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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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Thirdly and lastly, when the Church is called One, the only one of her Mother; though it's true she is one, it seems rather to set out her excellency as rare, and but one, then her unity: and so the other descriptions all tend to set forth her beauty in the eye and esteem of Christ; neither is it any thing that the Church is compared to an Army terrible with banners, for in the same Chap. vers. the last, she is compared to the company of Mahanaim, or two Armies, (which is all one) for the company of Mahanaim consisted of two Armies, Gen. 32. 1, 2, 3. where Jacobs host meeting an host of Angels, he calls the place Mahanaim, or, two Hosts; and therefore we may as well say the Catholic church is terrible, with two Armies of Banners, as one.
Thirdly and lastly, when the Church is called One, the onely one of her Mother; though it's true she is one, it seems rather to set out her excellency as rare, and but one, then her unity: and so the other descriptions all tend to set forth her beauty in the eye and esteem of Christ; neither is it any thing that the Church is compared to an Army terrible with banners, for in the same Chap. vers. the last, she is compared to the company of Mahanaim, or two Armies, (which is all one) for the company of Mahanaim consisted of two Armies, Gen. 32. 1, 2, 3. where Jacobs host meeting an host of Angels, he calls the place Mahanaim, or, two Hosts; and therefore we may as well say the Catholick church is terrible, with two Armies of Banners, as one.
Answ. A second and chief Scripture we meet withal in divers Authors is 1 Cor. 12. 12, 13. &c. Whence the reason stands thus: That church wherein Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, &c. are set, is an organical Church.
Answ. A second and chief Scripture we meet withall in divers Authors is