A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...
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A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...
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Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
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Oxford :: Printed by H. Hall for T. Robinson,
1658.
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Cawdrey, Daniel, 1588-1664. -- Independency further proved to be a schism.
Cawdrey, Daniel, 1588-1664. -- Inconsistencie of the independent way.
Schism -- Early works to 1800.
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"A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34675.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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The 20thContradiction is thus Ex∣pressed.
20. It is gene∣rally asserted by them, that one Church hath not Power to Censure another.
20. A Synod hath Power to Deter∣mine, to withdraw Communion from them, if they cannot heale them, Keyes, pag. 24.
20. The sentence of non Communion denounced against whole Churches A∣polog. Narrat. p. 18, 19. If a Sen∣tence denounced it is a Censure.
Answer: To withdraw Communion from a church, is no more an Act of Power over a church, then it was to Joyne in Communion with them. Com∣munion and non-Communion are Acts of the same power: both of them Acts of priviledge or liberty. And if with∣drawing Communion be not an Act of censure, then to determine so to with∣draw, is no Act of an higher Nature.
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Though a Censure is a sentence denoun∣ced, yet every sentence denounced is not a Censure, unlesse it be Denounced by an higher power, then that of equalls. When the Ten Tribes denounced their Rejection of service to David's House (1 Kings 12. 16.) It was not a censure more then theirs, who solemnely Reje∣cted the Rule of Christ: we will not have this man to Rule over us, Luk. 19. 14.
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