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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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It is the like case (in some measure) of particular churches, ⟨p. 58⟩yea, there is moreover a three-fold further inconvenience, which seemeth to us, to attend the translation of the power of particular churches in these ordinary administrations, into the hands of a Synod of Presbyters, commonly called a Classis.
It is the like case (in some measure) of particular churches, ⟨p. 58⟩yea, there is moreover a three-fold further inconvenience, which seemeth to us, to attend the translation of the power of particular churches in these ordinary admninistraons, into the hands of a Synod of Presbyters, commonly called a Classis.
1. The promise of Binding and Loosing, in way of Discipline, which Christ gave to every particular church (as hath been showed) is by this means not received, nor enjoined, nor practised by themselves immediately, but by their Deputies or Over-seers.
1. The promise of Binding and Loosing, in way of Discipline, which Christ gave to every particular church (as hath been shewed) is by this means not received, nor injoyned, nor practised by themselves immediately, but by their Deputies or Over-seers.
2. The same promise which was not given to Synods in acts of that nature (as hath been showed in the Chapter of Synods) but in acts of another kind, is hereby received, and enjoined, and practised by them, and by them only, which ought not to be.