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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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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.
4. A fourth Corollary touching the independency of churches is, That a Church fallen into any offence (whether it be the whole church, or a strong party in it) is not independent in the exercise of church-power, but is subject both to the admonition of any other church, and to the determination and ⟨p. 54⟩judicial sentence of a Synod for direction into a way of truth and peace.
4. A fourth Corollary touching the independency of churches is, That a Church fallen into any offence (whether it be the whole church, or a strong party in it) is not independent in the exercise of church-power, but is subject both to the admonition of any other church, and to the determination and ⟨p. 54⟩judiciall sentence of a Synod for direction into a way of truth and peace.