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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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Object. 6. The Church here to be complained of meeteth with authority, (for censures are administered with authority) but the church of a particular Congregation meeteth with humility, to seek the face and favour of God.
Object. 6. The Church here to be complained of meeteth with authority, (for censures are administred with authority) but the church of a particular Congregation meeteth with humility, to seek the face and favour of God.
Answ. Humility to God may well stand with authority to men. The 24. Elders (who represent the grown heirs of the Church of the new Testament) they are said in Church-assemblies to sit upon thrones with crowns on their heads, Rev. 4.4. yet when they fall down to worship God and the Lamb, they cast down their crowns at his feet, v. 10.
Answ. Humility to God may well stand with authority to men. The 24. Elders (who represent the growne heyres of the Church of the new Testament) they are said in Church-assemblies to sit upon thrones with crownes on their heads, Rev. 4.4. yet when they fall down to worship God and the Lamb, they cast down their crownes at his feet, v. 10.
Object. 7. In the church of a particular Congregation, a woman may not speak: but in this Church here spoken of, they may speak; for they may be offenders, and offenders must give an account of their offences.