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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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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.
3 In the conversion of Samaria, although so great a work is declared in so few words in one verse, Act. 8, 12. yet the text puts a manifest distinction of Philips doctrine between the things of the Kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ: which plainly enough showeth, that they taught the observing of the order of the Kingdom of Christ, as well as the Doctrine of the name of Christ, the object of saving faith. And this they received by faith, and professed before they were baptized.
3 In the conversion of Samaria, although so great a work is declared in so few words in one verse, Act. 8, 12. yet the text puts a manifest distinction of Philips doctrine between the things of the Kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ: which plainly enough sheweth, that they taught the observing of the order of the Kingdom of Christ, as well as the Doctrine of the name of Christ, the object of saving faith. And this they received by faith, and professed before they were baptized.