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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.
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.
2. The people by their acts of liberty, as in election of officers, and concurrency in censure of offenders, and in the Determination and Promulgation of Synodal acts; they have a great stroke or power in the ordering of Church affairs, which may be called [Greek or Hebrew], or potestas, a POWER, which many times goeth under the name of rule or authority, but in proper speech it is rather a privilege or liberty then authority, as hath been opened above in Chap. 3. For no act of the peoples power or liberty doth properly bind, unless the authority of the Presbytery concur with it.
2. The people by their acts of liberty, as in election of officers, and concurrency in censure of offenders, and in the Determination and Promulgation of Synodall acts; they have a great stroke or power in the ordering of Church affairs, which may be called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or potestas, a POWER, which many times goeth under the name of rule or authoritie, but in proper speech it is rather a priviledge or liberty then authoritie, as hath been opened above in Chap. 3. For no act of the peoples power or liberty doth properly bind, unlesse the authoritie of the Presbytery concur with it.