47. (Book 47)
The matter may further bee thus illustrated: There is al∣most the like respect and consideration of the Magistrate as he
CXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church
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- Title
- CXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church
- Author
- Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
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- Edinburgh :: Printed by Evan Tyler ...,
- 1647.
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- Church of England -- Government.
- Church polity.
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is occupied about the outward things of the Church, and of the Ecclesiastick Ministery as it is occupied about the inward or spirituall part of civill Government, that is, about those things which in the Government of the Commonwealth be∣long to the conscience. It is one thing to governe the Com∣monwealth, and to make politicall and civill Lawes; ano∣ther thing to interpret the Word of God, and out of it to shew to the Magistrate his duty, to wit, how he ought to go∣verne the Commonwealth, and in what manner he ought to use the sword. The former is proper and peculiar to the Ma∣gistrate (neither doth the Ministery intermeddle or intangle it self into such businesses,) but the latter is contained within the office of the Ministers.