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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. Thirdly, If under the power of the Keys you comprehend preaching by Office, dispensing seals, &c. we deny the power of the Keys to belong to the Church, or community of the faithful, in those passages which speak of this power, the execution of this authority is given to them to whom the authority is committed.
Reply. Thirdly, If under the power of the Keys you comprehend preaching by Office, dispensing seals, &c. we deny the power of the Keys to belong to the Church, or community of the faithfull, in those passages which speak of this power, the execution of this authority is given to them to whom the authority is committed.
Answ. This of the power of the Keys, and the execution thereof, was only in the Answer touched by the way, to prevent the objection of some.
Answ. This of the power of the Keys, and the execution thereof, was onely in the Answer touched by the way, to prevent the objection of some.
1 It is well known that it is no new opinion to hold, that the Church is the first subject of the Keys, and to allege Matth. 16. & 18. for the same, and therefore might as well have been set in the margin; many ancient Divines, and our own Modern, as Fulke, Whittaker, Bath, Parker, and others, as Robinson, if there were not a desire to possess people with that conceit, that we go in new ways with the Separatists alone.
1 It is well known that it is no new opinion to hold, that the Church is the first subject of the Keys, and to alledge Matth. 16. & 18. for the same, and therefore might as well have been set in the margent; many ancient Divines, and our own Modern, as Fulke, Whittaker, Baine, Parker, and others, as Robinson, if there were not a desire to possesse people with that conceit, that we goe in new ways with the Separatists alone.