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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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2 When the holy Ghost, vers. 41. declareth their baptizing, he records withal their adding to them, the latter being an exegesis of the former, and that the same day, as being performed at the same time; and indeed when a convert publicly professeth his faith in Christ, is it not as easily done, to receive▪ him to a particular visible Church, as into the Catholic before Baptism; but first to baptize them, and then the same day to add or join them to the Church, is altogether unprobable. And that this adding was to a particular Church, is sufficiently proved before.
2 When the holy Ghost, vers. 41. declareth their baptizing, he records withall their adding to them, the latter being an exegesis of the former, and that the same day, as being performed at the same time; and indeed when a convert publickly professeth his faith in Christ, is it not as easily done, to receive▪ him to a particular visible Church, as into the Catholick before Baptism; but first to baptize them, and then the same day to add or joyn them to the Church, is altogether unprobable. And that this adding was to a particular Church, is sufficiently proved before.
The next place you may note, is Acts 5. 14. where the Holy Ghost omitting the baptizing of those believers, yet speaks of their adding to the Lord, as if the one implied, the other; and that their adding to the Lord, was by their joining to the Church, is evident by the opposition between verse 13 & 14 Of the rest durst no man join himself to them, but believers were the more added to the Lord.
The next place you may note, is Acts 5. 14. where the Holy Ghost omitting the baptizing of those beleevers, yet speaks of their adding to the Lord, as if the one implyed, the other; and that their adding to the Lord, was by their joyning to the Church, is evident by the opposition between verse 13 & 14 Of the rest durst no man joyn himself to them, but beleevers were the more added to the Lord.