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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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CHAP. III.
2 Position. That it is not lawful to join in Prayer, or receive the Sacraments, where a stinted Liturgy is used: Or, as we conceive your meaning to be in this as in the former, &c. viz. where and when that stinted Liturgy is used.
2 Position. That it is not lawfull to joyne in Prayer, or receive the Sacraments, where a stinted Liturgie is used: Or, as wee conceive your meaning to bee in this as in the former, &c. viz. where and when that stinted Liturgie is used.
Reply. IF we mistake not your judgement and practise both, you have born witness against both that you call the rigid separation, and this more moderate also; and we humbly wish that the moderate do not degenerate into the rigid ere long; it is very strange if they take not great encouragement upon your grounds.
Reply. IF we mistake not your judgement and practise both, you have born witnesse against both that you call the rigid separation, and this more moderate also; and wee humbly wish that the moderate doe not degenerate into the rigid ere long; it is very strange if they take not great encouragement upon your grounds.