Library · The Thirty-Nine Articles
Article XXXVII. Of the Power of the Civil Magistrates
The Power of the Civil Magistrate extendeth to all men, as well Clergy as Laity, in all things temporal; but hath no authority in things purely spiritual. And, we hold it to be the duty of all men who are professors of the Gospel, to pay respectful obedience to the Civil Authority, regularly and legitimately constituted.
Text from Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, volume 3 (1877), at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Public domain.