A34674:518
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
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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.
Arguments proving the Ministerial Power of Calling Synods (which may be fitly called a power of liberty, because Churches therein have no Authority one over another) to belong unto the particular Churches.
Arguments proving the Ministeriall Power of Calling Synods (which may be fitly called a power of liberty, because Churches therein have no Authority one over another) to belong unto the particular Churches.
1 From that famous example, Acts 15. where the Synod meets, and site, without the call of Civil Authority; there being then no Christian Magistrate.
2 Because the power of the constitution of Synods, as properly such, firstly resideth with, ariseth from, and lastly returneth to particular Churches.
3 Because the power of the Magistrate tends not to the being, but to the better being of Synods; and added thereunto is accumulative, not privative (i. e.) it adds strength to it, but takes not any power from it: Hence a Synod may in ease be without ⟨p. 70⟩