True it is that the ciuill gouernment is distinguished from the ecclesiastical: but there is some thing common to them both, as these ciuill offices wherof we speake.
The place to the Thes. which the Authors of the Admonition vse, pag. 227. to proue that the gouernment of the Churche ought to be spirituall, can not be vsed to make any distinction betwixt ciuill and ecclesiasticall gouernment. For by your owne con∣fession this portion (are ouer you in the Lord) which you would haue to make this di∣stinction, is aswell spoken of the ciuill Magistrate, as it is of the Pastor, and so it is in déede, and therfore this text is abused both by them and you. The Apostle vseth the same maner of spéeche; speaking of the obedience of wiues towards their husbands, Vxores subditae estote proprijs viris, sicuti decet in Domino: VViues be subiect vnto your owne* 1.1 husbands, as it behoueth you in the Lord. And yet you will not say that the gouernment of the husbande ouer his wife is onely spirituall. And therefore howsoeuer you 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ally out the matter, with saying that S. Paule heere 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ascribeth this vnto the ecclesiasticall gouernours, yet it will not serue your turne, for he ascribeth it also to those that be ciuill. The ecclesiasticall gouernours haue all their whole care set vpon that onely whych perteyneth to the lyfe to come: True it is, and to the same ende ten〈1 line〉〈1 line〉eth the ciuill gouernment which they doe exercise, as I haue tolde you before.