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…

Name: The keys of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word…
Author: John Cotton

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 ...

John Cotton 1584–1652London: printed by M. Simmons for Henry Overton, 1644

[12], 59 p. · 31k words · Wing C6437

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Of the Keys of the Kingdom of HEAVEN, and the Power thereof; accor… › Chapter 7: Touching the first Subject of all the forementioned power of the Keys. And an explanat…Of the Keys of the Kingdome of HEAVEN, and the Power thereof; accor… › Chapter 7: Touching the first Subject of all the forementioned power of the Keyes. And an explanat…

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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, 1 Chron. 28.19. None hath power to erect any other Church-frame, then as this Master-builder hath left us a pattern thereof in the Gospel. In the old Testament the Church set up by him was National, in the New, Congregational; yet so as that in sundry cases it is ordered by him, many congregations or their messengers, may be assembled into a Synod. Act. 15.

2. From his soveraign power it proceedeth, that he onely 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, 1 Chron. 28.19. None hath power to erect any other Church-frame, then as this Master-builder hath left us a pattern thereof in the Gospel. In the old Testament the Church set up by him was Nationall, in the New, Congregationall; yet so as that in sundrie cases it is ordered by him, many congregations or their messengers, may be assembled into a Synod. Act. 15.

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3. It is from the same sovereign power, that all the offices, or ministries in the Church are ordained by him, 1 Cor. 12.5. yea and all the members are set in the body by him, together with all the power belonging to their offices and places: as in the natural body, so in the Church.

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