ABSTRACT
1. The question propounded, who are the magistrates in the kingdom of Christ. 2. The question exemplified, in the controversies between Moses and Aaron, and between Moses and Corah. 3. Amongst the Jews, the power temporal and spiritual in the same hand. 4. Parallel of the twelve princes of Israel, and the twelve apostles. 5. Parallel of seventy elders, and seventy disciples. 6. The hierarchy of the church in our Saviour’s time, consisted in the twelve, and the seventy. 7. Why Christ ordained no priests for sacrifice, as Moses did. 8. The hierarchy of the church in the apostles’ time. Apostles, bishops, and priests. 9. The preaching of the gospel was not commanding, but persuasion. 10. Excommunication. Sovereigns immediate rulers ecclesiastical under Christ, 11. That no man hath any just pretence of religion, against obedience to commonwealth. God speaketh to man by his vicegerents.
