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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	ecclesiastical_a	supreme_a	2,155	5	8.4962	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53733	Truth and innocence vindicated in a survey of a discourse concerning ecclesiastical polity, and the authority of the civil magistrate over the consciences of subjects in matters of religion.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1669 (1669)	Wing O817; ESTC R14775	171,951	414

and not of this World though exercised in it having their respect only unto Eternity and by their being taken into the sole disposal of the Soveraign Lord of Consciences who hath accompanied His Commands concerning them with His own Promises and Threatnings plainly exempted should have power over the Consciences of men so to lay their Commands upon them in these spiritual things as to back them with Temporal Corporal Restraints and Punishments is a way of Arguing that will not be confined unto any of those Rules of reasoning which hitherto we have been instructed in When the Magistrate hath an Arm like God and can Thunder with a Voice like Him when he judgeth not after the sight of his eyes nor reproveth after the hearing of his ears when he can smile the Earth with the Rod of his Mouth and slay the Wicked with the breath of his Lipps when he is constituted a judge of the Faith Repentance and Obedience of men and of their Efficacy in their Tendency unto the pleasing of God here and the Enjoyment of Him hereafter when Spiritual Things in order to their Eternal Issues and Effects are made subject unto Him in brief when he is Christ let him act as Christ or rather most unlike Him and guide the Consciences of men by Rods Axes and Halters whereunto alone his power can reach who in the mean time have an express command from the Lord Christ Himself not to have their Consciences influenced in the least by the consideration of these things Of the like Complexion is the ensuing Discourse wherein our Author p. 43. having spoken contemptuously of the Spiritual Institutions of the Gospel as altogether insufficient for the Accomplishment of the Ends whereunto they are designed forgeting that they respect only the Consciences of men and are his Institutions who is the Lord of their Consciences and who will give them power and efficacy to attain their Ends when administred in his name and according to his mind and that because they are His would prove the necessity of Temporal coercions and penalties in things Spiritual from the Extraordinary Effects of Excommunication in the primitive times in the Vexation and punishment of persons Excommunicate by the Devil This work the Devil now ceasing to attend unto he would have the Magistrate to take upon him to supply his place and Office by punishments of his own Appointment and Infliction and so at last to be sure of giving him full measure he hath ascribed two Extreams unto him about Religion namely to act the part of God and the Devil But as this Inference is built upon a very uncertain conjecture namely that upon the giving up of persons to Satan in Excommunication there did any visible or Corporal Vexation of them by his power ensue or any other effects but what may yet be justly expected from an Influence of his Terrour on the minds of men who are duly and regularly cast out of the visible Kingdom of Christ by that censure and whereas if there be any truth in it it was confined unto the dayes of the Apostles and is to be reckoned amongst the miraculous Operations granted to them for the first confirmation of the Gospel and the continuance of it all the time the Church wanted the Assistance of the Civil Magistrate is most unduly pretended without any colour of Proof or Instance beyond such as may be evidenced to continue at this day supposing it to be true the Inference made from it as to its consequence on this concession is exceeding weak and feeble For the Argument here amounteth to no more but this God was pleased in the dayes of the Apostles to confirm their Spiritual Censures against Stuborn Sinners Apostates Blasphemers and such like hainous Offenders with extraordinary spiritual Punishments so in their own nature or in the manner or way of their Infliction therefore the Civil Magistrate hath power to appoint things to be observed in the Worship of God and forbid other things which the Light and Consciences of men directed by the Word of God require the observation of upon ordinary standing corporal penalties to be inflicted on the outward man quod erat demonstrandum To wind up this Debate I shall commit the Vmpirage of it to the Church of England and receive her Determination in the words of one who may be supposed to know her sense and Judgement as well as any one who lived in his dayes or since And this is Doctor Bilson Bishop of Winchester a Learned man skilled in the Laws of the Land and a great Adversary unto all that dissented from Church Constitutions This man therefore treating by way of Dialogue in answer to the Jesuites Apologie and Defence in the Third Part p. 293. thus introduceth Theophilus a Protestant Divine arguing with Philander a Jesuite about these matters Theoph. As for the Supream Head of the Church it is certain that Title was first transferred from the Pope to King Henry the eighth by the Bishops of your side not of ours And though the Pastors in King Edwards time might not well dislike much less disswade the style of the Crown by Reason the King was under years and so remained until he dyed yet as soon as it pleased God to place her Majesty in her Fathers Throne the Nobles and Preachers perceiving the words Head of the Church which is Christs proper and peculiar honor to be offensive unto many that had vehemently refelled the same in the Pope besought her Highness the meaning of that word which her Father had used might be expressed in some plainer and apter terms And so was the Prince called Supream Governour of the Realm that is Ruler and Bearer of the Sword with lawful Authority to command and punish answerable to the Word of God in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or Causes as well as in Temporal And no Forreign Prince or Prelate to have any Jurisdiction Superiority Preheminence or Authority to establish prohibit correct and chastise with Publick Laws or Temporal Fains any Crimes or Causes Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within her Realm Philand Calvin saith this is Sacriledge and Blasphemy Look you therefore with what Consciences you take that Oath which your own Master so mightily detesteth Theoph. Nay look you with what faces you alledge Calvin who maketh that style to be sacrilegious and blassphemous as well in the Pope as in the Prince reason therefore you receive or refuse his Judgement in both If it derogate from Christ in the Prince so it doth in the Pope Yet we grant the sense of the word Supream as Calvin perceived it by Stephen Gardiners Answer and behaviour is very blasphemous and injurious to Christ and his Word whether it be Prince or Pope that so shall use it What this sense is he declares in the words of Calvin which are as followeth in his Translation of them That Jugler which after was Chancelor I mean the Bishop of Winchester when he was at Rentzburge neither would