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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. Your third Proposition. That as you are very tender of imputing sin to those men that join in some select prayers read by an able and godly Minister, so on the other side, you are not without fear, l•st such joining may be found unlawful, unless it may appear, that the Ministers with whom they have communion, neither give scandal by reading them, nor give unlawful honour to a thing abused to Idolatry and Superstition, nor do suffer themselves to be sinfully limited in the reading of them.
Reply. Your third Proposition. That as you are very tender of imputing sinne to those men that joyne in some select prayers read by an able and godly Minister, so on the other side, you are not without feare, l•st such joyning may bee found unlawfull, unlesse it may appeare, that the Ministers with whom they have communion, neither give scandall by reading them, nor give unlawfull honour to a thing abused to Idolatry and Superstition, nor doe suffer themselves to bee sinfully limited in the reading of them.
1 We cannot conceive how you should imagine the practise of a godly Minister in reading some few select prayers to be scandalous, or offensive in the Congregations, when the people generally in their assemblies and in the whole land were persuaded of the lawfulness of that course, till now of late times some have been drawn away to separate; who yet by warrant of Scripture produce nothing of weight, to countenance that practise.
1 Wee cannot conceive how you should imagine the practise of a godly Minister in reading some few select prayers to bee scandalous, or offensive in the Congregations, when the people generally in their assemblies and in the whole land were perswaded of the lawfulnesse of that course, till now of late times some have beene drawne away to separate; who yet by warrant of Scripture produce nothing of weight, to countenance that practise.