A34674:503
The Covenant of Grace
The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodadation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregationall churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.
London: printed by M.S. for Francis Eglesfield and John Allen, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3 Coactive or judicial (for we omit to speak in this place of Official judgement) in judging of the truth determined Authoritatively, so as to impose it with Authority, and to censure the disobedient with Ecclesiastical censure, 1 Cor. 5.12. Mat. 18.17. This belongeth to every particular Church.
The judgement of a Synod is in some respect superior, in some respect inferior to the judgement of a particular Church; it is superior in respect of direction; inferior in respect of jurisdiction, which it hath none.
The judgement of a Synod is in some respect superiour, in some respect inferiour to the judgement of a particular Church; it is superiour in respect of direction; inferiour in respect of jurisdiction, which it hath none.
Query. How, and how far doth the sentence of a Synod bind?
Quere. How, and how far doth the sentence of a Synod bind?