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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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And therefore (with due respect to the Godly-learned be it spoken) we conceive many large disputes in this question fall short of the issue that is desired and intended; for what if it be granted: 1 That there is a Catholic visible Church, which in some respects of reason (as Mr. Ball saith) is one that having parts visibiles, is a totum visibile.
And therefore (with due respect to the Godly-learned be it spoken) we conceive many large disputes in this question fall short of the issue that is desired and intended; for what if it be granted: 1 That there is a Catholick visible Church, which in some respects of reason (as Mr. Ball saith) is one that having partes visibiles, is a totum visibile.
2. That the visible Church is not only a totum genericum, in relation to all the particular Congregations, as species specialissimae, ⟨p. 78⟩of a visible Church in general, (which respect of reason in some sense we freely consent unto) but also that it may fall under the notion of a totum integral, as some contend, (though we conceive in this notion, they are so entangled in their own logical principles, as that they cannot get out without breaking them, and flying to theological considerations) yet we say, what if that also be attained?
2. That the visible Church is not onely a totum genericum, in relation to all the particular Congregations, as species specialissimae, ⟨p. 78⟩of a visible Church in generall, (which respect of reason in some sense we freely consent unto) but also that it may fall under the notion of a totum integrale, as some contend, (though we conceive in this notion, they are so intangled in their own logicall principles, as that they cannot get out without breaking them, and flying to theologicall considerations) yet we say, what if that also be attained?