A02990:299
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulness of a stinted liturgy and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys: tending to satisfy the doubtful, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640
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The keys of the kingdom of heaven were promised and given to Peter as to a faithful man,1 and so to all the faithful,2 or to the community of the faithful. By the keys is meant the Gospel of Christ, opening a way by him and his merits as the door into the kingdom: and we must take heed of this deep delusion of Antichrist,3 in imagining that this power of binding or loosing sins is held to any office or order in the church. Whereupon it followeth necessarily, that one faithful man,4 yea or woman either, may as truly and effectually loose or bind both in heaven and earth as all the ministers in the world.
The keyes of the kingdome of heaven were promised and given to Peter as to a faithfull man,1 and so to all the faithfull,2 or to the communitie of the faithfull. By the keyes is meant the Gospel of Christ, opening a way by him and his merits as the doore into the kingdome: and we must take heed of this deep delusion of Antichrist,3 in imagining that this power of binding or loosing sinnes is held to any office or order in the church. Whereupon it followeth necessarily, that one faithfull man,4 yea or woman either, may as truly and effectually loose or bind both in heaven and earth as all the ministers in the world.
- 1Object. 2.
- 2Matth. 16. 17.
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