A93091:407
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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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.
The Assumption is evident from what hath been proved, that it is no politicall Body (the sole subject of Church administrations) neither in the whole, nor in the parts as existing out of Congregations.
Argum. 2. If the members of the Catholic church be bound to join into particular Societies, that they may partake of seals, &c. then the seals are not to be administered immediately to them, for then they should have the end without the means.
Argum. 2. If the members of the Catholick church be bound to joyn into particular Societies, that they may partake of seals, &c. then the seals are not to be administred immediatly to them, for then they should have the end without the means.
But they are bound to join in such Societies for that end, for otherwise there is no necessity of erecting any particular Churches in the world; and so all the glory of Christ in this respect should be laid in the dust, and these particular temples destroyed, and thus a door of liberty is opened to many to live loosely without the care and watch, and communion of any particular Church in the world.
But they are bound to joyn in such Societies for that end, for otherwise there is no necessity of erecting any particular Churches in the world; and so all the glory of Christ in this respect should be laid in the dust, and these particular temples destroyed, and thus a door of liberty is opened to many to live loosely without the care and watch, and communion of any particular Church in the world.