.: [ 453 J You may , find the .Argument in: Dr. Satpe/1, ( Bi{bop Guninls Chaplain, and Maller of a Col· k lege in Cambridp,e ) and many others. , This is fo plain dealing that one would think all Kings and Kingdoms !hould eafily unde.~:fiand i~ . . · But I.anfwer it. r. Whywill this pretend~d necefiity of correcting Kings and Kingdoms lnfer One Univerfal ChurchSoveraign any more than one King·or Senate over 'all rhe Earth ? · · Perhaps you,le fly~ Tbe Church is one, but Kingdomsare many. I anfwer, The whole Woi·ld on Earth is One Kingdom ofGod, · but particular Churches are many. · 2. Kings and whole Kingdoms i11all be punifh– ed as well as fingular·Pedons : But only by God the llniverfal King ; or by ·permitted EnemiesJ but not by any ,Humane Superior · .Governors. Kings are under the Laws of God and they Gull be judged by thofe Laws: If you lived in the due expectation of Dea'th and Judgment, you would not think them infignificant \.vords, that the Jull: Univ,t·[~l Judge is as at the Door, who only eau Judge l\.mgs. , 3· The Minifiers ofChril1 who know · them, and live under them, have fufficient Authority to adrponifh Kings and Kingdoms, and exercife Pai1oral Care of their Souls, by Preaching and Applying the Word ofGod ; as their own Phyli– cians are fittell: to take care oftheir Health, with– out fending to Rome, or over all the Earth for a - Council of Phyficians. What work rhefe Uni– verfal Rulers have made by Excommunicating..: Kings and Interdieting Kingdoms, HiHory ac– quainteth us: It hatb nor been fucl"Wls ihould Gg 3 11;1ake
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