Reformed & Puritan Library
And because these particular Congregations, both Elders and People, may disagree and miscarry, and abuse this power committed to them; He therefore, secondly, asserteth an association or communion of Churches, sending their Elders and Messengers into a Synod, (so hee purposely chooseth to stile those Assemblies of Elders which the Reformed…
John Cotton — The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, TO THE READER.