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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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Answ. 1 Theologia Symbolica non est argumentativa, except it can be made clear that the parable is applied according to the true scope of it, and no further, which here is very hard to evince: we know the whole Book of the Canticles is variously applied by good Interpreters, Brightman (none of the meanest in this kind of1 Scriptures) applies this place to the church of Geneva, and the times of purer Churches to arise after it, which are said to be terrible as an Army with Banners; not in respect of Discipline, but in respect of warlike power, whereby that state of the church shall defend it self.
Answ. 1 Theologia Symbolica non est argumentativa, except it can be made clear that the parable is applyed according to the true scope of it, and no further, which here is very hard to evince: we know the whole Book of the Canticles is variously applyed by good Interpreters, Brightman (none of the meanest in this kinde of1 Scriptures) applyes this place to the church of Geneva, and the times of purer Churches to arise after it, which are said to be terrible as an Army with Banners; not in respect of Discipline, but in respect of warlike power, whereby that state of the church shall defend it self.
- 1Vid. Brightm. An. in Loc.
2 But suppose that it is a description of the catholic church visible, yet it cannot be a sufficient argument that it is one Ministerial church: For, first, the catholic church is the same in all ages, and therefore by this reason it was a catholic Ministerial body, as well in the days from Adam to Abraham, &c. as in the New Testament▪ Secondly, by this argument we may prove Christ ⟨p. 95⟩the head and husband of the church to be an organical body, as he is the Head of the Church, for