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…

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 (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 Conrinth. 14.23.

A fourth and last Argument to prove the Proposition, that every Church so furnished with officers (as hath been said) and so carried on in truth and peace, hath all Church power needful to be exercised within themselves, is taken from the guilt of offence, which lieth upon every Church, when any offence committed by their members lieth uncensured and unremoved. Christ hath something against the Church of Pergamus, for suffering Balaam and the Nicolaitans,