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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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where the rivers and fountains of waters (that is, the Priests and Jesuits, that convey the Religion of the Sea of Rome throughout the countries) are turned to blood, that is, have blood given them to drink, by the civill Magistrate.
where the rivers and fountains of waters (that is, the Priests and Iesuites, that conveigh the Religion of the Sea of Rome throughout the countreys) are turned to blood, that is, have blood given them to drink, by the civill Magistrate.
Nevertheless, though we willingly acknowledge a power in the Civill Magistrate, to establish and reform Religion, according to the Word of God: yet we would not be so understood, as if we judged it to belong to the civill power, to compel all men to come and sit down at the Lords table, or to enter into the communion of the Church, before they be in some measure prepared of God for such fellowship. For this is not a Reformation, but a Deformation of the Church, and is not according to the Word of God, but against it, as we shall show (God willing) in the sequel, when we come to speak of the disposition or qualification of Church-members.
Neverthelesse, though we willingly acknowledge a power in the Civill Magistrate, to establish and reform Religion, according to the Word of God: yet we would not be so understood, as if we judged it to belong to the civill power, to compell all men to come and sit down at the Lords table, or to enter into the communion of the Church, before they be in some measure prepared of God for such fellowship. For this is not a Reformation, but a Deformation of the Church, and is not according to the Word of God, but against it, as we shall show (God willing) in the sequell, when we come to speak of the disposition or qualification of Church-members.