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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.
2. The commandment is directed to them all, when they are gathered together, (and what is that but to a Church meeting?) to proceed against him. 1 Cor. 5.4. In like sort, in the end of the Chapter he commandeth them all, Put away therefore from among you that wicked person, v. 13.
2. The commandment is directed to them all, when they are gathered together, (and what is that but to a Church meeting?) to proceed against him. 1 Cor. 5.4. In like sort, in the end of the Chapter he commandeth them all, Put away therefore from among you that wieked person, v. 13.
3. He declareth this act of theirs in putting him out, to be a judicial act, v. 12. Do you not judge them that are within? Say that the judgement of authority be proper only to the Presbytery, yet the judgement of discretion (which as concurring in this act with the Presbytery hath a power in it (as was said) may not be denied to the Brethren: for here is an act of judgement ascribed to them all: which judgement in the Brethren he esteemeth of it so highly, that from thence he taketh occasion to advise the members of the Church, to refer their differences even in civill matters, to the judgement of the Saints or Brethren. Know ye not (saith he) that the Saints shall judge the world? yea the Angels? 1 Cor. 6.1, 2, 3. how much more the things of this life? Yea rather then they should go to Law, and that before Infidels, in any case depending between Brethren, he adviseth them rather to set up the meanest in the Church to hear and judge between them, 1 Cor. 6.4.
3. He declareth this act of theirs in putting him out, to be a judiciall act, v. 12. Do you not judge them that are within? Say that the judgement of authoritie be proper onely to the Presbytery, yet the judgement of discretion (which as concurring in this act with the Presbytery hath a power in it (as was said) may not be denyed to the Brethren: for here is an act of judgement ascribed to them all: which judgement in the Brethren he esteemeth of it so highly, that from thence he taketh occasion to advise the members of the Church, to refer their differences even in civill matters, to the judgement of the Saints or Brethren. Know ye not (saith he) that the Saints shall judge the world? yea the Angels?