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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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Secondly, he objecteth that absurd manner of chopping and interrupting the prayers, of which Mr. Cartwright saith, That if any man should make such a supplication to a Prince, he would think him to make his supplication before he knew what to ask, or that he had forgotten some piece of his suit; or that he were1 distracted in his understanding. Much more might be added, but we have only touched this sore, and in the words of that learned and zealous Reformer, that it may appear, neither the opinion of that Book, nor the reasons against it, are so new or proper to the Separatists, as is pretended. Now what comfort can any godly conscience have to join in, or conform unto such a form of Worship as this is?
Secondly, hee objecteth that absurd manner of chopping and interrupting the prayers, of which Mr. Cartwright saith, That if any man should make such a supplication to a Prince, he would thinke him to make his supplication before hee knew what to ask, or that hee had forgotten some piece of his suit; or that he were1 distracted in his understanding. Much more might bee added, but wee have onely touched this sore, and in the words of that learned and zealous Reformer, that it may appeare, neither the opinion of that Booke, nor the reasons against it, are so new or proper to the Separatists, as is pretended. Now what comfort can anygodly conscience have to joyn in, or conform unto such a form of Worship as this is?
- 1Ibid. p. 138.
Further consider the administration of the Sacraments, according to the Book (as we speak still of joining in it) who knows not, that such must subject their children to that gross Idol of the cross, and see and approve the pollution of Gods Ordinances with the same: and at the Lords table join in that Idolatrous gesture of kneeling; and therefore how the godly can join lawfully in the whole, or such parts as those Idol-priests dispense, let all Non-conformists judge; and it is well known, how superstitiously precise such are, in pressing all conformity to every gesture and ceremony prescribed in their Book, which they so idolize, as they have good cause, being that which maintains them.