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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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The world hath been long troubled with the equivocation of the word [Church:] and therefore (as it is needful) we shall labour to set down our thoughts as distinctly and plainly as we can in certain Propositions that may be some ground of our discourse.
THe world hath been long troubled with the equivocation of the word [Church:] and therefore (as it is needfull) we shall labor to set down our thoughts as distinctly and plainly as we can in certain Propositions that may be some ground of our discourse.
Propos. 1. The true Church of God is the whole number of Elect and called ones out of the world to fellowship with Jesus Christ their Head, with whom they make up one mystical body, Ephes. 1. 23. This whole Church is of the same nature, and one in essence from the beginning of the world to the end; for this Church Christ laid down his life, Ephes. 5. 26. Joh. 10. 15. and therefore he adds, vers. 16. such as are not yet of his fold (actually) shall be brought into the same, viz. by effectual calling, that there may be one Shepherd and one sheepfold: whereby it appears that the whole fold of Christ to which he stands as one Shepherd, contains all his members and sheep to the end of the world, and it is one fold in relation to Christ that one Shepherd.
Propos. 1. The true Church of God is the whole number of Elect and called ones out of the world to fellowship with Jesus Christ their Head, with whom they make up one mysticall body, Ephes. 1. 23. This whole Church is of the same nature, and one in essence from the beginning of the world to the end; for this Church Christ laid down his life, Ephes. 5. 26.