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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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Propos. 2• This one entire body of Christ doth naturally fall under various notions and considerations, as (omitting others) when it is considered according to the adjuncts of visibility and invisibility, which are only adjuncts of the same Church, as is generally observed by Divines. In respect of the inward union which every such member hath with Christ the Head, by the Spirit of Christ, and by Faith, whereby we are united to him; it is called invisible, because this union is not visible to men. In respects of some visible fruits and manifestations of faith to the judgment of men, it is called visible; and hence though true believers be only univoce, and properly members of this body of Christ; yet to men that judge only by outward effects many hypocrites,1 equivoce and improperly are accounted of the Church; and hence the Scripture frequently speaks of visible Churches, as if they were all really Saints.
Propos. 2• This one entire body of Christ doth naturally fall under various notions and considerations, as (omitting others) when it is considered according to the adjuncts of visibility and invisibility, which are onely adjuncts of the same Church, as is generally observed by Divines. In respect of the inward union which every such member hath with Christ the Head, by the Spirit of Christ, and by Faith, whereby we are united to him; it is called invisible, because this union is not visible to men. In respects of some visible fruits and manifestations of faith to the judgment of men, it is called visible; and hence though true beleevers be onely univoce, and properly members of this body of Christ; yet to men that judge onely by outward effects many hypocrites,1 equivoce and improperly are accounted of the Church; and hence the Scripture frequently speaks of visible Churches, as if they were all really Saints.
- 1Whit. de Eccle.