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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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CHAP. III.
3 Position. That the children of godly and approved Christians are not: to be baptized, until their Parents be set members of some particular Congregation. 4 That the Parents themselves, though of approved piety, are not to be received▪ to the Lords-supper, until they be admitted as set members.
3 Position. That the children of godly and approved Christians are not: to be baptized, untill their Parents be set members of some particular Congregation. 4 That the Parents themselves, though of approved piety, are not to be received▪ to the Lords-supper, untill they be admitted as set members.
Reply. What is here premised to prevent mistakes, doth seem more to raise, then to abate scruples. You refuse not all communion with all that are not Church-members, and so much they profess who formerly have gone for, and professed themselves Separatists from our assemblies; you do not appropriate these privileges of the seals only to members of your own Churches, &c. If you mean only that the Sacraments administered in other Churches be true for substance; it is no more then you will confess of Rome. If you deny not fellowship with them in the seals, and ⟨p. 70⟩