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I beleeue, and receyue in this Church two swords, that is to say, two powers, the one is ecclesiasticall, and spirituall, the which lyeth and consisteth in the only ad∣ministration of the woorde, and of the Sacraments, the which beareth neither rodde nor staffe, other then the tongue, neither doeth vse any other knyfe then the sworde of the spirite, which is the
word of God. Likewise I confesse that all those that haue this sword in their handes, ought to be without blame, aswell in their lyuing as in their doctrine, otherwise, they ought to be deposed, & others to be placed in their roumes & to put & ordayne others that are better in their places. The other power is temporall, that is to say, the ma∣gistrate, which hath authority ouer externe and ciuill thinges, to render according to right to euery man, that which of right to him appertayneth.