Elements of policy civil and ecclesiastical : in a mathematical method . DEFINITIONS. UURCH is a Society of Menunited for the Prefcrvationof the Chriftian Faich^ andto promote the EternalHappinefs of Mankind. 2. Ecckfiaftical Power is an Ability ofobtaining thefe Ends. 3. Schif7fi is an Internal Obftrucftionof thofe Methods, by which this Societyworks to obtain its Ends. 4. Regale is an External Method ofobftruding thcfe Ends, when the CivilPower difturbs this Society, altho it ac^sin its proper Sphere. • A XI- •4^ -A. -JV* ^U ?><*. A A^ 4\i -JU -A. JU A. ^JU ^ -A, A X I 0 MS. G O D is t
Elements of policy civil and ecclesiastical : in a mathematical method . DEFINITIONS. UURCH is a Society of Menunited for the Prefcrvationof the Chriftian Faich^ andto promote the EternalHappinefs of Mankind. 2. Ecckfiaftical Power is an Ability ofobtaining thefe Ends. 3. Schif7fi is an Internal Obftrucftionof thofe Methods, by which this Societyworks to obtain its Ends. 4. Regale is an External Method ofobftruding thcfe Ends, when the CivilPower difturbs this Society, altho it ac^sin its proper Sphere. • A XI- •4^ -A. -JV* ^U ?><*. A A^ 4\i -JU -A. JU A. ^JU ^ -A, A X I 0 MS. G O D is the Supreme Power of theUniverfe. 2. No Power given by GOD can becancelld, or made of no Effect by Hu-mane Laws, 3. GOD never inftituted Two Socie-ties in fuch a Manner, that the Powerof One fhould deftroy the Other. 4. All Societies have certain Means topreferve Pro- * ^ #?««*# ^ ^ ^ ^^ # -oT « Proposition I. Tis no Contradi&io7iy that tv)o Independent Powers jhotdd extend ouer one and the fame Perfony if they regard different Ends. F both thefe Powers can obtain theirEnds, it can be no Contradidion, by I Definition i. Part I. Nothing can deftroy thefe Ends, but aSuppolition that One of thofe Powers candeftroy what the Other ac the fame Timewou d do i or, in plainer Terms, onePower can defeat the other, and render hisA<Stions invalid, ^ This cannot be done by any Claim ofRight of one Power over the other, be-caufe by the Hypothefes they are Indepen-dent ; nor can it by an equal Right ob-tain the fame End, becaufe by the Hypo* thcfes (40) ihefes thofe Powers extend over differentEnds. It remains tlicreforc, that what eachPower performs in its proper Sphere,tends to the Dcftrudlion of the otherPower. This c-in be by no other Means, but byobfiriK^ing the Methods by which the Power q.^\s. The Methods by which the Ends ofSociet
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