Commonplace
Reformed & Puritan Library
…We grant much help may be had by sister Churches, and consultative Presbyteries, but that which takes away the exercise of the Keys in point of government from the church to whom Christ hath given it, doth not compleat it, but take away and destroy the power and liberty of it; for though the Pastor of a congregation may oft consent, yet the major part of the Presbytery must carry it, whether he consent or no, and therefore his power is swallowed up.…