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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85746	Of the authority of the highest powers about sacred things. Or, The right of the state in the Church. Wherein are contained many judicious discourses, pertinent to our times, and of speciall use for the order and peace of all Christian churches. / Put into English by C.B. M.A. The method of every chapter is added in the margent, and collected at the end.; De imperio summarum potestarum circa sacra. English.	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687, translator.	1651 (1651)	Wing G2117; Thomason E1244_1; ESTC R202244	156,216	365

preme or of some other originall these later ordinary as that perpetuall and primitive Government of the Father over his family whence ariseth the authority of the. Pedagogue and Tutour extraordinary such as God gave by speciall Commission to some men under the old Testament The Powers derived from the Supreme either have received a right both to oblige and to act as the Praetorship or to oblige only as the Power of a Delegate Without a right to oblige there is no Power for this is as it were the naturall effect thereof Let us now apply all this unto Pastors and Churches The Apostles are forbid by Christ the Presbyters or Pastors by the Apostle to rule as Lords over Gods heritage the word is applyed to Kings Lu. 22.23 and that is not only forbid but to exercise authority which as distinct from the other is given to Great ones Mat. 20.25 Mar. 1.42 By the name of Great ones are understood such Princes as the Ethnarchs of the Jewes which were stiled Euergetae as we may see in Josephus whence that of Luke may receive some light They that exercise Authority over them are called Euergetae benefactors If therefore such right as the Highest Powers have and such as the Inferiour Powers have be denyed Pastors it followes that all Power is denyed them Christ himfelf respecting his state of a servant denies his kingdome to be of this world denyes which is lesser that he was made a judge And unto the same state he called his Apostles We have not saith Chrysostom such power given us that by authority of sentence we can restrain men from offences And saith Bernard I read that the Apostles stood to be judged I find not that they sate in judgement Pastors are call'd in Scripture by the name of Embassadours Messengers Preachers whose part it is to declare the Authority of another not to oblige men by their own Their Commission is to speak what they have heard to deliver what they have received and no more The Apostle himself concerning Virgins because he had no commandement from the Lord dares command nothing only he gives Counsell withall declaring ●would be no sin in her that should do otherwise and admonishing the Corinthians to help those of Jerusalem by some extraordinary largesse he addes not of neceßity the reason whereof went before I speak not by command The Government therefore which is given to Pastors when they are said to guide to rule to feed to be set over the Church ought to be referred to the declarative kind or to that which meerly consisteth in persuasion Where the Apostles or Pastors are read to have commanded it is to be interpreted by that figure by which they are said to remit and retain sins that is to declare them remitted or retained Nor is that to be taken otherwise when God saith he set Jeremy to destroy kingdomes that is to pronounce the destruction of them So also in those Letters of the Elders and Brethren to the Churches of Sytia and Cilicia these words to impose a burthen are to be expounded in like sort for there is no new burthen imposed upon the Christians then it would follow that fornication the avoyding whereof is a part of that burthen was lawfull before this decree but the duty of Christians is declar'd out of the divine Law which would have free actions directed to the furtherance of other mens salvations and all offences carefully avoided That the Church hath no Commanding Power by Divine right appears because the Sword is the instrument of that power by the Sword is meant coërcive force but the armes of the Church are not carnall neither hath She received any Sword from God but the spirituall that is the word of God Besides Her conversation is not in Farth but in heaven she lives on earth as a stranger not as free and strangers have no right to command Yet since the Church is a company not permitted only but instituted by Divine Law I speak of the Church visible it follows that all those things which do naturally agree to lawfull Companies doe agree to the Church also so farre as they are prov'd not taken away Among those things is the Constitutive Government which we called by consent Wee will bring two examples The law of the Sabbath being abrogated 't was at the Christians pleasure keeping a just proportion to set apart what part of time they would for the worship of God Now because that worship according to the precept of Christ requir'd a certain Congregation of godly men that part of time could not be determin'd but by corsent So the Apostles leading the way and the Church following was dedicated to holy Assemblies the first day of the week which also in memory of the Resurrection is called the Lords day Again the Apostles being themselves not at leasure to oversee the poor the Church by their persuasion Instituted the office of Deacons and made election of persons to persons to performe it In both places wee find somewhat defined and constituted by consent which without great fault none could gainsay For it was requisite that somewhat should be constituted and that could not be one or two dissenting unlesse either the minor part should give place to the major or the major to the minor This being unreasonable that was necessary This right of Constitution therefore to the Church is naturall But the Imperative Government we have shewed above not to follow from the nature of the Church and yet that hindereth not but that both the Highest and the Inferiour Authority may agree unto it The Highest if the faithfull unmixed with others and free from all subjection make up a Common-wealth of themselves This seemeth to have happened to the Jewes in the times of the Maccabees the Church had then the Highest Authority yet not properly as a faithfull people but as a free people An Inferiour Authority and liberty to use their own Law the same Jewes not only in their own Land but at Alemandria and else-where have often had with some kind of coactive Power sometimes of more sometimes of lesse extent as it pleased the Supreme Governours under whom they lived But as for the Ministers of holy things we have sufficiently shewed that no commanding Authority agrees to them by Divine right that is flowing from the Institution or nature of the Ministry it self as also 〈◊〉 the Highest Authority is incompatible ●ith snch a Ministry Neverthelesse that Inferiour Authority ought alwayes to be separated from the Pastorall office the antient Church never believed Whatsoever we have given to Pastors derogates nothing from the Authority of the Highest Powers over Sacred things for the Directive regiment consisting in the giving of counsell and declaring of the divine command is quite of another kind And 't is no marvell if the same person do govern and is