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…And which is a third inconvenience, The practice of this power of the keys only by a Synod of Presbyters, still keepeth the Church as under nonage, as if they were not grown up to the full fruition of the just liberty of their riper yeers in the dayes of the Gospel.…
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