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The keys of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word…The keyes of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word…
The keys of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word of God / by Mr. John Cotton ...The keyes of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word of God / by Mr. Iohn Cotton ...
London: printed by M. Simmons for Henry Overton, 1644
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A seventh and last liberty of the Church, is, Liberty of communion with other Churches. Communion we say: for it is a great Liberty, that no particular Church standeth in subjection to another particular Church, no, not to a Cathedral Church: but that all the Churches enjoy mutual brotherly communion amongst themselves: which communion is mutually exercised amongst them seven ways, which for brevity and memory sake, we sum up in seven words. 1. By way of Participation. 2. Of Recommendation. 3. Of Consultation. 4. Of Congregation into a Synod. 5. Of Contribution. 6. Of Admonition. 7. Of Propagation or Multiplication of Churches.
A seventh and last libertie of the Church, is, Libertie of communion with other Churches. Communion we say: for it is a great Libertie, that no particular Church standeth in subjection to another particular Church, no, not to a Cathedrall Church: but that all the Churches enjoy mutuall brotherly communion amongst themselves: which communion is mutually exercised amongst them seven waies, which for brevitie and memory sake, we summe up in seven words. 1. By way of Participation. 2. Of Recommendation. 3. Of Consultation. 4. Of Congregation into a Synod. 5. Of Contribution. 6. Of Admonition. 7. Of Propagation or Multiplication of Churches.
1. By way of Participation, the members of one Church, occasionally coming to another Church, where the Lords Supper cometh to be administered, are willingly admitted to partake with them at the Lords Supper, in case that neither themselves, nor the Churches from whence they came, do lie under any public offence. For we receive the Lords Supper, not only as a Seal of our communion with the Lord Jesus, and with his members in our own Church, but also in all the Churches of the Saints.
1. By way of Participation, the members of one Church, occasionally comming to another Church, where the Lords Supper commeth to be administred, are willingly admitted to partake with them at the Lords Supper, in case that neither themselves, nor the Churches from whence they came, doe lie under any publique offence. For wee receive the Lords Supper, not onely as a Seale of our communion with the Lord Jesus, and with his members in our owne Church, but also in all the Churches of the Saints.