A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.

63. (Book 63)

The same sinne therefore in the same man may be punished one way by the civill, another way by the ecclesiasticall Power; By the civill Power under the formality of a crime, with corporall or pecuniary punishment: By the ecclesiasti∣call Power, under the notion or nature of scandall, with a spirituall censure; even as also the same civill question is one way deliberate upon and handled by the Magistrate in the Se∣nate or place of Judgement; another way by the Minister of the Church, in the Presbytery or Synod: By the Magistrate, so farre as it pertaineth to the Government of the Common-wealth; by the Minister, so far as it respects the conscience; for the ecclesiastiall Ministery also is exercised about civil things spiritually, in so far as it teacheth and admonisheth the Magistrate out of the Word of God what is best and most ac∣ceptable unto God; or as it reproveth freely unjust judgements,

unjust wars, and the like, and out of the Scripture threatneth the wrath of God to be revealed against all unrighteousness of men: So also is the Magistrate said to be occupied civilly about spiritual things.