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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[ Earlier:250–265 of 271

:250p. 51¶3

3. There is a third sort of things which concern the civill peace, wherein the Church is not to refuse subjection to the Civill Magistrate, in the exercise of some public spiritual administrations, which may advance and help forward the public good of Civill State according to God. In time of war, or pestilence, or any public calamity or danger lying upon a Common-wealth, the Magistrate may lawfully proclaim a Fast as Jehoshaphat did, 2 Chron. 20.3. and the Churches ought not to neglect such an administration, upon such a just occasion. Neither doth it impeach the power of the Church to call a Fast, when themselves see God calling them to public humiliation. For as Jehoshaphat called a Fast: so the Prophet Joel stirreth up the Priests to call a Fast in time of a famine threatening the want of holy Sacrifices, Joel 1.13, 14.

3. There is a third sort of things which concern the civill peace, wherein the Church is not to refuse subjection to the Civill Magistrate, in the exercise of some publick spirituall administrations, which may advance and help forward the publick good of Civill State according to God. In time of warre, or pestilence, or any publick calamitie or danger lying upon a Common-wealth, the Magistrate may lawfully proclaime a Fast as Iehosaphat did, 2 Chron. 20.3. and the Churches ought not to neglect such an administration, upon such a just occasion. Neither doth it impeach the power of the Church to call a Fast, when themselves see God calling them to publick humiliation. For as Iehosaphat called a Fast: so the Prophet Joel stirreth up the Priests to call a Fast in time of a famine threatning the want of holy Sacrifices, Ioel 1.13, 14.

:251p. 51–52

It may fall out also, that in undertaking a war, or in making a league with a foreign State, there may arise such cases of conscience, as may require the consultation of a Synod. In which case, or the like, if the Magistrate call for a Synod, the Churches are to yield him ready subjection herein in the Lord. Jehoshaphat though he

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