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THE PRACTICE OF PRELATES

Prelates appointed to preach Christ may not leave God's word, and
minister temporal offices; but ought to teach the lay-people the
right way, and let them alone with all temporal business.

OUR Saviour Jesus Christ answered Pilate, that his kingdom
was not of this world. And ( Matthew, in the tenth,) he saith,
"The disciple is not greater than his master; but it ought to
suffice the disciple, that he be as the master is." Wherefore if
Christ's kingdom be not of this world, nor any of his disciples
may be otherwise than he was; then Christ's vicars, which
minister his kingdom here in his bodily absence, and have the
oversight of his flock, may be none emperors, kings, dukes,
lords, knights, temporal judges, or any temporal officer, or
under false names have any such dominion, or minister any
such office as requireth violence.

Matt. x.

The ministers
of Christ's
doctrine may
not have any
temporal
offices.

John xviii.

And, ( Matt. vi.) "No man can serve two masters:" where
Christ concludeth, saying, "Ye cannot serve God and mam-
mon;" that is, riches, covetousness, ambition, and temporal
dignities.

Matt. vi.

And ( Matt. xx.) Christ called his disciples unto him, and said:
Ye know that the lords of the heathen people have dominion
over them; and they that be great do exercise power over them.
Howbeit, it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will
be great among you shall be your minister; and he that will
be chief shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came
not that men should minister unto him, but for to minister and
give his life for the redemption of many." Wherefore the
officers in Christ's kingdom may have no temporal dominion
or jurisdiction, nor execute any temporal authority or law of
violence, nor may have any like manner among them: but
clean contrary, they must cast themselves down under all,
and become servants unto all, suffer of all, and bear the
burden of every man's infirmities, and go before them, and
fight for them against the world with the sword of God's
word, even unto the death, after the example of Christ.

The officers
in Christ's
kingdom
may have no
temporal
dominion.

Matt. xx.

And ( Matt. xviii.), when the disciples asked who should be
greatest in the kingdom of heaven, Christ "called a young child
unto him, and set him in the midst among them, saying, Except
ye turn back, and become as children, ye shall not enter in the

Matt. xviii.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures: Together with the Practice of Prelates. Contributors: William Tyndale - author, Henry Walter - editor. Publisher: University Press of America. Place of Publication: Cambridge. Publication Year: 1849. Page Number: 247.
    
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