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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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But to come more particularly unto the story it self, the Apostles first, and exemplary practi•• being the best interpreter of their commission, and of their ordinary proceeding therein; the first converts which the Apostles baptized after the visible kingdom of Christ was set up▪ were those in that famous place, Acts 2. 41. concerning whom observe, first; that the Apostle Peter not only preached unto them repentance and faith in the name of Christ, with promise of remission of sins, and that they should be baptized, but according to that commission, Mat. 28. with many other words he exhorted them, saying, Save your selves from this untoward generation, being the very scope of his exhortation; and this implies a gathering of themselves to the fellowship of the saints; and all this Word they gladly received before they were baptized.
But to come more particularly unto the story it self, the Apostles first, and exemplary practi•• being the best interpreter of their commission, and of their ordinary proceeding therein; the first converts which the Apostles baptized after the visible kingdom of Christ was set up▪ were those in that famous place, Acts 2. 41. concerning whom observe, first; that the Apostle Peter not onely preached unto them repentance and faith in the name of Christ, with promise of remission of sins, and that they should be baptized, but according to that commission, Mat. 28. with many other words he exhorted them, saying, Save your selves from this untoward generation, being the very scope of his exhortation; and this implies a gathering of themselves to the fellowship of the saints; and al this Word they gladly received before they were baptized.