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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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In a word, Apostles, Prophets, &c. were given to, and set in the mystical body of Christ, as the chief object and end for whose sake and good, they were intentionally ordained of Christ, but not set in it as one organical body, for the actual and immediate administration of the visible ordinances of Christ to it, but thus to it, as gathered into such Church societies as the Lord hath instituted for that end, and in this sense we agree with learned Mr. Rutherford libro of the right of Presbyt. pag. 291.
In a word, Apostles, Prophets, &c. were given to, and set in the mysticall body of Christ, as the chief object and end for whose sake and good, they were intentionally ordained of Christ, but not set in it as one organicall body, for the actuall and immediate administration of the visible ordinances of Christ to it, but thus to it, as gathered into such Church societies as the Lord hath instituted for that end, and in this sense we agree with learned Mr. Rutherford libro of the right of Presbyt. pag. 291.
Ask (saith he) to what end, and to what first principal subject hath the Lord given reason, and the faculty to discourse? Is it to Peter, John, &c. as to the first subject, and to them as for their good? No, no, it is to, and for the race of mankind. The case is just so here, 1 Cor. 12. 28. God hath set Apostles, &c.
Ask (saith he) to what end, and to what first principall subject hath the Lord given reason, and the faculty to discourse? Is it to Peter, John, &c. as to the first subject, and to them as for their good? No, no, it is to, and for the race of mankind. The case is just so here, 1 Cor. 12. 28. God hath set Apostles, &c.