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THE Right of the CHURCH, IN A CHRISTIAN STATE.
CHAP. I.
The Church hath no temporall power, but stands by Gods priviledge of holding Assemblies. The ground of the Secular powers interesse in Church matters. The power of the Keys what it is, and that it cannot be taken from the Church.
IT is visible to all understandings that there are two states of Gods Church. For, there must needs be a great difference between the Church, as it was first established, by the ordinances of the Apostles, before the exer∣cise of Christianity was allowed and privi∣ledged by the Laws of the Romane Empire; and as it now standeth, protected by the Laws of Christian Kingdomes and Com∣monwealths. And my purpose is here to de∣bate, what power the Church ought to have in this later state, and what Right accrues