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1 1| has ever given any such authority to one man over another 2 1| to the other, goodwill is authority enough. Every man has commission 3 1| or presbyter, with ruling authority derived from the very apostles, 4 1| as if they were of Divine authority, and to establish by ecclesiastical 5 1| force of ecclesiastical authority. No other punishment can 6 1| church which has the right of authority over the erroneous or heretical. 7 1| infidel, who has himself no authority to punish Christians for 8 1| faith, cannot confer such an authority upon any society of Christians, 9 1| prince, confer any greater authority upon the Church than in 10 1| that, whencesoever their authority be sprung, since it is ecclesiastical, 11 1| call in the magistrate’s authority to the aid of their eloquence 12 1| and he provides by his authority that nobody shall either 13 1| nothing in religion but by the authority and counsel of the doctors 14 1| or by the ecclesiastical authority and advice of others. The 15 1| indifferent cannot, by any human authority, be made any part of the 16 1| Deity, no human power or authority can confer on them so much 17 1| therefore in those things human authority has place. But it is not 18 1| built upon the magistrate’s authority, might not (against conscience) 19 1| institution? If any human authority or civil power could have 20 1| worship, without divine authority, they are as abominable 21 1| that he do not misuse his authority to the oppression of any 22 1| unto those that urge the authority of the law of Moses for 23 1| the supreme and absolute authority of judging for himself. 24 1| should enjoin anything by his authority that appears unlawful to 25 1| verge of the magistrate’s authority (as, for example, that the 26 1| challenge any manner of authority over such as are not associated 27 1| subject to the absolute authority of the same person, who 28 1| they like? Ecclesiastical authority, whether it be administered 29 1| dominion of princes and men in authority, they endeavour with all 30 2| that are separated, nor the authority of the magistrate, that 31 2| to his own fancy with the authority of Scripture. I know there