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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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Propos.Proved, because there can be no instances given of any free Society, civill or sacred, that was under policy, but that it arose from combination.
How came Israel to be one National church, but by a National covenant? and that before it had Officers; or how comes any national, provincial, classical Church that are pleaded for to be such, but by some such combination? Why is this Church of this ⟨p. 92⟩Classis not of another but by combination? Secondly, in a political body, the whole hath power to order every part, but this power among persons that are free, is only by combination.
How came Israel to be one Nationall church, but by a National covenant? and that before it had Officers; or how comes any nationall, provinciall, classicall Church that are pleaded for to be such, but by some such combination? Why is this Church of this ⟨p. 92⟩Classis not of another but by combination? Secondly, in a politicall body, the whole hath power to order every part, but this power among persons that are free, is onely by combination.
Assump.Proved: first, because Christ never instituted that which is impossible, as this is, for the Catholic visible Church in every age so to do.
Assump.Proved: first, because Christ never instituted that which is impossible, as this is, for the Catholick visible Church in every age so to doe.