented to the making, and worshipping of the Golden Calf,¹ Moses, being then the Temporal Prince, rebuked him sharply unto his face: and in so doing, did not the Bishops Office, but only his own. As touching Joshua, whom ye would fain have restrained from all Ecclesiastical Causes, he caused the people to be Circumcised: He caused Altars for their Bloody Sacrifices to be erected: He caused the Priests to make their Sacrifices: He caused the Deuteronomy to be written in stones: He caused both the Blessings, and the Curses of God to be pronounced: He spake openly to the people, and frayed them from Idolatry. Al these were cases, not of Civil Policy,