A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the vvay of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the vvord, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered : whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E.

Argument 1.

If it be in the Magistrates power lawfully to forbid and hin∣der, then it is not in the power of the Churches lawfully to do.

For then the same thing should, in the same regard be law∣full and unlawfull: an the rules of providence should be op∣posite one to another.

But the supreme Magistrate may lawfully hinder any people of another Kingdome to come into his: or his own subjects to go out of his territories without his leave.

Otherwise, he should want lawfull power to oppose such, as would come in to undermine or lay wast the State, and to de∣fend himselfe.

And should also not have authority to require homage of his own people.

Now without the comming in of many, from all Nations, or

the going out of his own subjects to other Nations, there will be no generall concurrence, nor councel.

And the same power he hath to confine his own people from such generall Assemblings, within his own precincts. For there may be the like just reasons.