22 Ri~~n p J9) f.u:,(.l"il: E!,d;J;l of BJhvo• in th-r~ ·d.tyc-s 1-e!o:Jged to 1he people, :m,l tcit the Pn"ce, u ..l Cafes about our 1Juty to our !i\fders. moo, or other Church-cxcrcifes tball be? what Prayers the Minifter !hall ufc? In what method , flull preach ? and what doctrine he !hall deliver, and the people hear? with many fuch like, Th, do mot\ nearly bdong to the Pafloral Office,to judge of as well as to execute: But ytt in fomc caks tht. M.1gHhace may interpofe his authority ? And herein, 1. If the one parry do determine ckarly to the mcdfuy prLfcrvation ofRcliglon, and the other to the ruine of it, the difparity of wnftqutnts make– cth 3. great difparity in the cafe: For here God hirr.fclf hath predetermined, who commandeth that aU be dom tocdific.ztimr. As for inHance, If a ChriAian Magittratc ordain that no affLmbly lhall con– till o~ above for~y or an hundred perfons, whe.n there arc: fo many Preac~crs ~nd places of mcning that It IS no detnmcnt to mens fouls, and efpcCially when the danger of mfeCbon or other t v~J war– ranttth ir, then I would obey that comrn.md of the Magiftratc, though the Paflors of the Church were ;;;~g1inH it, and commanded fuller meetings. But if a Julian 01ould command the fame thing on pt11puG: to wear out the ChriHian Religion, and when it tendeth to rhe ruine of mens fouls (a; .whrn P~eachets are fo (cw, that either ffi(,tC mu!\ meet together, or moll: mull: be untaught, and ex– dudLd horn Gods \Vod'hip, (here I would rathCI obey the Pa~ors that command the contrary, be– cmfe they do but ddiver the command of God, who detcrmmeth confrqucntially of the necdTary mcJ.ns, when he dttcrmincth_of. the end But .if the e~njeq:unt~ of the Magiftratcs and the P~tftors commands (hould be: tqttally ti!.differem, and netther of them. d1fcernably Good Ol' Bad, rhe difficulty thtn would be at the highett, and fuch as I !hall not here prdurne to determine. t!"lo..lll:\h V.I{W$ • • • . . by p:a.in force pbced LUCI:fS [here, ycc nughr the people lawfu~ly reJetl hJm .as no BJfuop, ::md cleave to Ptttr their rigbt Pail:or.] No doubt but the King is the Supream Governour over all the Schools, and Phyficions, and Hofpi– tals in the L~nd, !hat is, he is the Supream in the Civil Coercive Govermnent: He is Suprcam Ma4 giltrate over Divines, Phyficions and Schoolmafiers; but not the Supream Divine, Phyficion or School .. mafilr. ·when there is any work for the Office of the Magifirate, that is, for the fword, among any of them, ir belongerh only eo Him, and not at all to them: But when there is any work fOr the Divine, the Phylicion, the Sc:hoolrnafier, or if you will, for the Shoemaker, the Taylor, the WatchToo m 1 ny maker, this belongerh not to the King to do or give particular commands for : but yet it is all to P,lrticul.:u be done under hisGovernmtnt, and on fpecio~l c.tufcs he may make Laws to force them all to do i1ws ;aboU' rhdr feveral works aright, and eo refirain them from abufes. As ( to clear the cafe in hand) the ~tdcd m'\t:r~ King is informed th.lt Phyiicions take too ~reat Fees of their Patitnts ; that fome through ignorance, ri~enc. con c · and fnme through covecoufm:fs give ill compounded Medicines, and pernicious Drugs: No doubt but Altx.St:.mus the King, by the advice of underfianding men, may forbid the ufe of fuch Drltgs as are found per– wou'd ~ave nicious w his Subjects, and may regulate not only the Fees, but the Compofitions and Artendances of d1 ~111~~~1:1 Phyficions. But if he (hould command that a man in a Fcavor, or Droplie, or Confumption, lhall ~cno~~ their have no Medicine but this f)J that, and fb oft, and in fuch or fuch a do[e, and with fuch or 'fuch a 3pp:uel:. SeJ dyet, and the Ph)'ficions wf.bm my reafon bindeth me to trufi ( and perhaps my own experience at– hoc Ulpllno, (i)) do tell me that all thefe things are bad for me, and different tempers and accidents require dif– &t:i~!_o;:;:- ffrent remcdic.s, and that I am like to dye, or hazard m.y health~ if I obey not them contrary tot he ~emib~, plu· Kings cc-mmands, here I (hould rather obey my Phyfic10ns; partly becaufe tlft· I lhould fin againU rimum God, who commanderb me the pr(fcrvation ot my life; and pa.ttly benufe this maner more: be– ri"ar~m r;(~' longeth to the Phyl~~ion than to the MagiHrate: Mr. Rich. Hoo~cr Ecc/. Polit. lib. S. P· 223,224. ~<!~~:~~~'ines givcrh you the Reaion more fully. ad injuri:~s: • . , . . . . . . . and the Emperour yieJJed to them: I.ttm7r:d. tJ Alt:r. Sn.w, L1p{t11s. llbJ leges mult:r, 1h1 htes rr.ukl'j & VJta morefque prav~ Non muh~ Jc~~s bonos men-~ factunt, (o,;d paucx hrlcllter ferv:nz. Dirtl1. 25· 9· 54· DireCl. 25· Give not the Magijlratfl Powtrto any otbtr: mhtthtr ts the People, Olt pretence of tllrirMajrltas Reaiis (as they call it ) or to the Pope, or Prelates, or PajlorJ of the Church, upM prerence of outharity from Cbrijf, or of the dijtinllion ofEcclefiajticalGovcrmnent and Ciuil. The peoples preten– tions to Natural Authority, or Real Majcfty, or Collation ot Power, I have confuted before, and more dfcwhere: I he Popes, Prelates and Paftors power of the Sword in Caufcs EcclefiafiicaJ, is difprovt.d fo fully by Bi!bop Bilfon ubi [upra, and many more, that it is necdlds to fay much more of itAll Proteflants, fo far as I know are agreed, that no Bifhop or Patior hath any power of the Sword, rhat is, of Coercion, or force upon men bodies, liberties or ellares, except as Magiflrates derived from N.!. QE:e their Soveraign. Their fpirirual power is only upon Confcnters, in the ufe of Gods Word upon the habet All· Confcience, either generally in preaching, or with perfonal application in Di[cipline. No Courts or Jrtws Tort. Commands (;an compell any to appear orfubmir, nor Jay the mulct of a pLnny upon any, but by Tort.p.jl.J. their own confc:nt, or the Magiflrates authority. But this rhe Papiils will few of them confi::fs: For ~da~~~ dfif once the Sword were takc:n tfom them, th~ world would quickly fee that their ~hurch. had the lo jur s ex.· hearts of few of thoft: m.ultirudes whrm by Fue an~ Sword they fo.rccd to .feem thcu members: or tcrior, Cbus at lcafi, that when the wmdows were optned, the f1ght would quiCkly dchver poor fouls from the proprie non fervit.ude of thofe mtn ol darkne(~.. !-or then few would fear the unrighteous excommunications of ~~: ::~;i~e meer. Ulurp·ers. his a m.mifold UfuJpation by which their Kingdom is uph,ld (For a Kingdom it is f.l!pe nund1- . ti~, qui Laicorurn Jll forte fum:, exor;es fanc facri ordinis univerfi, rather
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