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Chapter 18.—The Keys Given to the
Church.
17. He has given, therefore, the
keys to His Church, that whatsoever it should bind on earth might
be bound in heaven, and whatsoever it should loose on earth might
be loosed in heaven;1730
| 1730 Compare
Matt. xvi. 19 with xviii. 18. | that is to say, that whosoever in
the Church should not believe that his sins are remitted, they
should not be remitted to him; but that whosoever should believe
and should repent, and turn from his sins, should be saved by the
same faith and repentance on the ground of which he is received
into the bosom of the Church. For he who does not believe that
his sins can be pardoned, falls into despair, and becomes worse as
if no greater good remained for him than to be evil, when he has
ceased to have faith in the results of his own
repentance.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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