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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.
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. Isa. 33.22. The power derived to others, is only to publish and execute his Laws and Ordinances, and to see them observed. Mat. 28.20. His Laws are perfect, Psal. 19.9. and do make the man of God perfect to every good work. 2 Tim. 3.17. and need no addition.
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. Isa. 33.22. The power derived to others, is onely to publish and execute his Laws and Ordinances, and to see them observed. Mat. 28.20. His Laws are perfect, Psal. 19.9. and do make the man of God perfect to every good work. 2 Tim. 3.17. and need no addition.
2. From his sovereign power it proceedeth, that he only can erect and ordain a true constitution of a Church-estate, Hebr. 3.3. to 6. He buildeth his own house, and setteth the pattern of it, as God gave to David the pattern of Solomons Temple,