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The doctrine of the church to which is committed the keys of the kingdom…The doctrine of the church to which is committed the keys of the kingdome…
The doctrine of the church to which is committed the keys of the kingdom of heaven wherein is demonstrated by way of question and answer what a visible church is, according to the order of the Gospel, and what officers, members, worship, and government Christ hath ordained in the New Testament / by that Reverend and learned Divine Mr. Jo. Cotton ...The doctrine of the church to which is committed the keys of the kingdome of heaven wherein is demonstrated by way of question and answer what a visible church is, according to the order of the Gospel, and what officers, members, worship, and government Christ hath ordained in the New Testament / by that Reverend and learned Divine Mr. Jo. Cotton ...
London: printed for Ben. Allen, 1644
THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH, And its GOVERNMENT.THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHVRCH, And its GOVERNMENT.
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.
40. Qu. Having seen what power of Government the Church hath received and exercised within it self: tell me now whether any Church hath power of government over another?
40. Qu. Having seene what power of Governement the Church hath received and exercised within it selfe: tell mee now whether any Church hath power of governement over another?
Ans. No Church hath power of Government over another, but each of them hath chief power within it self, and all of them equal power one with another; every Church hath received alike the power of binding, and loosing, opening and shutting the Kingdom of heavena. But one to another, all of them are Sistersb, all of them Concubinesc, but by their own corruption or usurpation of othersd: finally all of them are Candlesticks of the same precious metal, and in the midst of them all Christ equally walkethe.
Ans. No Church hath power of Governement over another, but each of them hath chiefe power within it selfe, and all of them equall power one with another; every Church hath received alike the power of binding, and loosing, opening and shutting the Kingdome of heavena. But one to another, all of them are Sistersb, all of them Concubinesc