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It is the like case (in some measure) of particular churches, yea, there is moreover a three-fold further inconvenience, which seemeth to us, to attend the translation of the power of particular churches in these ordinary admninistraons, into the hands of a Synod of Presbyters, commonly called a Classis. 1. The promise of Binding and Loosing, in…
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. 57