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 key of Order is the power whereby every member of the Church walketh orderly himself, according to his place in the Church, and helpeth his brethren, to walk orderly also.

It was that which the Apostles and Elders called upon Paul, so to carry himself before the Jews in the Temple, that he might make ⟨p. 8⟩it appear to all men that he walked orderly. (Act. 21.18.24.) Orderly, to wit, according to the orders of the Jewish Church, with whom he then conversed. And it was the commandment which Paul gave to the whole Church of Thessalonica, and to all the members of it, to withdraw themselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, 2 Thes. 3.6. This their withdrawing from him that walked disorderly, was the exercise of their key of order. And it was a like exercise of the same key of order, when he requireth the Brethren to warn the unruly, which is, (in the original) the same word, to admonish the disorderly: 1 Thes. 5.14. And this key of order (to wit, order understood in this sense) is common to all the members of the Church, whether Elders or brethren.

It was that which the Apostles and Elders called upon Paul, so to carrie himself before the Jews in the Temple, that he might make ⟨p. 8⟩it appear to all men that he walked orderly. (Act. 21.18.24.) Orderly, to wit, according to the orders of the Iewish Church, with whom he then conversed. And it was the commandment which Paul gave to the whole Church of Thessalonica, and to all the members of it, to withdraw themselves from every brother that walketh disorderly,