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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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1 Object. If any shall Object, the case is not alike, because in this Catholic Church were universal Officers set up, as the Apostles; not so in the world of mankind.
1 Object. If any shall Object, the case is not alike, because in this Catholick Church were universall Officers set up, as the Apostles; not so in the world of mankinde.
Ans. We say, these were but for a time in the first beginning for the setting up of the fir•• order in all the Churches; who being dead, there is none to succeed them in that respect of Catholic power.
Ans. We say, these were but for a time in the first beginning for the setting up of the fir•• order in all the Churches; who being dead, there is none to succeed them in that respect of Catholick power.
Secondly, we say likewise, at the first for a time Adam, and after Noah, had a general power over mankind, though after them none had the like, as it is here. And therefore the comparison still runs clear.
Secondly, we say likewise, at the first for a time Adam, and after Noah, had a generall power over mankinde, though after them none had the like, as it is here. And therefore the comparison stil runs clear.