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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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Ans. To which we answer; 1 All the Catholic church and guides thereof had no power so to do, no more then a particular church, being a case reserved to Christ himself, else Pauls argument to prove his Apostleship had not been strong; because he was not called by man, but by Christ himself, and had seen the Lord, &c. Gal. 1. 1. 1 Cor. 9. 1. 2 The act of the Church was only a preparatory act thereunto with an after consent: the election was properly done immediately by a lot, and what was done might as well be done in the first particular Church guided by the infallible spirit of the Apostles, as by the Catholic Church it self.
Ans. To which we answer; 1 All the Catholick church and guides thereof had no power so to do, no more then a particular church, being a case reserved to Christ himself, else Pauls argument to prove his Apostleship had not been strong; because he was not called by man, but by Christ himself, and had seen the Lord, &c. Gal. 1. 1. 1 Cor. 9. 1. 2 The act of the Church was onely a preparatory act thereunto with an after consent: the election was properly done immediately by a lot, and what was done might as well be done in the first particular Church guided by the infallible spirit of the Apostles, as by the Catholick Church it self.
Object. Secondly, it is objected, Many of these were men of Galilee, which by their habitation could not pertain to the Church in Jerusalem.
Answ. True, the Apostles and others were of Galilee, but they had forsaken all to follow Christ, and were commanded by Christ to remain a time at Jerusalem, and then to go forth to Samaria, Judea, and the utmost parts of the earth,