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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:232p. 46¶4

4. When the Apostle directeth them upon the repentance of an offender, to forgive him, 2 Cor. 2.4, to 10. he speaketh to the Brethren, as well as to their elders to forgive him. As they were all (the Brethren as well as the Elders) offended with his sin: so it was meet they should all a like be satisfied, and being satisfied should forgive him: the Brethren in a way of brotherly love and Church-consent, as well as the Elders, by sentencing his absolution and restitution to the Church.

:233p. 46¶3

3. Obj. But was not this Church of Corinth (who had all this power) a metropolis, a mother Church of Achaia, in which many Presbyteries, from many Churches in the villages were assembled to administer this censure?

:234p. 46–47

Ans. No such thing appeareth from the story of the Church of Corinth, neither in the Acts (Act. 18.) nor from either of the Epistles […] Corinthians. True it is, Corinth was a mother-city, but not a Mother-Church to all Achaia: and yet it is not unlikely that other Churches in that region, might borrow much light from their gifts; for they abounded, and were enriched with variety of all gifts, 1 Cor. •. […]. But yet that which the Apostle calleth the Church of Corinth, […] the whole Church was no larger, then was wont to meet together ⟨p. 47⟩in one place, one congregation, 1 Corinth. 14.23.

Ans. No such thing appeareth from the story of the Church of Corinth, neither in the Acts (

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