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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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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.
Reply. Advert. 5. You are generally (you say) loath to meddle with the affaires of other Churches, unlesse necessarily called thereunto: but when some upon request (as we suppose) of private friends, and others out of their zeal and forwardnesse have laboured to draw many to separate from the sacrament, because ministred in a stinted Liturgie, wee cannot apprehend any just ground of this Apologie; 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.
Answ. 1 What you impute to some, if justly, we grant will not allow this apology to be general for all; but how many that some is, or who we know not, it may be one or two; and if so, one or two exceptions will not much infringe a general rule, nor hinder this general apology.
Answ. 1 What you impute to some, if justly, wee grant will not allow this apologie to bee generall for all; but how many that some is, or who we know not, it may bee one or two; and if so, one or two exceptions will not much infringe a generall rule, nor hinder this generall apology.