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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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1▪ When we say the Ministry is limited to a particular Church, we do not so limit it to a Congregation under her own Presbytery, as to exclude from communion in the seals, many Congregations standing under one common Presbytery, as we have formerly said, we honour the reformed Churches of Christ Jesus, and the godly members thereof.
1▪ When we say the Ministery is limited to a particular Church, wee doe not so limit it to a Congregation under her owne Presbytery, as to exclude from communion in the seales, many Congregations standing under one common Presbytery, as wee have formerly said, we honour the reformed Churches of Christ Jesus, and the godly members thereof.
2▪ When we say the seals are limited to a particular Church or Congregation because the Ministry is so limited; our meaning is not of that congregation only whereof the Ministry is, but of any Congregation in general.
2▪ When wee say the seales are limited to a particular Church or Congregation because the Ministery is so limited; our meaning is not of that congregation onely whereof the Ministry is, but of any Congregation in generall.
3▪ When we say that where a Minister hath no power, he may not do an act of power, this is to be so understood, that he cannot perform such an act, as an Officer over them or unto them as to his proper flock, the office being (as we said) founded in the relation between the Church and the Officer, such a stated power as an Officer over his own flock, he hath not to those of other Congregations partaking in his own Church, or in any act of his Office in another Church; yet an occasional act of power, or precaria potestas, charitatively to put forth an act of