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HAuing finished the poynt of y• au∣toritie of the body of the Churche, it resteth to see what is the duty & authority of ye principall mēbers therof, the which I thinke may be very wel de∣uided into .4. kindes: the one hath charge to teach, the other to distribute the eccle∣siastical goodes, the other to gouerne the spyrituall affayres, which is the eccle∣siasticall
ordinaunces and disciplyne, the other to haue respecte as well to the publyke affayres of this lyfe, as gene∣rallye to mayntaine the tranquillitie of the whole Churche, with the power of the sword. But those which haue separa∣ted themselues (being called the Church or the cleargye) from those which be cal∣led lay people, as though they were not members of the Churche (yea from the most noble) haue greatly erred, consyde∣ring that Kings in the scripture are cal∣led the annointed of the Lorde, a (as are all the faithfull b) and S. Peter dyd vn∣derstande by this worde clergie c (which is as much to say a porcion or heritage) all the whole Chuch of God.
This is cō∣mon in all the bookes of the kings & Psalmes.
Psal. 105.
1. Peter. 5. 1. Iohn. 2.