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The power of Congregational churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of…
The power of Congregational churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. J. Paget entitled The defence of church-government exercised in classes and synods / by John Davenport.The power of Congregational churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. J. Paget intituled The defence of church-government exercised in classes and synods / by John Davenport.
London: printed for Rich. Chiswell and to be sold by John Usher of Boston, 1672
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.
The second branch or part of the Charter, is, concerning the Power given by Christ unto such Churches, to have and use all the means appointed by him for their establishment against the the gates of Hell, Mat. 16.19. And I will give unto thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth, shall be bound in Heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth, shall be loosed in Heaven. These words contain, 1. A grant of Power. 2. A ratification of that Grant. We shall speak to them distinctly. 1. To Christ his grant of Power; and therein, 1. Explicate the terms, by showing, what is meant, 1 by the Kingdom of Heaven; 2. by the Keys of it. 3 What this appropriation, ⟨p. 74⟩or application of them imports, To thee I will give.
THe second branch or part of the Charter, is, concerning the Power given by Christ unto such Churches, to have and use all the means appointed by him for their establishment against the the gates of Hell, Mat. 16.19. And I will give unto thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth, shall be bound in Heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth, shall be loosed in Heaven. These words contain, 1. A grant of Power. 2. A ratification of that Grant. We shall speak to them distinctly. 1. To Christ his grant of Power; and therein, 1. Explicate the terms, by shewing, what is meant, 1 by the Kingdom of Heaven; 2. by the Keys of it. 3 What this appropriation, ⟨p. 74⟩or application of them imports, To thee I will give.
1. By the Kingdom of Heaven] is meant, both the Kingdom of Grace & Glory; and that the Kingdom of Glory is also meant, the following words show, when he saith, What you bind on Earth, is bound in Heaven, &c. 2. By the Keys (which are a sign of Power, and are put, by a Metonymy, for the Subject, the Power it self) is meant, Church-power; which is either Supreme, and Sovereign, in Christ only, as Lord and Head of his Church, who alone hath the Key of David, which openeth, and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth; in