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But M. Doctor sayth that ciuill offices are not to be counted worldly affayres, but heauen∣ly and spirituall▪ it is so: and yet when they are compared with the Ecclesiasticall offices. they may be called secular offices, for so much as they to gether with the care of religion, procure and prouide
for the things whereby we may quietly and commodiously liue here, where the Ecclesiasticall offi∣ces are immediatly and onely bente to procure the glory of God and the saluation of men, and in that signification of heauenly and spirituall which you take, marchandise, husbandry, and the han∣dycrafte be heauenly, and spirituall, although not in the same degree. All lawfull callinges came from God, and returne to him agayne, that is, he is both author of them and they ought to be re∣ferred to his glory, so that if the mynister may exercise all things which be heauenly and spirituall, you may as well bryng him downe to the plough, as promote him to the court.
I call them Ecclesiasticall, bycause they perteyne to the inwarde man, to the* 1.1 reformation of manners, to the punishment of sinne, to the mayntenance of Reli∣gion, to the quietnesse of the Churche, and good order in the same: so do not all cyuill offices, much lesse, husbandry, marchandise, handycraftes, goyng to the plough and suche lyke, whiche onely perteyne to the body and to this lyfe, not beyng referred to the endes, that I haue before named. Wherefore here your wittes fayled you, and I looke for a better Answere.
The cluill iurisdiction now vsed is in some respect ecclesiasticall.