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M. Hardinge.
The let,* 1.1 where by the whole Nature of man is shutte out of Heauen by the sinne of our Firste Parent, is taken a wait by the Passion of Christe. But because before that benefite be receiued. Hea∣uen yet remaineth shutte bothe for sinne Originall contracted, and sinne actual committed: wee haue neede of the Sacramentes, and Keies of the Churche.
The Holy Fathers for good considerations grounded vpon Scripture, haue diuided the Keies into the Keie of Order, and the Keie of Iurisdiction: And either of them into the Keie of Know∣ledge, whiche they call also the Keie of Discretion, and into the Keie of Power.
To these Defenders wee saie, that they confounde the Keies, and seme not to knowe, what the Keies are. Verely these be not onely the knowledge of the Scriptures, nor the Interpretation of the lawe, nor the VVorde of God, although these also doo open or shute the Kingedome of Heauen in their kinde, as Chrysostome, Tertullian, and Eusebius maye well saye: and not onely these, but also Miracles, and Plagues, and all other thinges, whiche prepare the will, or vnderstandinge of man, whereby hee maye receiue the benefite of those moste principall Keies, that nowe wee speake of.