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…

Name: The keys of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word…
Author: John Cotton

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 ...

John Cotton 1584–1652London: printed by M. Simmons for Henry Overton, 1644

[12], 59 p. · 31k words · Wing C6437

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Of the Keys of the Kingdom of HEAVEN, and the Power thereof; accor… › Chapter 4: Of the subject to whom the key of Church privilege, power, or Liberty is given.Of the Keys of the Kingdome of HEAVEN, and the Power thereof; accor… › Chapter 4: Of the subject to whom the key of Church priviledge, power, or Liberty is given.

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.

[ Earlier:81–96 of 271

:81p. 12¶1

1. The Church of Brethren hath the power, privileges and liberty to choose their officers. In the choice of an Apostle in to the place of Judas, the people went as far as humane vote and suffrage could go. Out of 120. persons, (v. 15.) they chose out, and presented two; out of which two (because an Apostle was to be designed immediately by God) God by lot chose one; And yet this one so chosen of God, [Greek or Hebrew], communibus omnium fuffragiis inter duodecim Apostolos allectus est, v. 26. was counted amongst the Apostles by the common suffrages of them all. And this place Cyprian presseth amongst others, to confirm the power, (that is [Greek or Hebrew], or privilege, or liberty) of the people in choosing or refusing their Ministers. Plebs Christiana (saith he) vel maxime potestatem habet, vel dignos sacerdotes eligendi, ves indignos recusandi, Epistol. 4. lib. 1.

1. The Church of Brethren hath the power, priviledges and liberty to choose their officers. In the choyce of an Apostle in to the place of Judas, the people went as far as humane vote and suffrage could go. Out of 120. persons, (v. 15.) they chose out, and presented two; out of which two (because an Apostle was to be designed immediately by God) God by lot chose one; And yet this one so chosen of God, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, communibus omnium fuffragiis inter duodecim Apostolos allectus est, v. 26. was counted amongst the Apostles by the common suffrages of them all. And this place Cyprian presseth amongst others, to confirm the power, (that is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or priviledge, or liberty) of the people in choosing or refusing their Ministers. Plebs Christiana (saith he) vel maxime potestatem habet, vel dignos sacerdotes eligendi, ves indignos recusandi, Epistol. 4. lib. 1.

:82p. 12–13

The like, or greater liberty is generally approved by the best of our Divines (studious of Reformation) from Act. 14.23. ⟨p. 13⟩

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