A93091:472
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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CHAP. VII. Consid. 2.
Reply To the second Consideration of the Answer. The Proposition is granted, That the dispensation of the Sacraments both ordinary and extraordinary, is limited to the Ministry; but in that you allege for confirmation some things may be noted: 1 The first institution of Baptism is not contained in that passage, but confirmed, for the seals were instituted before his death, &c.
Reply To the second Consideration of the Answer. THe Proposition is granted, That the dispensation of the Sacraments both ordinary and extraordinary, is limited to the Ministery; but in that you alledge for confirmation some things may be noted: 1 The first institution of Baptism is not contained in that passage, but confirmed, for the seals were instituted before his death, &c.
Answ. The Proposition being granted, and the proof Mat. 28. 19. being (we doubt not) pertinent in the Authors own judgment, as ⟨p. 129⟩well as ours; Brotherly love might easily have passed over greater mistakes then the answer seems to have fallen into: for, by First institution here, we meant no more, then that it is the ordinance of Christ himself, instituted in that first time of all Divine ordinances. We were not so ignorant to think there was no use, and so no institution of Baptism before the death of Christ; and therefore this confutation might have been spared.