The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . Let them onely proceed and go forward. OB i8f OF THE LAWES O F Ecclefiaftical Policy; ^, 7he eighth BooJ^. Containing their feventh -^fftrtion, ihAt t0 no civil Prince or Govemour^ there may be given fuch
The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . Let them onely proceed and go forward. OB i8f OF THE LAWES O F Ecclefiaftical Policy; ^, 7he eighth BooJ^. Containing their feventh -^fftrtion, ihAt t0 no civil Prince or Govemour^ there may be given fuch power of El .clefiafiicd Dominion as by the Laws of this Land belongeth unto thefupreme Regent thereof. E come now to the laft thitig whereof there is controver-lie moved, namely thepvcer of fupreme )itrifdillioHf whichfor diftinftion fake we call the fotper of EcelefiafUcalDonii-nion. It was not thought fit in the Jews Common-ipealthythat the exercife of Supremacy Ecclefiajikal fliould be de-nied unto him, to whom the exercifeof Chiefly Civil didappertain; and therefore their Kings were invefledwith both. This power they gave unto Simon, whenthey confented that hefhould be their Prince, not onlyto fet men over their works, and countrey, and wea-pons, but alfo to provide for the holy things •, and that he iliould be obeyedof every man, and that the writings of the countrey thould be made in hisname; andthat it (houldnot belawfuU for any of the people or Priefts towithftand his words,or
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