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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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But to come more near to the case it self, we shall endeavour to clear two things:
1. That there is no Catholic political Church society instituted by Christ, to which the actual administration and participation of Church government and communion in the instituted ordinances of Christ, is given as to the first subject thereof.
1. That there is no Catholick politicall Church society instituted by Christ, to which the actuall administration and participation of Church government and communion in the instituted ordinances of Christ, is given as to the first subject thereof.
2. That the true form of all Church societies instituted by Christ, to which he hath given the actual administration and immediate participation of Church government, and all other instituted ordinances, as the subject thereof, is only Congregational.
2. That the true form of all Church societies instituted by Christ, to which he hath given the actuall administration and immediate participation of Church government, and all other instituted ordinances, as the subject thereof, is onely Congregationall.