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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. II. Of the Distribution of the Keys, and their power, or of the several sorts thereof.
CHAP. II. Of the Distribution of the Keys, and their power, or of the severall sorts thereof.
The ordinary Distribution of the keys is wont to be thus delivered. There is clavis 1. Scientiae, A key of knowledge, and a clavis 2. Potestatis, key of power: and the key ⟨p. 6⟩of power is 1. Ordinis, Either a key of order, or a key of 2. Jurisdictionis, Jurisdiction.
THe ordinary Distribution of the keys is wont to be thus delivered. There is clavis 1. Scientiae, A key of knowledge, and a clavis 2. Potestatis, key of power: and the key ⟨p. 6⟩of power is 1. Ordinis, Either a key of order, or a key of 2. Jurisdictionis, Jurisdiction.
This distribution though it go for current both amongst Protestants and Papists, yet we crave leave to express, what in it doth not fully satisfy us. Four things in it seem defective to us: 1. That any key of the kingdom of heaven should be left without power. For here in this distribution, the key of knowledge is contradistinguished from a key of power.
This distribution though it goe for current both amongst Protestants and Papists, yet wee crave leave to expresse, what in it doth not fully satisfie us. Foure things in it seeme defective to us: 1. That any key of the kingdome of heaven should be left without power. For here in this distribution, the key of knowledge is contradistinguished from a key of power.