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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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This case stands not in tolerating faults in another (as the reply makes it) but in actual joining with the sins of another, ⟨p. 56⟩wherein he that joineth is involved, and therefore whether they be corruptions, that may be tolerated or not in another, yet if sins, they may not be practised and so joined in with another. And therefore the case you put of communion with any person obstinate in error, till he may be convinced, is nothing to this purpose. For we must not join with him in his error, no not an hour, though we may tolerate him a month.
This case stands not in tolerating faults in another (as the reply makes it) but in actuall joyning with the sinnes of another, ⟨p. 56⟩wherein hee that joyneth is involved, and therefore whether they bee corruptions, that may bee tolerated or not in another, yet if sinnes, they may not bee practised and so joyned in with another. And therefore the case you put of communion with any person obstinate in errour, till hee may bee convinced, is nothing to this purpose. For wee must not joyne with him in his error, no not an houre, though wee may tolerate him a moneth.
Reply. Hath not Christian wisdom and experience of humane frailties lessoned you (dear brethren) to bear one with another in matters of greater consequence, then any have, or can be objected truly against the form of prayer in use among us?
Reply. Hath not Christian wisedome and experience of humane frailties lessoned you (deare brethren) to beare one with another in matters of greater consequence, then any have, or can bee objected truely against the forme of prayer in use among us?