2. AS they erre in mixing the prophaine with the holy, as* 1.1 members of Christ, so doe they also by mixing the Go∣vernment, whereby they would regulate their Church, making it partly Divine, and partly Morall, or prudentiall, partly of Christ, and partly Politticall, witnesse Mr. Lees, in his Answer to Mr Saltmarsh his new Quaree, page 10. and in so doing they disparage Christ, and his Apostles, in matter of judgement and abilities, as that they had the Theorie, to gather a Church, and not the Practick, to governe it being so gathered.
Now that it was a practise even abominable in the eyes of* 1.2 Christ, to mixe a prudentiall Government with that of his, in his Church wil evidently appeare, by his bitter invectives against the Scribes and Pharisees; as also in calling it a vaine worship.
Again, They who endeavour by a Temporall power, to subdue the inward, or Spirituall man, take a course contrary to what Christ and his Apostles used to that purpose, as will appeare by these texts of Scripture, viz. Mat. 10. 13, 14, 15. Mark 6. 11. Act. 13. 51.
But the Presbiterian Priests doth endeavour by such a power to* 1.3 suppresse, and bring into subjection, the aforesaid inward or Spiri∣tuall man to their obedience.
Ergo they practise contrary to the example of Christ, and his Apostles in that enterprise, and so consequently are violaters of the Covenant.