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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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3. But after the Churches had enjoyed peace for some space of time, (wherein security usually makes insensible, and insensibleness formal) then indeed we read offset and imposed forms, which the rather prevailed in regard of the gross and palpable ignorance of a blind ministry, under a more learned Prelacy, and therefore it is well observed by Chemnitius that the third Council of Carthage decreed this; ut nemo in precibus, &c. viz. that no Minister in his prayers either names the Father for the Son or the Son for the Father, but when he comes to the Altar, to direct his prayers always to God the Father, and that no man use his own forms, till he have conferred and showed his forms to men more able, which we find sometime to be the Synod.
3. But after the Churches had enjoyed peace for some space of time, (wherein securitie usually makes insensible, and insenssblenesse formall) then indeed wee read ofset and imposed formes, which the rather prevailed in regard of the grosse and palpable ignorance of a blind ministry, under a more learned Prelacy, and therefore it is well observed by Chemnitius that the third Councell of Carthage decreed this; ut nemo in precibus, &c. viz. that no Minister in his prayers either names the Father for the Sonne or the Sonne for the Father, but when hee comes to the Altar, to direct his prayers alwayes to God the Father, and that no man use his owne formes, till hee have conferred and shewed his formes to men more able, which wee finde sometime to bee the Synod.
4 After these times they added the commemoration of Saints1 to their Prayers and Litanies, as appears from manifold instances, whereof take but this one imputed to Chrysostom: Sanctissimae Deiparae & semper Virginis Mariae, cum omnibus sanctis, memoriam agents, nos ipsos & omnem vitam nostram Christo Deo nostro commendamus. Which Litanies at first being used more seldom at some times of the year, afterwards grew into ordinary use, to every end of which the people added, Lord have mercy upon us, and Exaudi Domine, We beseech thee to hear us good Lord.