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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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Obj. 3. The whole body natural, is the first subject of all the natural power of any member in the body; as the faculty of sight is first in the body, before in the eye.
Obj. 3. The whole body naturall, is the first subject of all the naturall power of any member in the body; as the facultie of sight is first in the body, before in the eye.
Answ. It is not in the mystical body (the Church) in all respects alike, as in the natural body. In the natural body there be all the ⟨p. 36⟩faculties of each part actually inexistent, though not exerting or putting forth themselves, till each member be articulated and formed. But in the body of the Church of Brethren it is not so. All the several functions of Church power, are not actually inexistent in the body of Brethren, unless some of them have the gifts of all the officers, which often they have not, having neither Presbyters, nor men fit to be Presbyters. Now if the power of the Presbytery were given to a particular Church of Brethren, as such, primo & per se, then it would be found in every particular Church of Brethren. For a Quatenus adomnia valet consequentia.
Answ. It is not in the mysticall body (the Church) in all respects alike, as in the naturall body. In the naturall body there be all the ⟨p. 36⟩faculties of each part actually inexistent, though not exerting or putting forth themselves, till each member be articulated and formed. But in the body of the Church of Brethren it is not so. All the severall functions of Church power, are not actually inexistent in the body of Brethren, unlesse some of them have the gifts of all the officers, which often they have not, having neither Presbyters, nor men fit to be Presbyters. Now if the power of the Presbytery were given to a particular Church of Brethren, as such, primo & per se, then it would be found in every particular Church of Brethren. For a Quatenus adomnia valet consequentia.