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Nor did they derive their liberty from a Synod of churches. For we found no foot-step in the pattern of Synods, Act. 15. that the Church of Antioch borrowed any of their liberties from the Synod at Jerusalem. They borrowed indeed light from them, and decrees, tending to the establishment of truth and peace. For upon the publishing of the decrees…
John Cotton — The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, Of the Keys of the Kingdome of HEAVEN, and the Power thereof; according to the WORD of… — CHAP. VII. Touching the first Subject of all the forementioned power…, p. 34