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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 If all the godly Ministers would join as one man, and take unto them the zeal of John Bap. thundering out the direful wrath of God against the pride, vanity, luxury, profaneness, and late swarms of monstrous errors, (the usual tares accompanying Reformation) and other sins of ⟨p. 20⟩the time, to lay all level before the Lord; and with holy Calvin, resolve to suffer their hands to be cut off rather, then to deliver that holy seal of grace to the openly wicked and impenitent sinner; how would the Lord go out with his servants, and cut down sin by the sharp sword of1 his Word, and severity of Discipline, if all joined together? Whereas we fear sin and profaneness will out-stare all godly Pastors, when they stand so much divided.
2 If all the godly Ministers would joyne as one man, and take unto them the zeale of John Bap. thundering out the direfull wrath of God against the pride, vanity, luxury, prophanenesse, and late swarmes of monstrous errors, (the usuall tares accompanying Reformation) and other sinnes of ⟨p. 20⟩the time, to lay all levell before the Lord; and with holy Calvin, resolve to suffer their hands to bee cut off rather, then to deliver that holy seale of grace to the openly wicked and impenitent sinner; how would the Lord goe out with his servants, and cut downe sin by the sharpe sword of1 his Word, and severity of Discipline, if all joyned together? Whereas we feare sin and prophanenesse will out-stare all godly Pastors, when they stand so much divided.
- 1Vid. Pe•. Mart. Loc. Com. de Excom.Ʋid. Pe•. Mart. Loc. Com. de Excom.