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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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3. Touching the maintenance of their Ministers, ver. 6, 7, 8. and beneficence to others, ver. 9, 10.
Touching the first, the censure of their corrupt teachers. 1 He layeth for the ground of it (that which himself gave for the ground of the excommunication of the incestuous Corinth, 1 Cor. 5.6.) A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. vers. 9. 2 He presumeth the Church will be of the same mind with him, and concur in the censure of him that troubled them with corrupt doctrine, v. 10. (from fellowship with which corrupt doctrine he cleareth himself, v. 11.) 3 He proceedeth to declare, what censure he wisheth might be dispensed against him, and the rest of those corrupt teachers. I would (saith he) they were even cut off that trouble you: cut off, to wit, by excommunication, ver. 12. Now lest it should be objected by the brethren of the Church: But what power have we to cut them off? The Apostle answereth, they have a power and liberty (to wit, to join with the sounder part of the Presbytery, in casting them out, or cutting them off:) For brethren (saith he) you are called unto liberty.
Touching the first, the censure of their corrupt teachers. 1 He layeth for the ground of it (that which himself gave for the ground of the excommunication of the incestuous Corinth, 1 Cor. 5.6.) A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. vers. 9. 2 He presumeth the Church will be of the same mind with him, and concur in the censure of him that troubled them with corrupt doctrine, v. 10. (from fellowship with which corrupt doctrine he cleareth himself, v. 11.) 3 He proceedeth to declare, what censure he wisheth might be dispensed against him, and the rest of those corrupt teachers. I would (saith he) they were even cut off that trouble you: cut off, to wit, by excommunication, ver. 12. Now lest it should be objected by the brethren of the Church: But what power have we to cut them off? The Apostle answereth, they have a power and libertie (to wit, to joyn with the sounder part of the Presbyterie, in casting them out, or cutting them off:) For brethren (saith he) you are called unto liberty.