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…

For the second, Let it not seem a paradox that a Ministerial Doctrinal Authority ⟨image 6⟩should be found severed from that power of Excommunication, to second it, if not obeyed. Every Minister and Pastor hath in himself, alone, a Ministerial Doctrinal authority over the whole Church that is his charge, and every person in it, to instruct, rebuke, exhort with all authority: By reason of which those under him are bound to obey him in the Lord, not only vi Materiae by virtue of the matter of the commands, in that they are the commands of Christ (for so he should speak with no more authority then any other man, yea a Child, who speaking a truth out of the word, should lead us, as the prophet speaks;) But further, by reason of that Ministerial authority which Christ hath endowed him withal, he is to be looked at by them as an Ordinance of His, over them and towards them: And yet he alone hath not the authority of Excommunication in him, to enforce his Doctrine if any do gainsay it: Neither therefore is this authority (as in him considered) to be judged vain and fruitless and ineffectual, to draw men to obedience.

For the second, Let it not seeme a paradoxe that a Ministeriall Doctrinall Authority ⟨image 6⟩should be found severed from that power of Excommunication, to second it, if not obeyed. Every Minister and Pastour hath in himselfe, alone, a Ministeriall Doctrinall authority over the whole Church that is his charge, and every person in it, to instruct, rebuke, exhort with all authority: By reason of which those under him are bound to obey him in the Lord, not only vi Materiae by vertue of the matter of the commands, in that they are the commands of Christ (for so he should speake with no more authority then any other man, yea a Child, who speaking a truth out of the word, should leade us, as the prophet speakes;) But further, by reason of that Ministeriall authority which Christ hath endowed him withall, he is to be look't at by them as an Ordinance of His, over them and towards them: And yet he alone hath not the authority of Excommunication in him, to inforce his Doctrine if any doe gainesay it: Neither therefore is this authority (as in him considered) to be judged vaine and fruitlesse and ineffectuall, to draw men to obedience.