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…

To conclude this Corollary, touching the subjection of churches to the civill State, in matters which concern the civill peace, this may not be omitted, that as the Church is subject to the sword of the Magistrate in things which concern the civill peace: so the Magistrate (if Christian) is subject to the keys of the Church, in matters which concern the peace of his conscience and the kingdom of heaven. Hence it is prophesied by Isaiah, that Kings and Queens, who are nursing fathers and mothers to the church, shall bow down to the Church, with their faces to the earth, Isai. 49.23. that is, they shall walk in professed subjection to the Ordinances of Christ in his Church. Hence also it is, that David prophesieth of a two-edged sword, (that is, the sword of the Spirit, the word of Christ) put into the hands of the Saints (who are by calling the Members of the Church) as to subdue the nations by the ministry of the Word, to the obedience of the Gospel (Psal. 149.6, 7.) so to bind their Kings with chains, and their Nobles with fetters of iron, to execute upon them the judgement written, (that is, written in the Word) Psal. 149. v. 8, 9.

To conclude this Corollary, touching the subjection of churches to the civill State, in matters which concern the civill peace, this may not be omitted, that as the Church is subject to the sword of the Magistrate in things which concern the civill peace: so the Magistrate (if Christian) is subject to the keys of the Church, in matters which concern the peace of his conscience and the kingdome of heaven. Hence it is prophesied by Isaiah, that Kings and Queens, who are nursing fathers and mothers to the church, shall bow down to the Church, with their faces to the earth, Isai. 49.23. that is, they shall walk in professed subjection to the Ordinances of Christ in his Church. Hence also it is, that David prophesieth of a two-edged sword, (that is, the sword of the Spirit, the word of Christ) put into the hands of the Saints (who are by calling the Members of the Church) as to subdue the nations by the ministery of the Word, to the obedience of the Gospel (Psal. 149.6, 7