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Therefore these things I write absent, that being present I may not deale hardly, according to the power which our Lord hath giuen me vnto edification, and not vnto destruction.
Ecclesiastical ∴ power to punish offenders by the censures of the church.
Which power we reuerence and kéepe offenders in awe with∣all, though we contemne and despise the vsurped power of the Romish church, and care not for her thunderbolts.