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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. To go no further then the Text you quote, Hosea 4. 6, 7. Because thou hast despised knowledge I have rejected thee; properly the Text speaketh of the ten Tribes and the Priests amongst them, who worshipped the Calves, &c. whom the Lord threatens to reject; but neither this nor any other Text proves, that people joining in worship with such, do countenance them in their places.
Reply. To goe no further then the Text you quote, Hosea 4. 6, 7. Because thou hast despised knowledge I have rejected thee; properly the Text speaketh of the ten Tribes and the Priests amongst them, who worshipped the Calves, &c. whom the Lord threatens to reject; but neither this nor any other Text proves, that people joyning in worship with such, doe countenance them in their places.
Answ. The Text proves that God rejects such Priests as these are, (just like Jeroboam's Priests of the meanest of the people) and that was all it was alleged for, and that receiving such as Ministers doth countenance them in their places, was proved before. And if it be meant of Jeroboam's Priests, as you say, the approved practise of the godly in those days, 2 Chron. 11. 16. will well justify and lead us to reject and leave these also.
Answ. The Text proves that God rejects such Priests as these are, (just like Jeroboams Priests of the meanest of the people) and that was all it was alledged for, and that receiving such as Ministers doth countenance them in their places, was proved before. And if it bee meant of Jeroboams Priests, as you say, the approved practise of the godly in those dayes, 2 Chron. 11. 16. will well justifie and lead us to reject and leave these also.