A TREATISE O F CIVIL POWER IN ECCLESIASTICAL CAUSES: SHEWING THAT IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR ANY POWER ON EARTH TO COMPEL IN THE AUTHOR JOHN MILTON. FIRST PRINTED ANNO M.DC.LIX. LONDON: RE-PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH- YARD. MDCCXC. [ PRICE ONE-SHILLING. ] 4-27-43 R.C.S. English 47643 то ΤΗΕ REV. RICHARD PRICE, D.D. LL.D. F.R.S. FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL THIS MANUAL of John Milton is now most TO THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, WITH THE DOMINIONS THEREOF. I HAVE prepared, fupreme council, against the much expected time of your fitting, this treatise; which, though to all chriftian magiftrates equally belonging, and therefore to have been written in the common language of christendom, natural dutie and affection hath confined, and dedicated first to my own nation: and in a season wherein the timely reading thereof, to the easier accom. plishment of your great work, may fave you much labour and interruption: of two parts usually propofed, civil and ecclefiaftical, recommending civil only to your proper care, ecclefiaftical to them only from whom it takes both that namet and nature. Yet not for this caufe only do I require or trust to finde acceptance, but in a twofold respect besides: first, as bringing clear evidence of fcripture and proteftant maxims to the parliament of England, who in all their late acts, A 4 upon |