When they had hanged two or three, the rope broke which should have hanged the next.

And they sent for new ropes so oft to hang him, and all of them still broke, that they durst go no further, but saved all the rest.
The soldiers, doubtless, contrived this from the aversion natural to Englishmen of killing an enemy in cold blood; and because they foresaw that there would be Tit for Tat.
Ib.p.

59.
It is easy to see from Baxter's own account, that his party ruined their own cause and that of the kingdom by their tenets concerning the right and duty of the civil magistrate to use the sword against such as were not of the same religion with themselves.
Ib.p.

62.
They seem not to me to have answered satisfactorily to the main argument fetched from the Apostle's own government, with which Saravia had inclined me to some Episcopacy before: though miracles and infallibility were Apostolical temporary privileges, yet Church government is an ordinary thing to be continued.

And therefore as the Apostles had successors as they were preachers, I see not but that they must have successors as Church governors.
Was not Peter's sentence against Ananias an act of Church government?
Therefore though Church government is an ordinary thing in some form or other, it does not follow that one particular form is an ordinary thing.
For the time being the Apostles, as heads of the Church, did what they thought best; but whatever was binding on the Church universal and in all times they delivered as commands from Christ.