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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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3. A third Corollary touching the independency of churches is this, That a church of a particular Congregation, consisting of Elders and Brethren, and walking in the truth and peace of the Gospel, as it is the First subject of all Church-power, needful to be exercised within it self, so it is independent upon any other (Church or Synod) for the exercise of the same.
3. A third Corollary touching the independency of churches is this, That a church of a particular Congregation, consisting of Elders and Brethren, and walking in the truth and peace of the Gospel, as it is the First subject of all Church-power, needfull to be exercised within it selfe, so it is independent upon any other (Church or Synod) for the exercise of the same.
That such a Church is the first subject of all church-power, hath been cleared above in the opening the third Proposition of the first subject of the power of the keys. And such a church being the first subject of church-power, is unavoidably independent upon any other church or body for the exercise thereof, for as hath been said afore, the first subject of any Accident or Adjunct, is independent upon any other either for the enjoying, or for the employing (the having or the using) of the same.
That such a Church is the first subject of all church-power, hath been cleered above in the opening the third Proposition of the first subject of the power of the keys. And such a church being the first subject of church-power, is unavoidably independent upon any other church or body for the exercise therof, for as hath been said afore, the first subject of any Accident or Adjunct, is independent upon any other either for the injoying, or for the imploying (the having or the using) of the same.