A34675:117
A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self contradiction, charged on…A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on…
A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey written by himself not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cawdrey about the nature of schism, by John Owen ...A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by H. Hall for T. Robinson, 1658
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.
But the keys were given to Peter as an Apostle, Therefore they were given only to the Apostles, and not to the Believers as such.
But the keyes were given to Peter as an Apostle, Therefore they were given only to the Apostles, and not to the Believers as such.
But here the Assumption is Palpably false, not at all delivered by me, but dragged out of my words against the letter and against the sense of them. I say the keys were not given to Peter as an Apostle only: why then not to him as an Apostle, but as He is jointly considered with other Officers and Brethren. When therefore ⟨p. 15⟩he Appealeth to the Judgment of any Logician, whether to say Peter Received the keys not as an Apostle only, but an Elder also, and a Believer, be not as much as to say, Peter had the Power of the keys given Him, as an Apostle, as an Elder, and as a Believer: Verily if that were the Judgment of all Logicians I should conclude, either that Logic had forsaken the world, or at least that my self were forsaken of Logic.
But here the Assumption is Palpably false, not at all delivered by me, but dragged out of my words against the letter and against the sence of them. I say the keyes were not given to Peter as an Apostle only: why then not to him as an Apostle, but as He is joyntly considered with other Officers and Brethren. When therefore ⟨p. 15⟩he Appealeth to the Judgment of any Logician, whether to say Peter Received the keyes not as an Apostle only, but an Elder also, and a Believer, be not as much as to say, Peter had the Power of the keyes given Him, as an Apostle, as an Elder, and as a Believer: Verily if that were the Judgment of all Logicians I should conclude, either that Logick had forsaken the world, or at least that my selfe were forsaken of Logick.