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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. 2 You say if the book were an Idolothyte, yet latent offence doth not oblige.
Reply. 2 You say if the booke were an Idolothyte, yet latent offence doth not oblige.
Answ. The offence in this season, and as all things stand, cannot be latent, complaint is made of the offence taken by many, and therefore it is evident.
Answ. The offence in this season, and as all things stand, cannot bee latent, complaint is made of the offence taken by many, and therefore it is evident.
Reply. 3 The book so far as it is sound and good (by your confession) is no Idolothyte, nor taken out of the Mass book, in such sense as you object: ⟨p. 63⟩but rather the Mass and other prayers added to it; Popery is a sca• ▪ leaving to the Church, and many truths belonging to the Church, as her proper Legacy, were stolen, and heaped together in that Den; And why the true man may not challenge his goods where ever he find them, or the thief plead title to the true mans goods by prescription we know not.
Reply. 3 The booke so farre as it is sound and good (by your confession) is no Idolothyte, nor taken out of the Masse booke, in such sense as you object: ⟨p. 63⟩but rather the Masse and other prayers added to it; Popery is a sca• ▪ leaving to the Church, and many truths belonging to the Church, as her proper Legacy, were stolne, and heaped together in that Denne; And why the true man may not challenge his goods where ever hee finde them, or the theefe plead title to the true mans goods by prescription wee know not.