BAILLIE. COTTON'S "KEYS."-" SION'S VIRGINS."
Page 254.-Finesse exposed-Again-Baillie's report of certain proceedings; and
his apprehension of the Independents' power in the Assembly-T. Goodwin
opposes the Directory-Baillie plots with Spang-Consternation produced
by the Apologetical Narration-Artifice resorted to-Expedients regarding
Ordination They fail - Assembly heat-Independents, unmanageable-
Aspect of Public affairs-Title of Cotton's treatise on the "Keys"- The
Power of, claimed by the Publishers, for the right heirs-The Key of Know-
ledge, its effects-Too much Power claimed for the People-Equitable
adjustment of it-As in Commonwealths-The will of Christ imagined-
Cotton's distribution of Church-power, set out-His scheme, or theory-
Asserted to be the very "Middle-way" of the Apologists-This coincidence
remarked upon-Of Prophesying, under four cautions-And, of a formal
Synod-The People's interest, and the Elders' authority, illustrated-A com-
bination of Elders of several churches, why not intrusted with the Key of
Discipline-- Remark of the Publishers-Cotton's first chapter, What the