And that governor must be one; or else there must needs follow faction and civil war in the commonwealth between the “Church” and “State”; between “spiritualists” and “temporalists”; between the “sword of justice,” and the “shield of faith”: and, which is more, in every Christian man’s own breast, between the “Christian” and the “man.” The doctors of the Church are called pastors; so also are civil sovereigns. But if pastors be not subordinate one to another, so as that there may be one chief pastor, men will be taught contrary doctrines, whereof both may be, and one must be false. Who that one chief pastor is, according to the law of Nature, hath been already shown; namely, that it is the civil sovereign; and to whom the Scripture hath assigned that office we shall see in the chapters following.
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