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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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Lastly, though the original had been good (which yet is contrary) we may answer in the words of Peter Martyr, to such as did plead for a lawful presence at Mass, because the original1 was good; who answers thus: In •isce re•us non •rigo, &c. In ⟨p. 67⟩these matters, not the Original, but the Nature is to be considered; for the brazen Serpent had its original from God, and was honoured with miraculous works: yet when abused, Piis hominibus redditus est detestabilis, it became (most) loathsome to godly men.
Lastly, though the originall had been good (which yet is contrary) we may answer in the words of Peter Martyr, to such as did plead for a lawfull presence at Masse, because the originall1 was good; who answers thus: In •isce re•us non •rigo, &c. In ⟨p. 67⟩these matters, not the Originall, but the Nature is to be considered; for the brasen Serpent had its originall from God, and was honored with miraculous works: yet when abused, Piis hominibus redditus est detestabilis, it became (most) loathsome to godly men.
- 1Pet. Mart. loc. com. de Idol.
Reply. It is no hard ta•k to show, that our Service-book was reformed in most things, according to the purest Liturgies which were in use in the Church, long before the Mass was heard of in the world. And if that could not be showed, yet forms of speech generally taken (we speak not of this or that special word or phrase) is no more defiled by Idolatry, then the light, air, or place where Idolatry is committed, &c.