A93091:218
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. 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.
Reply. It is no hard ta•k to shew, that our Service-book was reformed in most things, according to the purest Liturgies which were in use in the Church, long before the Masse was heard of in the world. And if that could not be shewed, yet forms of speech generally taken (we speak not of this or that speciall word or phrase) is no more defiled by Idolatry, then the light, air, or place where Idolatry is committed, &c.
Answ. It is just cause of grief unto us, that this reverend Author should thus use the Prelates plea for Surplice and other Ceremonies, to justify this corrupt Liturgy; for these were before the Mass, and many other Idols of the Papists: and though a phrase o• word be not polluted by their use of it; yet a needless Ceremony, and so a devised Form of Worship, and a bundle of Ceremonious and corrupt Worships, must needs be polluted by the use of them; better to use the Forms of Turks then Papists, saith Cartw. supra.
Answ. It is just cause of grief unto us, that this reverend Author should thus use the Prelates plea for Surplice and other Ceremonies, to justifie this corrupt Liturgy; for these were before the Masse, and many other Idols of the Papists: and though a phrase o• word be not polluted by their use of it; yet a needless Ceremony, and so a devised Form of Worship, and a bundle of Ceremonious and corrupt Worships, must needs be polluted by the use of them; better to use the Forms of Turks then Papists, saith Cartw. supra.