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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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Answ. 1 Our meaning is plain in the second sense, as may appear by the reasons alleged against any such universal Church, as instituted and political, wherein the seals are dispensed, which reasons you answer not, but grant there is no such Catholic Church in our sense, pag. 21. And if no such Church wherein the seals are administered, as we proved, then the cause it self is yielded, and the seals must belong to particular Churches.
Answ. 1 Our meaning is plain in the second sense, as may appear by the reasons alledged against any such universall Church, as instituted and politicall, wherein the seales are dispensed, which reasons you answer not, but grant there is no such Catholick Church in our sense, pag. 21. And if no such Church wherein the seales are administred, as we proved, then the cause it self is yeelded, and the seales must belong to particular Churches.
2. Seeing the main hinge of this question turns upon this point, to what Church the administration and participation of the seals belong, we shall a little further open our selves in this point. And because we affect and study peace with truth; we shall freely acknowledge,
2. Seeing the main hinge of this question turns upon this point, to what Church the administration and participation of the seals belong, wee shall a little further open our selves in this point. And because we affect and study peace with truth; we shall freely acknowledge,
First, that as there is an invisible Church and Body of Christ, consisting of all the elect, effectually called throughout the world in all ages of it, the whole family in heaven and earth: so unto Jesus Christ, all the visible believers and Churches of the world, are as one body to him, he governing, protecting, instructing all as his visible body.