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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 it is proved per parts, thus: 1 For the unity; are not all mankind oft in Scripture called the world? Joh. 3. 16▪ So God loved the world, that is, mankind in the world; which is one. So, frequently all mankind is called man, Gen. 6. 5, 6, 7. I will not strive with man, &c. yea, it is one kingdom, Psal. 145. 11, 12, 13. which (if we view the whole Psalm) must be understood of the general government of Gods providence over all the world, and especially mankind therein, 1 Chron. 29. 11, 12. &c. so that all is one kingdom, Acts 17. 26. God hath made of one blood all Nations; all are one blood, all have their bounds set by God, &c. that they might seek him, and feel after him; and as it is said for one Catholic Church, because it hath one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one Spirit, and are bound to love and pray one for the other, &c. so there is a like unity here, for the whole number of mankind hath one Lord and King over all, God who is King over all the earth called an head over all, 1 Chron. 29. 11. yea, Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, and head over all to the Church, Ephes. 1. 22. All have one Law, the Moral Law, the common rule of equity and righteousness whereby they are bound to walk towards God and one another, and this writ in the hearts of all; they have all one spirit of reason disposing them to society and mutual offices of love, one faculty of speaking to fit them for communion, one end to feel after God, Act. 17. and seek the good of the whole kind; all ought to love one another, desire and seek the welfare of the whole, and of one another, Isaiah 58. 7. yea, the Lord as a common head by the working of his common Providence, and out of his love of mankind, hath a common and constant influence into all, giving not only life and breath, and all good things,