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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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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.
2 If such brethren had a necessary Call to speak or write what they did, it hindereth not our apology at all: the desire of private friends, which you only suppose the moving cause, might be very weighty, the satisfying of tender consciences of near friends, or such as once depended upon our Ministry, in such a time of pressing humane inventions upon men, as that was; might be a very urgent call to interpose: but that any have endeavoured out of zeal to draw many to separation from the Sacrament, upon such a ground as you say; as we utterly dislike such fire upon the top of the house, so it must be proved, before we can call to mind or acknowledge any such thing.
2 If such brethren had a necessary Call to speake or write what they did, it hindreth not our apologie at all: the desire of private friends, which you onely suppose the moving cause, might bee very weighty, the satisfying of tender consciences of neare friends, or such as once depended upon our Ministery, in such a time of pressing humane inventions upon men, as that was; might bee a very urgent call to interpose: but that any have endeavoured out of zeale to draw many to separation from the Sacrament, upon such a ground as you say; as we utterly dislike such fire upon the top of the house, so it must be proved, before we can call to minde or acknowledge any such thing.