6. The policie of the kirk, flowing fra this power, is ane ordour or forme of spirituall gouernament, quhilk is exercit be the memberis appointit thairto be the word of God: And thairfoir is gevine immediatlie to the office-beirars, be quhome it is exercit to the weill of the haill bodie.
7. This power is diverslie vsit: For sumtymis it is seuerallie exercit, (chieflie be the teacheris,) sumtyme coniunctlie be mutuall consent of thame that bear the office and charge, efter the forme of iugement. The former is commonlie callit potestas ordinis, and the vther potestas jurisdictionis.
8. These two kyndis of power have bayth ane authoritie, ane ground, ane finall caus, bot ar different in the maner and forme of executioun, as is evident of the speiking of our Master in the 16 and 18 of Mathow.
9. This power and policie ecclesiasticall is different and distinct in the awin nature fra that power and policie quhilk is callit the ciuille power, and appertenit to the ciuille gouernament of the commoun welth: Albeit thay be bayth of God, and tend to ane end, gif thay be richtlie usit, to wit, to aduance the glorie of God, and to haue godlie and guid subiectis.
10. For this power ecclesiasticall, flowis immediatlie frome God, and the Mediator Chryst Jesus, and is spirituall, not having ane temporall heid on eirth, bot onlie Chryst, the onlie spirituall King and Gouernour of his kirk.
11. Thairfoir this power and policie of the kirk, sould lene upone the word of God immediatlie, as the onlie ground tharof, and sould be tane frome the pure fountanis of the Scripturis, heiring the voce of Chryst, the onlie spirituall King, and being rewlit be his lawis.
12. It is ane title falslie usurpit be Antichrist, to call himself heid of the kirk, and aucht not to be attributit to angell or to mane, of what estait soeuir he be, saiffing to Chryst, the Heid and onlie Monarche in this kirk.
13. It is proper to kingis, princes, and magistrats to be callit Lordis, and dominators ouer thair subiectis, quhom thay gouverne civillie, bot it is proper to Chryst onlie, to be callit Lord and Maister, in the spirituall gouernament of the kirk, and all uthers that beris office thairin aucht not to usurp dominion therein, be callit Lordis, bot onlie ministeris, disciplis, and servandis; For it is Chrystis proper office to command and reull his kirk universall, and euery particular kirk, throw his Spirit and word, be the ministrie of mene.
14. Notwithstanding, as the ministeris and vtheris of the ecclesiasticall estait, ar subiect to the magistrat ciuillie, swa aucht the persone of the magistrat, be subiect to the kirk spirituallie, and in ecclesiasticall gouernament.
15. And the exercise of bayth thais jurisdictionis can not stande in ane persone, ordinarlie.