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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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Argum. 1. First, the seals and other Church-ordinances must either belong to the Catholic church as such, or to the particular Church: but these cannot belong to the Catholic in actual dispensation whereof we now speak: Ergo. For that Church which is uncapable of actual dispensation of seals, censures, &c. is uncapable of the participation thereof in an orderly and ordinary way; But the Catholic number of visible believers as Catholic, and out of particular Societies, are not capable of dispensing the same; Ergo.
Argum. 1. First, the seals and other Church-ordinances must either belong to the Catholick church as such, or to the particular Church: but these cannot belong to the Catholick in actuall dispensation whereof we now speak: Ergo. For that Church which is uncapable of actuall dispensation of seales, censures, &c. is uncapable of the participation thereof in an orderly and ordinary way; But the Catholick number of visible beleevers as Catholick, and out of particular Societies, are not capable of dispensing the same; Ergo.
The Proposition is evident, for it cannot be showed that any Church in the New Testament was ever capable of participating in seals, that was not capable of dispensing them, at least not having a next power to elect Officers to do it.
The Proposition is evident, for it cannot be shewed that any Church in the New Testament was ever capable of participating in seals, that was not capable of dispensing them, at least not having a next power to elect Officers to do it.
The Assumption is evident from what hath been proved, that it is no political Body (the sole subject of Church administrations) neither in the whole, nor in the parts as existing out of Congregations.