lawfull. 3. We are to distinguish betwixt the supream Civill power of the Magistrate about matters of Religion or things Ecclesiasticall, and the ultimate and highest jurisdiction Eccle∣siasticall in matters of this kind, the one is not onely lawfull, but necessary, as a principall point of the Magistrates duty; the other doth not belong to the Magistrate, or any civill au∣thority, but to the Church, and authority Ecclesiasticall. To assume ordinarily after religion is setled, the last resolution and highest jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall in matters of Reli∣gion, unto which formall and legall appeales shall be made in Church matters from the Assemblies of the Church, is more I hope, then needeth to be feared from the wisdome, piety, and justice of the honourable Houses of Parliament. They have in their great wisdome, piety, and justice, removed Church-men from their Senat, and will neither have Prelats nor Pastors to sit with them in that supream civill Court: They have aboli∣shed high Commissions and Star-chambers, and therefore will not intermeddle, unlesse it be at extraordinary times, and in extraordinary cases with Church matters. It cannot be denied, but persons distressed by Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction, may by way of complaint, although not by way of accusation, expresse their unjust sufferings to whatsoever kind of persons, private or publick, in Church or State, and each one is to bear the bur∣then of another, much more therefore may they flie to the su∣pream civill authority, not to this end that the cause be recog∣nosced by them; but if need be, and they find it necessary, they may desire, or command the same to be resumed and exami∣ned again of new; but this Christian way of complaining, ma∣keth nothing for any formall or legall appeal from one kind of authority to another. Appellations must be from the inferior to the superior in the same kind.Before I proceed, there is one objection to be removed: If the power of the Church be not above the State in civill matters, nor the power of the State above the Church in matters of re∣ligion, if the Kingdoms of the world be not subordinate to the Kingdome of Christ, and if the Kingdome of Christ be not sub∣ordinate to the Kingdomes of the world, then it will follow, 0