The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…

II. Now that it is certain that God hath committed to Pastors, such a Government of his Church by the Word, as to stated commissioned Officers, because I have past by the proofs in my following Propositions, I will add some here. Supposing what Dr. Hammond hath said of the Power of the Keys, and that no man with common sense can take the Power of the Keys, for any thing less than a power of Church Government, or Authoritative Guidance, and so a Power of receiving in and putting out as there is cause; It is plain in that Christ first reciteth his own Commission and Power, Matth. 28. 18, 19, 20. and thence dateth the Commission of his Apostles, as it was to endure to the end of the age or world.

II. Now that it is certain that God hath committed to Pastors, such a Government of his Church by the Word, as to stated commissioned Officers, because I have past by the proofs in my following Propositions, I will add some here. Supposing what Dr. Hammond hath said of the Power of the Keyes, and that no man with common sense can take the Power of the Keyes, for any thing less than a power of Church Government, or Authoritative Guidance, and so a Power of receiving in and putting out as there is cause; It is plain in that Christ first reciteth his own Commission and Power, Matth. 28. 18, 19, 20. and thence dateth the Commission of his Apostles, as it was to endure to the end of the age or world.

See Isa 22. 22. & Rev. 3. 7. & 1. 18. compared with Matth. 16. 19. & John 20. 23. The word Presbyter and Bishop can signify no less: as Acts 4. 8