C 271 j the Divinity of that mojt accomplifh'd Puritan Leader Mr. Cartwright, who exprefly tells us, the Church (by this he means his ownGenevaChurch) may be efiablifh'd without the Magiflrate. " IF, indeed (fays he) the Magfflrate,Defenee of cc whom God bath fan6ified to be a the Admon. " Nurfe unto the Church, were alfo 5" " the Head of the fame, then the Church couldnot be eflablifhedwith- " out the Magiflrate. But we learn, " that altho' the godly Magifirate be " theHead of theCommonwealth, and " the great Ornament unto the Church, " yet he is BUT aMember of the fame. " the Church may be eflablijhedwyth- " oute the Magiflrate." This is no Ab/lral or Abridgment, but the very Words of the Author himfelf; and his Followers did accordingly at upon this Principle, to the great Difturbance of a the publick Peace. Many (f ys Life of Grin- " Mr. Strype) were now zealous for dal, p.1 i s. cc the new way of Difcipline in the Ann. '576' " Church, conformable to that pratif- " ed at Geneva by Elders, which was " quite different from the ancient and " prefent Government by Bifhops and " their Officers. The fame labour9d to `` bring in a new Form of publickPray. " er, in the Room of the Englifl Li- cc turgy. Thofe Perfons, whowere for r thefe.
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