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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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Reply. Without question the number of believers at Antioch was not small, of which it is expressly said, That a great number believed, and that a great multitude were added to the Lord by the preaching of Barnabas, &c. and therefore we may think the Church rose to such a bigness as could not well assemble in one Congregation, Acts 11. 21. & 14. 27.
Reply. Without question the number of beleevers at Antioch was not small, of which it is expresly said, That a great number beleeved, and that a great multitude were added to the Lord by the preaching of Barnabas, &c. and therefore we may think the Church rose to such a bignesse as could not well assemble in one Congregation, Acts 11. 21. & 14. 27.
Answ. 1 In that place, Acts 11. 21. the great number that believed, was the fruit of all the scattered Christians at Phenice, Cyprus, and Antioch; for the hand of the Lord was with them all, and their whole success is summed up together, nothing said before of the other places.
Answ. 1 In that place, Acts 11. 21. the great number that beleeved, was the fruit of all the scattered Christians at Phenice, Cyprus, and Antioch; for the hand of the Lord was with them all, and their whole successe is summed up together, nothing said before of the other places.