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1 1| marks of men striving for power and empire over one another 2 1| concernments, and that all civil power, right and dominion, is 3 1| religion. Nor can any such power be vested in the magistrate 4 1| another. All the life and power of true religion consist 5 1| magistrate, because his power consists only in outward 6 1| with penalties. This civil power alone has a right to do; 7 1| affirm that the magistrate’s power extends not to the establishing 8 1| to conclude that all the power of civil government relates 9 1| we consider what is the power of this church and unto 10 1| destitute of all compulsive power? I answer: They must be 11 1| It neither requires the power of the sword by the magistrate’ 12 1| spontaneous society—that it has power to remove any of its members 13 1| these churches hath this power of treating the other ill, 14 1| them it is to whom that power belongs, and by what right? 15 1| Christian kingdom. The civil power is the same in every place. 16 1| every place. Nor can that power, in the hands of a Christian 17 1| Where they have not the power to carry on persecution 18 1| strengthened with the civil power, then they can bear most 19 1| into the original of the power or dignity of the clergy. 20 1| superior unto other men in power, but in nature equal. Neither 21 1| not in the magistrate’s power to repair my loss, to ease 22 1| new strength to the civil power. Though this also must be 23 1| that the magistrate has no power to enforce by law, either 24 1| magistrate all manner of power about indifferent things, 25 1| subjected to the legislative power. But it does not therefore 26 1| propitiate the Deity, no human power or authority can confer 27 1| human authority or civil power could have done this, why 28 1| soever they be under the power of the civil magistrate, 29 1| Churches themselves have the power of ordering anything about 30 1| As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the 31 1| Church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such 32 1| magistrate?” I answer: What power can be given to the magistrate 33 1| remembered that the civil power is the same everywhere, 34 1| himself. If, therefore, such a power be granted unto the civil 35 1| the Christian. The civil power can either change everything 36 1| that Church by the civil power. But there is absolutely 37 1| laws which are not in men’s power to perform. And to believe 38 1| pernicious citizen. The power of the magistrate and the 39 1| much assistance from the power of great men, to whom she 40 1| legislative (which is the supreme) power in every commonwealth. I 41 1| what end the legislative power ought to be directed and 42 1| him, nor ever was in the power of the people to grant, 43 1| business to inquire into the power of the magistrate in the 44 1| arrogate unto themselves the power of deposing kings, because 45 1| because they challenge the power of excommunication, as the 46 1| any peculiar privilege or power above other mortals, in 47 1| person, who has not only power to persuade the members 48 1| civil, nor any manner of power of compulsion, nor anything 49 1| whereby to increase their own power. For who does not see that