Whose soever sinnes ye remit] Matthew 18:18. This power is equally given to all the disciples, and their successors; first in respect of the doctrine of faith and repentance, as the Key of heaven committed to their Ministerie, which (according as it is received and obeyed) bindeth or looseth: if we repent and beleeve on earth, God forgiveth in heaven; and it is the Ministers office to preach the same in generall, and to applie it particularly, for the comfort of the truly penitent. Secondly, in respect of the power of excommunication and absolution, which is in discipline, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 1 Corinthians 5:5.