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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.
Obj. 4. But it is an usual tenet in many of our best Divines, that the government of the Church is mixed of a Monarchy, an Aristocracy, and a Democracy. In regard of Christ the head, the government of the Church is sovereign and monarchical. In regard of the Rule by the Presbytery, it is stewardly and Aristocratical: in regard of the peoples power in elections and censures, it is Democratical: which argueth, the people have some stock of [Greek or Hebrew], power and authority in the government of the Church.
Obj. 4. But it is an usuall tenent in many of our best Divines, that the government of the Church is mixt of a Monarchy, an Aristocracie, and a Democracy. In regard of Christ the head, the government of the Church is soveraigne and monarchicall. In regard of the Rule by the Presbytery, it is stewardly and Aristocraticall: in regard of the peoples power in elections and censures, it is Democraticall: which argueth, the people have some stock of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, power and authority in the government of the Church.
Answ. In a large sense, Authority after a sort, may be acknowledged in the people. As 1. when a man acteth by counsel according to his own discerning freely, he is then said to be [Greek or Hebrew], Dominus sui actus. So the people in all the acts of liberty which they put forth are Domini sui actus, Lords of their own action.
Answ. In a large sense, Authority after a sort, may be acknowledged in the people. As 1. when a man acteth by counsell according to his own discerning freely, he is then said to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Dominus sui actus. So the people in all the acts of liberty which they put forth are Domini sui actus, Lords of their own action.