A02990:302
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulness of a stinted liturgy and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys: tending to satisfy the doubtful, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The power of the keys given to the Apostles,1 was given to the church, intuitu ejusdem tanquam finis & totius. The flux of ecclesiastical authority from the church is two fold: per intuitum, as in them that be immediately called of Christ: & per interventum, as in them that are called mediately.
The power of the keyes given to the Apostles,1 was given to the church, intuitu ejusdem tanquam finis & totius. The flux of ecclesiasticall authority from the church is two fold: per intuitum, as in them that be immediately called of Christ: & per interventum, as in them that are called mediately.
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It is true,1 the Apostles were given to the church intuitu ejusdem tanquam finis, and the power they received was for the good of the whole: but this is not enough that power may be said to be received immediately by the church as the first receptacle of it, and from it derived unto others, but ⟨p. 245⟩this power must be in the community as the first subject from whom it cometh to the officers. As the power of seeing is not only given intuitu hominis as the end of it, and the totum to whom it agreeth,2 but is in homine as the first subject from whom it cometh to the eye.3 The Apostles and other governors were given of Christ for the church, as for the end; and all their authority was given unto them for the church, as for the whole: but the authority it self was immediately derived from Christ, and is not in the church as the immediate subject thereof. The authority of the Apostles and other guides was for the church, given for the good of the whole society, and so may be called the authority of the church: but the authority is not immediately in the church as the subject, nor derived from the church, but from Christ the King of the church. The authority of governors is given of Christ, for a gift to the church, but not for a gift absolute, that it may reside in the power of the whole church to whom it is given, but for a conditional gift, that it may be communicated to the governors themselves for the edification of the whole. It is one thing then to ask for what end or whose use the keys are given;