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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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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?
3 Yea further, what if this Catholic Church be in some respects of reason and order of nature also the first Church, and particular Churches, ortae?
3 Yea further, what if this Catholick Church be in some respects of reason and order of nature also the first Church, and particular Churches, ortae?
4 Yea further, what if it were gained also by such disputes, that the Keys and Officers, Ordinances, &c. be given firstly to this Catholic Church as to the object and end? We confess we do not see that what our Brethren contend for, is by all this obtained. For, first, if the universal number of visible believers be one totum aggregatum; yet it will be hard to prove that these are one instituted and political Society, that can enjoy visible communion together in visible Worship and government; and yet more hard to prove that by the institution of Christ, these all are to be actually governed as one totum.