Reformed & Puritan Library
…healing dissentions in particular Congregations, and the like cases) committed a due and just measure of power, suited and proportioned to those ends; and furnished them, not only with ability to give counsell and advice, but further upon such occasions with a Ministeriall power and authority to determine, declare and injoyn such things as may tend to the reducing such Congregations to right order and peace.…
John Cotton — The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, TO THE READER.