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  • The authority of the church is from God. A metaphor taken from stewards who carry the keys:and here is set forth the power of the ministers of the world,as Isaiah 22:22 says,and that power is common to all ministers as Matthew 18:18 says,and therefore the ministry of the gopel may rightly be called the key of the kingdom of heaven. They are bound whose sins are retained;heaven is shut up against them,because they do not recieve Christ by faith:on the other hand,how happy are they to whom heaven is open,who embrace Christ and are delievered by Him and become fellow heirs with Him.What a Lord.

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