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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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It is an unsound body that wanteth strength to purge out his own vicious and malignant humours. And every Church of a particular congregation, being a body, even a body of Christ in it self, it were not for the honour of Christ, nor of his body, if when it were in a sound and athletic constitution, it should not have power to purge it self of its own superfluous and noisome humours.
It is an unsound body that wanteth strength to purge out his own vicious and malignant humours. And every Church of a particular congregation, being a bodie, even a body of Christ in it self, it were not for the honour of Christ, nor of his body, if when it were in a sound and athletick constitution, it should not have power to purge it self of its own superfluous and noysome humors.
IV. Proposition. In case a particular Church be disturbed with error or scandal, and the same maintained by a faction amongst them. Now a Synod of Churches, or of their messengers, is the first subject of that power and authority, whereby error is judicially convinced and condemned, the truth searched out, and determined, and the way of truth and peace declared and imposed upon the Churches.
IV. Proposition. In case a particular Church be disturbed with error or scandall, and the same maintained by a faction amongst them. Now a Synod of Churches, or of their messengers, is the first subject of that power and authoritie, whereby error is judicially convinced and condemned, the truth searched out, and determined, and the way of truth and peace declared and imposed upon the Churches.
The truth of this Proposition may appear by two Arguments.