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…

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.

2. By way of Recommendation; Letters are sent from one Church to another, recommending to their watchfulness and communion, any of their members, who by occasion of business, are for a time to reside amongst them. As Paul sent Letters of Recommendation to the Church of Rome, in the behalf of Phoebe, a Deaconess of the Church at Cenchrea, Rom. 16.1, 2. And of these kind of Letters he speaketh to the Church of Corinth also, though not as needful to himself (who was well known to them) yet for others, 2 Cor. 3.1.

2. By way of Recommendation; Letters are sent from one Church to another, recommending to their watchfulnesse and communion, any of their members, who by occasion of businesse, are for a time to reside amongst them. As Paul sent Letters of Recommendation to the Church of Rome, in the behalfe of Phoebe, a Deaconesse of the Church at Cenchrea,