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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From their indispensable and independent power in Church censures. The censure that is ratified in heaven cannot be dispensed withal, nor reversed by any power on earth. Now the censure that is administered by the Church of a particular congregation, is ratified in Heaven. For so saith the Lord Jesus touching the power of Church censures, Matth. 18 17, 18. If the offender refuse to hear the Church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a Publican. Verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth, shall be bound in Heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.

From their indispensable and independent power in Church censures. The censure that is ratified in heaven cannot be dispensed withall, nor reversed by any power on earth. Now the censure that is administred by the Church of a particular congregation, is ratified in Heaven. For so saith the Lord Iesus touching the power of Church censures, Matth. 18 17, 18. If the offender refuse to hear the Church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a Publican. Verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall bind onearth, shall be bound in Heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.

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Against this Argument from this Text many objections are wont to be made, but none that will hold.

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Object. 1. By Church in Mat. 18.17. is not meant the Christian Church (for it was not yet extant, nor could the Apostles then have understood Christ if he had so meant) but the Jewish church, and so he delivereth their censure, in a Jewish phrase; to account a man as an Heathen and a Publican.

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