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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. The reasons whereby the ancient Churches condemned the Donatists and Catharists for their voluntary and seditious separations, and the modern Churches condemn the Anabaptists for their renting from the body of Christ, will hold against separation from the Prayers of the Congregation, because they are read by an ungodly Minister.
Reply. The reasons whereby the ancient Churches condemned the Donatists and Catharists for their voluntary and seditious separations, and the moderne Churches condemne the Anabaptists for their renting from the body of Christ, will hold against separation from the Prayers of the Congregation, because they are read by an ungodly Minister.
We deny that we teach or hold such separation, because read by an ungodly Minister, as is sufficiently showed before; but what ⟨p. 52⟩we speak is against conformity to and communion with the corruptions of the Liturgy especially used by an unable as well as ungodly Minister, and therefore the arguments mentioned will hold against our proposition, just as the accusations and imputations of Donatism, Puritanism, Anabaptism, which the Prelates cast upon all Non-conformists and men studious of reformation, will hold and fasten upon them, which is nothing at all.
Wee deny that wee teach or hold such separation, because read by an ungodly Minister, as is sufficiently shewed before; but what ⟨p. 52⟩we speak is against conformitie to and communion with the corruptions of the Liturgie especially used by an unable as well as ungodly Minister, and therefore the arguments mentioned will hold against our proposition, just as the accusations and imputations of Donatisme, Puritanisme, Anabaptisme, which the Prelates cast upon all Non-conformists and men studious of reformation, will hold and fasten upon them, which is nothing at all.