Thirty-Nine Articles · Chapter 37
Of the Ciuill Magistrates
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2. Where we attribute to the Queenes Maiestie the cheefe gouernment, by whiche titles we vnderstande the mindes of some slaunderous folkes to be offended: we geue not to our princes the ministring either of Gods word, or of Sacraments, the which thing the Iniunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queene, doth most plainlie testifie: But that only prerogatiue whiche we see to haue ben geuen alwayes to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God him selfe, that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Temporall, and restraine with the ciuill sworde the stubberne and euyll doers.
Commentary
- Gilbert Burnet, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (1699), on 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 37.5
- Thomas Rogers, The Faith, Doctrine, and Religion, Professed, and Protected in the Realm of England, Expressed in Thirty-Nine Articles (1607), on 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 37.5
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