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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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3 It is not said, that the Keys are immediately given to a particular Church abstractly, as a number of redeemed, but as consociated and politically combined: And in this respect that may be attributed to the part, a particular Congregation of redeemed ones, which cannot be attributed to the whole. Ex. gr. such a Congregation is combined, so is not the whole, nor can be; such a Church may choose a Pastor over it, but so cannot the whole; so a man may tell the particular Church, who may convene together, not so the whole.
Thus far (through the help of Christ) we have endeavoured to clear the first Point propounded concerning a Catholic instituted Church. We come now to prove the second Point, viz. That Jesus Christ hath instituted in the Gospel a particular Church ⟨p. 106⟩of one Congregation, in which, and unto which the actual and immediate dispensation and participation of all instituted Worship do regularly and ordinarily belong.
Thus far (through the helpe of Christ) we have endevoured to clear the first Point propounded concerning a Catholick instituted Church. We come now to prove the second Point, viz. That Jesus Christ hath instituted in the Gospel a particular Church ⟨p. 106⟩of one Congregation, in which, and unto which the actuall and immediate dispensation and participation of all instituted Worship doe regularly and ordinarily belong.
And here we shall show: 1 What such a particular Church is. 2 How the dispensation of Church power and privilege do belong unto it. For the first, we shall declare our selves in these Five Propositions.