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Of the subject to whom to the key of Church priviledge, power,
or Liberty is given.  THIS key is given to the Brethren of the
Church: for so saith the Apostle, in Gal. 5. 13. (in the place
quoted and opened before) Brethren, you have been called to
liberty. And indeed, as it is the εὖ εἶναι, ἐυεξία, &
ἐυπραξία of a Commonwealth, the right and due establishment
and ballancing of the liberties or priviledges of the people
(which is in a true sense, may be called a power) and the
authority of the Magistrate: so it is the safety of Church
estate, the right and due settling and ordering of the holy
power of the priviledges and liberties of the Brethren, and the
ministeriall authority of the Elders. The Gospel alloweth no
Church authority (or rule properly so called) to the Brethren,
but reserveth that wholly to the Elders and yet preventeth the
tyrannie and oligarchy, and exhorbitancy of the Elders, by the
large and firm establishment of the lib