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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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Secondly, the Reasons against an universal Bishop are strong here, as that their office is not described in the Word, nor their power able to reach all Churches.
Secondly, the Reasons against an universall Bishop are strong here, as that their office is not described in the Word, nor their power able to reach all Churches.
If it be said, that the Catholic church can choose her Pastors in the parts or particular Societies, which are Pastors of the Catholic church, though not Catholic Pastors of the Catholic church.
If it be said, that the Catholick church can choose her Pastors in the parts or particular Societies, which are Pastors of the Catholick church, though not Catholick Pastors of the Catholick church.
Answ. If this be meant of the particular Churches choosing Pastors over themselves, who are in some respects for the good of the whole, (as being parts partium, and so parts totius▪ ) then they come to our hand, for thus it appears that there is no Catholic totum, that is the subject of officers but in its parts.
Answ. If this be meant of the particular Churches choosing Pastors over themselves, who are in some respects for the good of the whole, (as being partes partium, and so partes totius▪ ) then they come to our hand, for thus it appears that there is no Catholick totum, that is the subject of officers but in its parts.