What is "ecclesiasticall"

Usage examples of "ecclesiasticall".

So that it is manifest hereby, in whom the Power Ecclesiasticall continually remained, in those first times, where there was not any Christian Commonwealth.

In summe, he hath the Supreme Power in all causes, as well Ecclesiasticall, as Civill, as far as concerneth actions, and words, for those only are known, and may be accused.

Therefore this place maketh most strongly for the joining of the Ecclesiasticall Supremacy to the Civill Soveraignty, contrary to that which Cardinall Bellarmine alledgeth it for.

To which I answer, first, that there are no Ecclesiasticall Princes but those that are also Civill Soveraignes.

If he be not a Priest, then the Pope pretendeth this Authority Ecclesiasticall over him, and over his people.

But whether hee intend thereby, to entitle the Presbytery to the Supreme Power Ecclesiasticall in the Commonwealth of Geneva, (and consequently to every Presbytery in every other Commonwealth,) or to Princes, and other Civill Soveraigns, I doe not know.

And for the Power Ecclesiasticall of the same Soveraigns, I ground it on such Texts, as are both evident in themselves, and consonant to the Scope of the whole Scripture.

Therefore the Civill and Ecclesiasticall Power were both joined together in one and the same person, the High Priest.

Neverthelesse, men that have in their Writings but supposed such Doctrine, as an occasion to lay open the reasons for, and against it, have been punished for it by Authority Ecclesiasticall.