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A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible…A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible…
A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible church. In answer to the reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Ball. By Thomas Shepherd, sometimes fellow of Emanuel-College in Cambridge, and late pastor of Cambridge in New-England.A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible church. In answer to the reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Ball. By Thomas Shephard, sometimes fellow of Emanuel-Colledge in Cambridge, and late pastour of Cambridge in New-England.
London: printed by E. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1652
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if there were never an ill word or sentence in all the Prayers, yet to appoint it to be used, or to use it, as the Papists did their Matins and Evensong, as a fit service to God, though the words be good, yet the use is naught. But if this seem too sharp, hear what—a late godly and learned1 Writer speaks, Rejicimus ill as precum, cultusque publici formulas, quae tyrannide quâdam, conscientiis hominum, ut •ultus divini parts essentials impo••ntur; quamvis quoad materiam sunt legitime dispositae, quoad formam & modum tamen quo inducuntur, illegitima crudelit•tis instrumenta fiunt, & praetextus improbae malitiae & occasions violentae tyrannidis in dignissimos & optimos Ecclesiae filios.
if there were never an ill word or sentence in all the Prayers, yet to appoint it to bee used, or to use it, as the Papists did their Mattens and Evensong, as a fit service to God, though the words bee good, yet the use is naught. But if this seem too sharpe, heare what—a late godly and learned1 Writer speakes, Rejicimus ill as precum, cultusque publici formulas, quae tyrannide quâdam, conscientiis hominum, ut •ultus divini partes essentiales impo••ntur; quamvis quoad materiam sunt legitime dispositae, quoad formam & modum tamen quo inducuntur, illegitima crudelit•tis instrumenta fiunt, & praetextus improbae malitiae & occasiones violentae tyrannidis in dignissimos & optimos Ecclesiae filios.
- 1G. Apol. cap. 7. Q. 2.
Reply. Advert. 5. You are generally (you say) loath to meddle with the affairs of other Churches, unless necessarily called thereunto: but when some upon request (as we suppose) of private friends, and others out of their zeal and forwardness have laboured to draw many to separate from the sacrament, because ministered in a stinted Liturgy, we cannot apprehend any just ground of this Apology; the rent is wide, and some brethren bad their hands deep therein, which made u crave your judgements and the reasons thereof, to make up the breach.