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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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Fifthly, what you grant concerning Christ his warning his ⟨p. 49⟩Disciples to take heed of the leaven of the Scribes and Pharisees, no doubt he did the like, concerning the corruptions of the Priests in their administrations of Gods ordinances, and we doubt not, but you will acknowledge that the Prophets and Apostles1 did or ought to abstain from all actual communion with those corruptions, and the Lord Jesus out of question did abstain: which being so, we may retort this argument thus in regard of conformity to ceremonies, If it be not lawful to partake in the Ordinances of God, where we must actually join with such ceremonies, then Christ, the Prophets and Apostles must not have joined in any ordinance of God in several ages of the Church, when worse or as ill corruptions were admixed with that worship: But they never refused the ordinances of worship for such corruptions; Therefore we should not now for these ceremonies abstain; put case for kneeling at the Lords Supper, &c. If you please to solve this knot, the same answer will serve our turn as well.
Fifthly, what you grant concerning Christ his warning his ⟨p. 49⟩Disciples to take heed of the leaven of the Scribes and Pharisees, no doubt hee did the like, concerning the corruptions of the Priests in their administrations of Gods ordinances, and wee doubt not, but you will acknowledge that the Prophets and Apostles1 did or ought to abstaine from all actuall communion with those corruptions, and the Lord Jesus out of question did abstaine: which being so, wee may retort this argument thus in regard of conformitie to ceremonies, If it bee not lawfull to partake in the Ordinances of God, where wee must actually joyne with such ceremonies, then Christ, the Prophets and Apostles must not have joyned in any ordinance of God in severall ages of the Church, when worse or as ill corruptions were admixed with that worship: But they never refused the ordinances of worship for such corruptions; Therefore wee should not now for these ceremonies abstaine; put case for kneeling at the Lords Supper, &c. If you please to solve this knot, the same answer will serve our turne as well.