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He adds, for proof of that which he saith, the example of Hezekiah in breaking down that brazen serpent; which example doth indeed most pregnantly enforce the abolishing of all things or rites notoriously abused to idolatry when they are not of any necessary use, but it warranteth not the abolishing of anything which has a necessary use, because the brazen serpent is not contained in the number of those things, quibus carere non possumus, saith Wolphius, answering to the same objection which presently I have in hand.
Wolphius observeth of king Joash, that he did not by himself take order for the reparation of the temple, nor define what was to be done unto every breach therein, but committed this matter to be directed and cared for by the priests, whom it chiefly concerned, commanding them to take course for the reparation of the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach should be found, and allowing them money for the work.
Here is a synodical censure, which I find also in Wolphius, a professor of Zurich, and the book before cited, cap. 24, tells us of some corrective power committed to pastors and elders, which elders are distinguished from the magistrates. 3.
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