Particular Churches and Pastors how far essential to a National Church, and what are its materials.

Chap. IV. Particular Churches and Pastors how far essential to a National Church, and what are its materials.

§ 1. There is more essential to a National Church than the mere Formal Cause or Sovereign: Matter is essential as well as Form: Yet not all parts of the Matter neither, though all be parts Integral. As in the Body, a man cannot be a man without a stomach, liver, and lungs, and heart; but he may without a finger, or a hand, or leg.

§ 1. THere is more essential to a National Church than the meer Formal Cause or Soveraign: Matter is essential as well as Form: Yet not all parts of the Matter neither, though all be parts Integral. As in the Body, a man cannot be a man without a stomach, liver, and lungs, and heart; but he may without a finger, or a hand, or leg.

§ 2. I doubt not but I have proved that the Sovereign Magistrate is the Formal Humane Head of his Kingdom, and as Christian of the Kingdom as Christian: And nothing remaineth disputable but de Nomine, whether a Christian Kingdom must be named a Church: which Custom, Etymology and Scripture ⟨p. 12⟩put past question. Our Civilians (such as Dr. Zouch, Dr. Rich. Cousins, &c. and our Lawyers say trulier than most have believed, that the King is persona mixta, & Custos utriusque Tabulae, and Head of the Church as a Christian Kingdom. And for want of knowing this, and the true nature and bounds of his Office, how foully many have miscarried, I have showed.

§ 2. I doubt not but I have proved that the Soveraign Magistrate is the Formal Humane Head of his Kingdom, and as Christian of the Kingdom as Christian: And nothing remaineth disputable but de Nomine, whether a Christian Kingdom must be named a Church: which Custom, Etymology and Scripture ⟨p. 12⟩