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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 Lord Jesus Christ, the head of his Church, is the [Greek or Hebrew], the first proper subject of the sovereign power of the keys. He hath the key of David: He openeth, and no man shutteth; He shutteth, and ⟨p. 30⟩no man openeth, Revel. 3.7. The government is upon his shoulder, Isa. 9.6. And himself declareth the same to his Apostles, as the ground of his granting to them Apostolical power. All power (saith he) is given to me in heaven and earth, Matth. 28.18. Go ye therefore, &c.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the head of his Church, is the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the first proper subiect of the soveraigne power of the keyes. He hath the key of David: He openeth, and no man shutteth; He shutteth, and ⟨p. 30⟩no man openeth, Revel. 3.7. The government is upon his shoulder, Isa. 9.6. And himself declareth the same to his Apostles, as the ground of his granting to them Apostolicall power. All power (saith he) is given to me in heaven and earth, Matth. 28.18. Go ye therefore, &c.
Hence 1. All legislative power (power of making of Laws) in the Church is in him, and not from him derived to any other. Jam. 4.12.